TCH-Rob

Are you viewing by IP/~cPanel-name? If you bought the name from us and tols it at the time of signup that you would be hosting here then there is nothing you need to do. If not then I think this DNS tutorial for TCH registered domains may help.

Wildspices, Well, you have two programs to use free in your cPanel. AgoraCart and osCommerce, osCommerce is the most used by our members that I am aware of. You can search these forums to get plenty of ideas on how osC works as well as install it in your space and give it a try. I use osCommerce, didnt know a lick of PHP beforehand and can make simple to moderate changes with ease now, there is much documentation to be found on it and we are a pretty good bunch to ask if you have questions about it. I would look at osC and maybe do a search for free shopping carts to see what is out there. Find one you like and think you can work with, then look into a merchant account so you can accept credit cards. Dont let yourself feel too overwhelmed, pick a starting point like finding a shopping cart and get comfortable with it before moving on to the next step and you will do fine.

Blackcat, Welcome home. I wish I could read Italian, translators dont do a good job of getting the point across.

I am not sure if it will do it all as I dont code PERL but look at EditPlus at editplus.com. You can download it for free, try it out and see if it fits the bill. At www.hotscripts.com/CGI_and_Perl/Software/index.html there are 28 editors to look through as well.

Now don't be !!blue, I wasnt able to find a thing on this. Our nocternal friend with the artwork found more than I did. I do not have that file on my wifes Win2K box, I really doubt it is an essential file. What may have happened is that you deleted some junk and this was a dependancy that is left behind. If you have Adaware or the like I would run it to see what it comes up with. If you are comfortable with it you can look at your registry and see what is run at startup, remove the offending line and it will go away. Important, if you have never worked in your registry before, don't. Or at the very least back it up first. Removing the wrong key can cause all sorts of fun that will have that popup box pale in comparison.

I agree with schussat, using a font family may be your best bet. Unfortunately if it is a nonstandard font you are going to lose a few users on it. I being one of the 25% that dont use IE wouldnt get to see them. Not cause I am anti MS, UNIX doesnt run IE well.

Moved for organization.

Another option may be to have a form, where you have a text box and depending on what was typed in it, when submit was clicked, could be parsed to the URL. That folder would be pw protected for that user. I dont know how to parse a variable into a URL though. I was thinking something like this but it isnt quite right ><form action="<?php echo 'http://www.knifeandblade.com/members/users/, urlencode($user) '; ?>" method="get"> Your Name <input type=text name="user" size=20> <input type=submit value="Submit" /> </form> Maybe we can get some input from a PHP guru.

I havent tried it yet but look here www.phpsecurepages.com

Lets say your site was like this index - with link to pw protected members area - members folder -- member1 folder ------ member1 index -- member2 folder -- member3 folder If I went to member1 folder/member1 index I will still get the user pw prompt as it is in a folder under the main protected folder. Throw in a redirect on each page that makes them log in at the members link and you can control it pretty well. Get the authentication set up and working so it redirects, I will find you the code to force entry through a specific page.

So send them to /folder/name.htm and .htaccess the folder to only allow users to enter from password page. Like some larger sites do when the issue of deep linking was big, try and get to a deeper part of the site and it redirected you to a main page and you had to go from there.

You may want to read this link in Security Discussions about a similar situation. I do not know if it will help or not in your decision to go this route, there are ways to do this but I cant say it is the safest route to take.

1) I agree with HC 2) Safe Mode is off 3) I would use the reseller plans 4) I cant answer this question, I have never tried it 5) I believe most of our users are running Movable Type as their Content Management System

Well, I will tell you what, there is a small learning curve but it is pretty simple to do the basics in a short time. It is open source so it is free to use and the backend of it, adding proucts and overall configuring isnt that bad. If you run into trouble there is someone that has run into the same situation and you can find the answer on their forums. I donr suggest asking a question there unless you have looked at the first 30 pages in your search results. Not always that easy on the new people, I like to help when I can though so dont worry too much about that part. We have a number of osCers to assist here. The big thing is that it uses blocks, you can modify the heck out of it though. I have seen some sites, even our members that look nothing like the basic site. If you want to look at the basic site you can see it at knifeandblade.com/test and that is what you start with. Take off the test and you can see what I have done and I will see if I can find examples of other osC sites that are even further along than I am. I am also working with ZenCart, an osC offshoot and about 6 other free carts I found on hotscripts that I liked the looks of. One day I hope to have a "Robs eye view" of all of them. Ask away if you have more questions.

Is that email address posted anywhere on any website?

Nat, I dont use these but this is from Amembers site

One thing you may want to do is look at the carts that we offer as well as look on the web and find one you like. Then look at what merchant systems work with that cart and compare them to see what the features are. Many of them come with no setup fee, expect to pay about $50 a month in basic fees, those that happen before the transaction fees. Figure about $20 for gateway, $20 for merchant, and then $10 for misc like AMEX fees and such. My site is based on osCommerce, there are many more free and not so free carts out there. We all have our favorites This is in addition to what Bill had to say above.

Here is a js version http://forums.devarticles.com/archive/t-3012 A possible PHP version http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/authentication.php

James, I have tried a few various incarnations of that .htaccess option. I can not get it to work properly, I get a page not found or a redirect to the list of folders with usernames. I encourage you to give it a go still if you want, maybe one of the Mikes has a better answer. I found this option by "googleing" redirect users based on username no quotes. There were other options with various scripts. You may want to have a go at that as well.

I havent gotten a chance to look into it too much yet but I will say that I dont think I would use it. It may be fine for a few users but if you ever got into the tens or hundreds or more it would be a pain to have to update it whenever a new person comes or someone goes. There are other options using PHP and other scripts that use a database to achieve the same results. I think it would be better to go that route if one has many users that need this feature. Just a few and this should be fine.

James, I will have to play with it. I havent even seen the script before I looked for it last night. I will play with it and see what I can come up with.

Try Looking here; http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8966

As a temporary solution you can use the File Manager in cPanel to upload files as well. The drawback is that you can only do a few files at a time and not entire directories.

By the way, the word "our" in Dicks post above refers to Enom and not TCH.

It has grown a ton since I have been here. Here's to the next 3000 members. Thumbs Up