ShopSite TX 5.0 Screen Pack Installation Instructions

These instructions provide steps for downloading the ShopSite TX software and screen pack, and installing and configuring the ShopSite TX screen pack on a Transact system. The screen pack allows ShopSite TX mall administrators to remotely manage the screens for ShopSite TX stores. The Transact system cannot process ShopSite TX stores until the screen pack is installed.

After completing these steps, you must follow the instructions for installing the ShopSite TX software on a different server. Once you have installed the software on both systems, you will be ready to offer sellers fast and powerful Web store creation coupled with industry-leading transaction processing and order tracking.

If you are upgrading from a previous version of ShopSite, please use the upgrading instructions.

Table of Contents

Pre-Installation Considerations

Important Notes on Installation and Operation

Download and Unpack the Install Files

Install the Screen Pack

Copy Install Files to the ShopSite Server (optional)

I. Pre-Installation Considerations

• The ShopSite TX version 5 screen pack can only be installed on a server running Transact 5.

 

• ShopSite version 5 and the ShopSite screenpack are only available in English at this time. If you are currently running ShopSite TX 4.3 with non-English language packs, the upgrade program will detect this and will not run. If you have non-English language packs, do not attempt to install or upgrade to ShopSite version 5 until those languages are made available.

Note:

ShopSite TX version 4.3 with non-English screenpacks works with Transact version 5. You can upgrade your Transact system to Transact version 5 and still run ShopSite version 4.3 with non-English language screenpacks.

 

• You must have subscriptions disabled, and you must use web-based authentication. ShopSite does not work with the subscription server nor with forms-based authentication. Be sure to download the zip file that has "transact5" in the file name.

II. Important Notes on Installation and Operation

All the scripts are designed to run under a KornShell (ksh). If you do not have the KornShell  installed on your system, you may need to edit the scripts to get them to run correctly. Although the scripsts run under the KornShell, you should log in and run commands in csh or tcsh or whatever shell you are familiar with; the scripts themselves will invoke a KornShell.

The screen pack makes edits to the Transact registry. Make a backup of the Transact registry (located in /conf/registry.asc) before you install the ShopSite TX screen pack. Also, make sure that no one else is making administrative changes to the registry directly or through the administration GUI screens.

III. Download and Unpack the Install Files

1. Use an FTP client to connect to shopsite.com.

 

2. Log in, using the username and password that were given to you for downloading the ShopSite software.

 

3. Navigate to the directory for your server platform.

 

4. Use a binary-mode transfer to download the zip file for your operating system and Transact version, according to the table, below.

    

   ShopSite Operating System	Transact Version	Download File
   Solaris-Sparc	Transact 5	tx-transact5-sparc.zip

 

5. If there is a patch directory in the operating system directory, cd to it. Download all of its contents to the install directory on your server. If there are patches, you will install them after completing the regular installation.

 

6. Unzip the ShopSite file.

   > unzip tx-transact5-sparc.zip

   (The file name will vary, depending on your server platform.)

    

7. Use FTP to move screen_pack*.tar to the Transact installation directory on the Transact system.

IV. Install the Screen Pack

1. Log in to the Transact system as the Transact administrator.

    

2. If it is not already there, copy the screen_pack.tar file to the Transact installation directory, hereafter referred to as the <install_dir>.

    

3. Source the transact.cshrc file in the conf directory.

   > source <install_dir>conf/transact.cshrc

    

4. Untar the screen pack file. Use the correct language identifier in place of ##, as per the name of the screen pack file:

   > tar -xvf screen_pack##.tar

    

5. From the <install_dir> directory, install the kit:

   > ./screen_pack/install.screen_pack

    

6. Restart the Web server. You should see the message:

   OK: Screen_Pack installed in the registry

You have completed installing the ShopSite TX screen pack. Now install the ShopSite software by following the ShopSite TX Installation Instructions.

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