krovvy Posted March 24, 2005 Posted March 24, 2005 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? Quote
TCH-Andy Posted March 24, 2005 Posted March 24, 2005 osCommerce will give me a website and a shopping cart. I have a paypal account that will accept credit cards. What else is needed?For the basics - that should cover everything 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 smile.gif.If you use the shared SSL - then you would get the browser warning - yes. Hence I would suggest you have one specifically for your domain name. You can purchase (and have installed) an SSL though us for $150 for the year. 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?The cpaneldemo is not maintained by us - so unfortunately it does not have the same reliability we offer. That demo is largely similar, but not identical (ie some script installations etc are different. No backup mail server? I'm rather chagrined by this one. It's easy to set up, and takes little load.I'm sorry this does not meet your requirements - but we have the one mail server for an account. Do I get my own IP, or is it name-based?On a shared server, it would be on a shared IP - hence name based. If you purchase an SSL, it would go on a dedicated IP. Quote
Miriam Posted March 27, 2005 Posted March 27, 2005 (edited) osCommerce will give me a website and a shopping cart. I have a paypal account that will accept credit cards. What else is needed?For the basics - that should cover everything 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 smile.gif.If you use the shared SSL - then you would get the browser warning - yes. Hence I would suggest you have one specifically for your domain name. You can purchase (and have installed) an SSL though us for $150 for the year. 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?The cpaneldemo is not maintained by us - so unfortunately it does not have the same reliability we offer. That demo is largely similar, but not identical (ie some script installations etc are different. No backup mail server? I'm rather chagrined by this one. It's easy to set up, and takes little load.I'm sorry this does not meet your requirements - but we have the one mail server for an account. Do I get my own IP, or is it name-based?On a shared server, it would be on a shared IP - hence name based. If you purchase an SSL, it would go on a dedicated IP. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In reading this thread, I got a little confused about using PayPal and needing an SSL certificate. I thought that if you used PayPal, then at checkout the shopping cart sent the customer to the PayPal site and therefore no SSL certificate was needed for the domain. Is this not the case? Edited March 27, 2005 by Miriam Quote
TCH-BillH Posted March 27, 2005 Posted March 27, 2005 I would agree with your throught-process on this. PayPal does provide their own SSL connection, so I would not think you would need to have your own. If you did, Andy's information is correct. Quote
krovvy Posted April 13, 2005 Author Posted April 13, 2005 (edited) 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 Edited April 13, 2005 by krovvy Quote
stevevan Posted April 13, 2005 Posted April 13, 2005 Welcome to the forums and family! Scan through the FAQ's and Tutorials and if you still have any questions, don't hesitate to ask your new family here. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted April 13, 2005 Posted April 13, 2005 Welcome to the family and forums krovvy osCommerce should be under AddOn Scripts in your cpanel. If it's not there please open a ticket with the Help Desk (link above) and they will get it on there for you. Quote
TCH-Don Posted April 13, 2005 Posted April 13, 2005 Welcome to the Family krovvy and your new home! We really are like family here. So if you need anything, just ask your new family! We love to help Quote
krovvy Posted April 14, 2005 Author Posted April 14, 2005 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. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 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. Do you have your own SSL cert? If not I don't think you will be able to suppress the warning. Quote
krovvy Posted April 14, 2005 Author Posted April 14, 2005 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. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 osCommerce that is included in cPanel is updated by cPanel and not TotalChoice Hosting. In fact, the problem isn't with cPanel either because if you read futher down in that post the poster downloaded a new copy of osCommerce and the link is still wrong. I have also downloaded a new copy of the Oscommerce installation software and this too goes to the old Paypal URL. This would be up to osCommerce to fix and cPanel to update. Quote
TCH-Don Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 The osCommerce install is part of cpanel, maybe you could report this to cpanel as a Bug Report. Quote
krovvy Posted April 14, 2005 Author Posted April 14, 2005 The osCommerce install is part of cpanel,maybe you could report this to cpanel as a Bug Report. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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. Quote
TCH-Don Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 Well you have been helpful to the family at least they are warned and thanks to you they know what to look for Quote
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