Technical Settings

If your store has been successfully installed, then most of the technical settings were set during installation. The settings not set during installation are:

Security for the back office and shopping cart
Location of Custom CGI

Use Security Settings

By checking the "Use security" boxes and filling in the correct URLs, ShopSite will use the secure SSL Web server when the customer enters payment information such as credit card information. Also when the merchant later views the order information from the back office the payment information will be sent 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/sb

the secure URL would be

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

or if you shared a secure Web server

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

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.

 

URLs of Back Office and Shopping Cart

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

 

Output Directory

This field indicates the directory where ShopSite is to place the output (HTML) files when it updates the store. (This field does not appear to ShopSite Express users.)

 

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)

 

URL for "My Store"

By setting this field you can change the location ShopSite goes to when you click on the My Store button at the top of the back office. This feature is new in ShopSite releases greater than v3.2.1

Location of Executables

These fields tell ShopSite where to find system programs. Sendmail is the mail program used by ShopSite and most UNIX systems for sending e-mail. Perl is used by ShopSite when you update your store. The Perl field does not appear for ShopSite Express users

"From" Address in E-Mail Receipts

Here you can specify the return address that appears on automatically generated receipts sent to customers. This is the customer's primary method of remembering your address for future correspondence. This is also the address that ShopSite will send e-mail to for notifying the merchant that an order has been placed.

Location of Custom CGI

ShopSite Pro allows Web Developers to interface to ShopSite during the ordering process. By writing a custom CGI a developer could:

Only enter the path to the custom CGI if you are sure the CGI is ready to run. If improper permissions are set on the custom CGI no orders will be processed. Read the Custom CGI Interface Specifications for information about writing a custom CGI.

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