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Awww...but..but....I wanna be a winner too!

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Oh hmm...is the taring based on the entire order (total weight of items) or individual items?

I'm not sure if anyone's asked about this before...but I didn't really find anything on this particular topic on taring. Anyway, so I was wondering for those of you using zen and osc, which shipping module do you use? Just lookin at it it seems like zone rate would be the best way for shipping to mulitiple regions and countries. Do you guys use the tare weight function to calculate packaging weight? It seems a lil difficult to tare each item with packaging if people buy multiple items, cuz then you're counting almost double the packaging weight, no? And also is it easier to list the net weight and then tare it or just include the packaging weight in the net weight and not use the tare function at all? How hard is it to integrate USPS into the shipping module? I looked at it briefly and it looked quite complicated. Would an avg person be able to do it? I do'nt know any programming or scripts or anything...I am barely starting out on my first website...so basically is it easier to try to integrate USPS or just calculate everything manually? Thanks!

i was trying to do that first but coudln't find it that's why i got so confused...but i went back again and found where to change the pw....it works now....sorry for all the stupid confusing questions! thanks a lot don!

ok n/m scratch all that....i reinstalled zencart and it works now.... but when i go to my admin page i get this warning: Warning Warning: Your Admin login is not secure ... either you still have default login settings for: Admin admin or have not removed or changed: demo demoonly The login(s) should be changed as soon as possible for the Security of your Shop For additional Security for the Admin please see the /docs i read the /docs on security for admin and am kinda confused on what im' supposed to do...can someone please explain? am i supposed to change the folder name of "admin" to somehting else or am i supposed to do something to the configure.php files? thanks

the login.php file? it's there...under the admin folder.... =\

this is the error: Not Found The requested URL /admin/login.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. somebody please help!!!

oh maybe i should add that mysite/catalog/v1.2.5/ is where i installed zencart

hmm...how do i access the admin page for zencart? i typed in "mysite.com/catalog/v1.2.5/admin/" which is what i thought it was after i installed it...but it says url not found. also, after i opened a help desk tic w/tech support they helped me w/the installation but zencart kept giving me a warning saying that my site was insecure cuz i had the default admin settings...after tech support help me fix a few things it said url not found. they then fixed it again and it worked (warning still there)...but all the links on the admin page (to set up products/categories/shipping, etc) didn't work....they said they coudlnt' help me anymore and referred me back to the forum...but now i can't get to the admin page anymore....did i type the wrong url?

got it. thanks for all the splainin'

Thanks Ali. So...when i add products to oscommerce, that becomes part of my website? So it's not like I create separate product pages and THEN link the "buy now" button to oscommerce for shopping cart. the product pages that i create on oscommerce ARE the pages the customers should see when they are browsing thru my website?? Is that the customization that everyone talks about? so basically you create your webpages under oscommerce but make it look like just another page of your website as opposed to the oscommerce look?

oic, thanks david!

ook, thanks. another question, also when setting up the install for zen-cart - it told me to turn off register globals.... but after i did that, i couldn't go to my oscommerce anymore. it complained: "FATAL ERROR: register_globals is disabled in php.ini, please enable it!" so can you have oscommerce and zen-cart installed/running simultaneously?

Hi, After playing around w/oscommerce i decided to also install zen-cart just to compare. however, when i was setting up the instal it gave me a warning showing: PHP open_basedir restrictions = /home/username/:/usr/local/sqmail/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp what is that? and how do i fix it? thanks

oic, thanks Rob.

okey coo...thanks don....that's a relief!

Hmmm... I just installed osCommerce in my cpanel. after i logged into the admin page, it shows that my name is "Harald Ponce de Leon" and that i live in Florida (both of which are..ug...not me). it also thinks i have 27 products listed, 1 customer, 1 review of my products....just all sorts of weird things. I just installed it so obviously there shouldn't be anything in there...can someone tell me what's happening here? Is that supposed to be a sample/demo thing? but that's kinda weird even for sample.... Also (this may be a duh question w/a duh answer since i haven't looked ) but if i use oscommerce, is there a function where after you enter the items details they will return "buy now" script/code for you to copy and paste on to your website, just as paypal cart does? or how is it integrated to your site? TCH-Rob, I saw in a few of your posts you kindly referred ppl to your website for oscommerce examples, but i can't find where your website is (even in instances where you said "click on the www under my post," i don't see anything) . would you let me in on the secret? or if anyone else using oscommerce don't mind sharing their website, i'd greatly appreciate it as well! thanks!

ic, thanks

what's a symbolic link? like it just links back to the public folder?

Oh oh...n/m i wans't looking at my images in the public folder....i guess it makes sense that there's only a url for images there. duh =P btw what is the diff b/t public_html and www? they seem to have identical content

Oh, haaa. ic, thanks for clearing that up, Rob! I'm not down w/the lingo so i got all confused =P haahaa ....Hmm...the last link under "show file contents" is "move file." I don't see a "file URL:" if that's what you're referring to.

Hmm...I don't quite understand what you mean by it being a "feature" in cpanel. What is the feature you're refering to? I also don't see a link to the "file url:" Although I just realized something, the "show file contents" actually works but only with smaller files. I have 2 differen't sized images - some are about 50k, the rest are over 100k. Only the 50k ones show up when I click on "show file contents." The ones over 100k show up as a broken link. The only way for me to view them is to type in the url in a browser. Am I doing something wrong or is that just how it is w/File Manager? Is there any way I can view large images within cPanel? I noticed that under each file description, it showed "resolution, 72x72". Is that the highest my images can be set at in order to view them in file manager? What does that translate into for file size? Sorry but I'm just really confused...

Hi, I uploaded some images to my file manager but when i click on "show file contents" to try to view my pics, i get a broken image link. The images come up tho, when i go to the image location in my browser. Can someone tell me what is wrong? Thanks!