Important Features of Oscommerce
By bob | August 4, 2008
Oscommerce has nice feature without doubt, it is one of the leading ecommerce shopping cart which has all features to handle your ecommerce business smoothly, OSC has robust built up and surpass nearly all ecommerce software on the market today, the easy administration makes managing your cart less time consuming and more significant, Check here some of the features of oscommerce which make it incredible and so popular.
* Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
* Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation
* Multilingual support
* Ability to create templates
* Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
* The MySQL database-based catalog allows of unlimited number of items
* Unlimited number of categories
* Multiple Languages
* Custom Currencies and Secure transactions with SSL
* Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
* Easily backup and restore the database
* Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
* Statistics for products and customers
* Custom taxes and shipping options
* Built-in product and manufacturer search
* Product review option
* Optional secure shop (requires SSL certificate)
* Administrator-specified product details and characteristics
* Stock Management, It has Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
* Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure
* Tools for easily editing any part of customer orders
* Credit Card Validation
* Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
* Multiple payment gateways to choose from, additional modules available for download
* HTML code allowed in product description
* CSS Style Sheets allow you to change page appearance
* Order Tracking tools
* Custom Packing Slips and Invoices
* Dynamic product attributes relationship
* Customer Registration & Login System
* Registered users can receive shop-specific newsletter
* ‘Best selling items’ category
* ‘Send to a Friend’ option
* Latest News Module
Oscommerce have also nicest supportive community of developer base from where you can get help for oscommerce installation and fix any problem that you may come across. After installation of Oscommerce you should also decide what hosting provider to chose because there is great difference between hosting a personal website and a store hosting.. There are many hosting company but you need to choose the best web hosting company those can set up your site properly as this carts can have problems if server is not configured proper way.
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How to Install name servers on Linux cPanel server
By bob | August 1, 2008
Check here how you will install name servers on a Linux CPanel server.
1. Register Name Servers where you registered your domain at.
I suggest using 1 IP per name server.
NS1.yourdomain.com = IP#1
NS2.yourdomain.com = IP#2
2. You should then notify your DataCenter to setup Reverse DNS for the IP addresses used above and for your name servers. (Normally you put in a ticket to request RDNS for “NS1.yourdomain.com = IP#1 NS2.yourdomain.com = IP#2? and they will complete this within a day)
It would take possibly 24 to 36 hours for your name servers to propogate through the web. Once it has been propogated procede to step #3.
1. Login to WHM as root
2. Click “Edit Setup” from the left hand menu. (x2 theme)
3. Type: ns1.yourdomain.com in the Primary Nameserver field.
4. Press Assign IP Address
5. Then Press Add an A Entry for this nameserver
6. Type ns2.yourdomain.com in the Secondary Nameserver field.
7. Click Assign IP Address
8. Then Click Add an A Entry for this nameserver
9. Click Manage Nameserver IPs from the left menu in WHM.
10. If you see any nameservers that do not belong to you, remove them now.
11. Click Initial NameServer Setup from the left menu in WHM
Run this for the “initial name server setup”
12. Login to SSH to restart bind. (Be sure it restarts, so don’t do this in WHM)
13. Type: service named stop
14. Type: service named start
15. While in SSH do the following to verify installation has gone well.
16. Type: pico /etc/wwwacct.conf
Scroll to the bottom and insure that your name servers are listed like this:
NS ns1.yourdomain.com
NS2 ns2.yourdomain.com
17. While still in SSH do the following to verify installation has gone correctly.
Type: pico /etc/resolv.conf
It should look like this:
domain yourdomain.com
search yourdomain.com
#nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver ip address #1 here
nameserver ip address #2 here
18. Check one more thing in SSH to make sure Name Server Configuration went GOOD.
Type: pico /etc/nameserverips
It should look like this:
ip address 1=ns1.yourdomain.com
ip address 2=ns2.yourdomain.com
This is ok, if there may be more IP Addresses that are equal to 0.
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Ruby on rail Installation on Ubuntu
By bob | July 29, 2008
Ruby on rail Installation on Ubuntu:
You need to install Ruby and irb (Interactive ruby shell) and add ri and rdoc. The recommended Ruby version for rails is 1.8.5.
Open your terminal and type
sudo apt-get install ruby irb ri rdoc ruby1.8-dev2.2
Then you need to install RubyGems with the following command:
sudo apt-get install rubygems
Then you need to update RubyGems with the following command
sudo gem update –systemNow
we have the correct version, and best of all when we want to uninstall it we can just do it with synaptic.
Now you will install rails with command
sudo gem install rails –include-dependencies
Now you have successfully installed Ruby on Rails.
To create new project type
rails name_of_app
How to uninstall Ruby on Rails (ROR) in Ubuntu
To uninstall all first remove rails gem
sudo gem uninstall rails
and then uninstall rubygems and ruby
sudo apt-get remove rubygems ruby irb ri rdoc ruby1.8-dev
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Create Remote login page for cPanel
By bob | July 22, 2008
To create remote login page for cPanel, your website should have HTML codes. Assuming your website has HTML code, your website url is www.yourwebsite.com then your cPanel login url will be http://www.yourwebsite.com:2082 for non-SSL or https://www.yourwebsite:2083 for SSL login.
You need to put the following HTML from in your website HTML codes.
<form action=’http://www.yourwebsite.com:2082/login/’ method=’post’>
<table border=’1′ width=’250′ cellpadding=’2′ cellspacing=’0′>
<tr>
<td align=’right’>Username:</td>
<td><input type=’text’ name=’user’></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=’right’>Password:</td>
<td><input type=’password’ name=’pass’></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=’2′ align=’center’><input type=’reset’ name=’r1′ value=’Reset’><input type=’submit’ name=’s1′ value=’Login’></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
In the code, you should replace “www.yourwebsite.com” with your website domain name.
If you want to use SSL login, you should replace “http” with “https” and “2082″ with “2083″.
Replace “Username:” and “Password:” with your own phrase if you like to translate it or such.
Replace “Login” and “Reset” with your own phrase if you like to translate it or such.
Now you can put put this code in your website.
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Create Remote login page for DirectAdmin
By bob | July 16, 2008
To create a remote DirectAdmin login page, your website should have some HTML codes.
Assuming your website has HTML codes and considering your website url is www.yourdomain.com, your DirectAdmin login url will be http://www.yourdomain.com:2222 for non-SSL or https://www.yourdomain.com:2222 for SSL login.
You need to put the following HTML from in your website HTML codes.
<form action=’http://www.yourdomain.com:2222/CMD_LOGIN/’ method=’post’>
<table border=’1′ width=’250′ cellpadding=’2′ cellspacing=’0′>
<tr>
<td align=’right’>Username:</td>
<td><input type=’text’ name=’username’></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=’right’>Password:</td>
<td><input type=’password’ name=’password’></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=’2′ align=’center’><input type=’reset’ name=’r1′ value=’Reset’><input type=’submit’ name=’s1′ value=’Login’></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
In the code, you should replace “www.yourdomain.com” with your website domain name.
If you want to use SSL login, you should replace “http” with “https”.
Replace “Username:” and “Password:” with your own phrase if you like to translate it or such.
Replace “Login” and “Reset” with your own phrase if you like to translate it or such.
It has just finished, now just put this code in your website where ever you need.
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