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I tried that, and it did indeed do the redirection, it showed all the files in /osCommerce instead of the web page.

The redirect feature in cPanel will not work unless you define a subdomain first. CPanel will not let me define www as a subdomain. See above error message. Defining a subdomain such as oscommerce.* is not a solution. People expect that www will be the subdomain. I need to manage this subdomain, in order to redirect it to /osCommerce, so people will see my store, instead of the root directory of my site, where nothing but directories exist. OsCommerce will not allow itself to be installed in the root, it must be installed in a subdirectory. What I need to be able to do is manage www from the cPanel "subdomains" module. Then, I can redirect it. What do we need to do to make this happen?

I'm trying to use cPanel to manage my www subdomain. I want to redirect it to /osCommerce. However, I can't use cPanel to do this, because I get: SubDomain Adder Sorry, www cannot be used in subdomains. However it is implicitly added to all newly created subdomains. What to do? Right now, www just goes to the toplevel of my website, which is /cgi-bin, /images, and /osCommerce. How do I manage this, using cPanel.

Nah. Cpanel would immediately reject the bug report as being osCommerce's problem. osCommerce has it listed as bug #2549, status: Open, unassigned to anyone. As osCommerce has been at version 2.2 for the last two years, I seriously doubt that a fix will be forthcoming anytime soon. So much for trying to be helpful.

Do you have your own SSL cert? If not I don't think you will be able to suppress the warning. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No. If you look at the URL I posted above, PayPal has changed the URL that accepts incoming transactions. As configured now, osCommerce hands off the transaction to secure.paypal.com. Secure.paypal.com (obsolete) has an expired SSL cert, thus generating a browser warning. PayPal changed the URL to www.paypal.com instead of secure.paypal.com. Www.paypal.com has a current SSL cert. There is one line that must be changed in one of the includes. As it stands now, TotalChoice Hosting will generate a deprecated instance of osCommerce every time a new customer implements the service. My idea was for TotalChoice Hosting to implement the one-line change in the master osCommerce implementation, thus preventing future customers from being inconvenienced by this problem.

I did run into one "gotcha" with osCommerce. I was getting expired SSL cert warnings from PayPal. I pasted the error into google and got the link below. http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=133160 I don't know if we can modify the master osCommerce setup to reflect this change. It'll save someone else trouble later.

OK, I bought the hosting. How do I configure osCommerce? I thought there would be a cpanel option. I see Agora cart, but no osCommerce. ====== Found it under 'Scripts Library'...nevermind

Hi, I'm going to host a website selling maybe 30-50 different products. I don't anticipate getting a lot of traffic. Just trying to make a few extra bucks selling. After evaluating several different solutions, osCommerce seemed the best one. After searching the forum, it appears that it is installed systemwide here. osCommerce will give me a website and a shopping cart. I have a paypal account that will accept credit cards. What else is needed? I know I need an SSL cert. Do I need to register my own, or is there a systemwide one I can use? If so, isn't the SSL cert tied to the domain name, so it'll pop up a browser warning? Sorry, I used to be a Solaris sysadmin, but webhosting was never my thing, baby . I can't reach the Cpanel demo at http://cpaneldemo.cpanel.net:2082/. Is it just me? Also, is this the same customized one that you use here with osCommerce installed? No backup mail server? I'm rather chagrined by this one. It's easy to set up, and takes little load. Do I get my own IP, or is it name-based?