Hosting Service

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Hosting Service

If your store has been successfully installed, most of the hosting service settings were set during installation.

Merchant Settings

Merchant e-mail address	Specify the return address that appears on receipts sent to customers. This is the customer's primary method of remembering your address for future correspondence. This is also the address to which ShopSite will send e-mail when notifying the merchant that an order has been placed.
"My Store" URL	Specify the page that ShopSite opens when you click on the My Store button in the ShopSite button bar, and the store URL that is included on customer receipts.

SSL Security Settings

If you check the Use SSL Security boxes and fill in the correct URLs, ShopSite will use the secure SSL Web server when the customer enters payment information, such as a credit card number. Also when the merchant later views the order information, ShopSite sends the payment information to the merchant’s browser in a secure (encrypted) fashion.

Usually the URL for the secure shopping cart is the same as the URL for the nonsecure shopping cart with the addition of https: instead of http:. For example if your regular URL was

http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/sc

the secure URL would be

https://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/sc

or if you shared a secure Web server

https://www.shared-secure.com/cgi-bin/sc

It is important to get the domain part of the URL of the secure Web server exactly right. www.mydomain.com is not the same as mydomain.com when it comes to secure URLs.

Store Settings

These are the IDs and URLs ShopSite uses to find its CGIs (program files) when a customer clicks on an order, or the seller clicks on ShopSite menu options.

ID	The unique ID of the store.
ShopSite Images URL	The location of standard images used by ShopSite, such as buttons for the back office.
Store URL	The Web address where your store pages are located, not including page names. This URL is set in your store.auth file. To change this address, you must get a new auth file.
Merchant CGIs URL	The location of the programs that ShopSite uses to build stores.
Shopping Cart CGIs URL	The location of the programs that ShopSite uses to process orders.

Product Settings

Product	This field indicates which ShopSite product you are running.
Version	This field indicates the version of ShopSite that your store is running.
Serial Number	The serial number of the store.
Code	Coded information about your store to assist support personnel.

Hosting Service Configuration

OS	The operating system that the ShopSite server is running.
Partner ID	The unique ID of the ShopSite Partner that is hosting this store.
Sendmail Executable Path	This field tells ShopSite where to find the sendmail program, which is used by ShopSite and most UNIX systems for sending e-mail.
Data Directory	The data directory is where ShopSite stores the databases and most configuration files for your store. Typically the data directory is not located in or below the output directory. In other words the data directory is not part of the Web server's document root (e.g., htdocs, WWW, or HTML directories)
Output Directory	This field indicates the directory where ShopSite is to place the output (HTML) files when it updates the store.
Media Directory	This field shows where the image files used in your store are located.
Digital Download Directory	This field shows where the digital download files used in your store are located.

ShopSite Help and Resource Center
July 1, 2002
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