1. Install e-Store Go to your control panel at http://yourdomain.com/_admin Enter Your Password Choose e-Commerce Choose Install e-Store Your e-Store is now installed with a sample bookstore in http://yourdomain.com/cgi-local/store 2. Configure and Customize your e-Store Go to your control panel at http://yourdomain.com/_admin Enter Your Password Choose: e-Commerce Choose: Enter e-Store Control Panel Enter your domain's username and password Set the desired configuration in the "Program Settings" section Use the "Add a Product", "Edit a Product", and "Delete a Product" links to add, delete, or edit  your e-store products. Working with your e-store products: To create a new category, simply give all the products in that category the same category name.  Category names are case sensitive, so make sure they are spelled exactly the same including case. Do not use dollar signs ($), commas (,), or extra spaces in the price of the product.  The only valid characters other than numbers is the period (.) which is used for denoting the cents portion of the price. You have the ability to add an "Options File" which allows for one and only one drop down box of options that will be added to the final order email.  Most shopping carts use this to specify various size or color variations for each product.   The options file is small html file and a sample can be found in the /store/Html/Options/ directory. For the description, you can paste in regular html code and will appear to the right of each product in the e-store page for that category.  E-store paths and locations of files Root  E-store path:   /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store Html path:   /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Html - This is where you can find the e-store store-front page and order form page: frontpage.html and orderform.html - You can download this page via FTP, modify it, and re-upload it to it's original location to customize the store-front page.  Make sure you re-upload all html pages in ASCII mode. - To get the list of products in a particular category, just change one of the demo links already on the frontpage.html (Perl or Java for example).  The only part of the link you need to change is the last part that references the category name. For example, here is one of the demo links in the frontpage.html: <font FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="3"><a HREF="commerce.cgi?product=Perl">Perl</a> If you created products with a category name of "Music", then just change the link to: <font FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="3"><a HREF="commerce.cgi?product=Music">Music</a> Header path: /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Html/headers - This is where you can find the html header for your e-store pages: store_header.inc - You can download this page via FTP, modify it, and re-upload it to it's original location to customize the store-front page.  Make sure you re-upload all html pages in ASCII mode. Footer path:   /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Html/footers - This is where you can find the html footer for your e-store pages: store_footer.inc - You can download this page via FTP, modify it, and re-upload it to it's original location to customize the store-front page.  Make sure you re-upload all html pages in ASCII mode. Product Image path: /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Html/Images - Store your product images files (*.gif and *.jpg) here. Options file path: /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Html/Options - Store your options files here.  You can also find sample options files here. Main Code path: /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Library - This is where the bulk of the code for the e-store is located. Data path: /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Data_files - This is where the raw data for your products is kept in a file called: data.file - Be very, very careful if you decide to modify this file directly!  Back it up first! Admin path:   /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Admin_files - This is where the e-store log files are kept Manager path:   /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/protected - This is where the e-store control panel software is located. 3. Go Live with e-Store Link your home page to the e-Store Lobby at: http://yourdomain.com/cgi-local/store/commerce.cgi Add/Delete/Edit Items through the e-Store control panel at: http://yourdomain.com/cgi-local/store/protected/manager.cgi?change_settings_screen=yes 4. e-Store FAQ Where do I put the images for my products? /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Html/Images How do I set up SSL/Secure Order Forms? Note: You need to request the SSL option if you did not select it on the order form. Go to the e-Store Control Panel at: http://yourdomain.com/cgi-local/store/protected/manager.cgi?change_settings_screen=yes Before proceeding to the next step, you need to determine which SSL server you are on. Click on Which SSL server am I on? link to find this out. Change the Order URL to: https://www.domainnameservers.net/<username>/cgi-local/store/commerce.cgi or https://ssl1.domainnameservers.net/<username>/cgi-local/store/commerce.cgi or https://ssl2.domainnameservers.net/<username>/cgi-local/store/commerce.cgi or https://ssl3.domainnameservers.net/<username>/cgi-local/store/commerce.cgi Where are my order logs kept? /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Admin_files I get an error about reaching a maximum number of entries in a query when viewing my products. How can view more than 25 products in a category? This is meant as a feature in the e-store but one that can easily be changed by modifying the e-store file located at: /home/<username>/virtual_html/cgi-local/store/Library/web_store.setup.db Change the following line in the file and set it equal to the number of products you want per category. By default it is set to 25. $sc_db_max_rows_returned = 25; Send Mail to support@spring.net for Web Site Assistance.