AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Show your host the part in red (the connection string and message). There are many reasons (dozens) why the connection cannot be opened. One possibility is that the server does not have SQL Express installed. Another reason is that the permissions are not correct. Your host is in the best position t...

If you don't delete everything and start over, no one will know if the next problem is left over from this failed install or a new problem. If it were me, I would delete everything, upload a fresh copy of AbleCommerce (not a copy of your local site), and start the install over. If any part of the in...

The first part of your post seems to indicate that the remote server does not have SQL Express installed or it is not named "SQLExpress". You will have to check with your host. The second part of your post means you have a duplicate section in your web.config file. You cannot fix that by removing an...

Acceptable to your customers? I think so. That is essentially what I get most of the time when I order something from an online store.

There was a thread that showed some nVelocity code to do that, but I'm not sure how to find it. If you search for "tracking" and "email" you might find it.

Does this help?

http://wiki.ablecommerce.com/index.php/ ... ng_Carrier

I'm glad you made some progress. For future reference, you can't just paste lines of text into the web.config file (or any file with the .config extension on an ASP.NET website). ".config" files are written in XML, which has a specific structure, very much like HTML has specific structure (e.g. the ...

That should work for most crawlers. I have read that not every crawler will honor a wildcard in the Disallow. If you still get errors, you may have to list WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd explicityly. You can use Google's "Analyze robots.txt" tool to see what Google will do, http://www.google...

It is possible to install the software on a remote site. The message you quoted is a generic message from ASP.NET that means "something went wrong when I tried to load your page, but I am hiding the error details in case they contain sensitive information". You can see the error details by making a ...

ASP.NET 2.0 and above use the *.axd URL's to identify resources embedded in DLL's. By resources, I mean snippets of javascript (i.e. ScriptResource.axd) and small images such as icons. The querystring at the end of the URL identifies the resource and often some other pieces of information that make ...

You can't change the account number. You will have to remove and then re-add UPS OnLine Tools.

1. Go to Admin > Configure > Shipping > Integrated Carriers

http://screencast.com/t/x0PAQhG7iN

2. Delete UPS OnLine Tools

3. Follow the normal instructions to add a new carrier, to add UPS OnLine Tools.

Try right click on the DataPort icon and select Run As Administrator.

Yes. But not the *.axd URL's. Those URL's do not point to content, but things like javascript or CSS.

"a bunch of them seem to be generated, often at night" makes me think it is a spider indexing your site. Add an exclusion to your robots.txt files like so:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.axd$

Is there a charge to register with Fedex to use their integrated shipping? Also, is it possible to calculate shipping charges for just some items without actually creating those charges? I'm trying to calculate a vendor's shipping charge which is not the same as the customer's shipping charge. The ...

If you don't specific the width of a table cell (you don't as far as I can see) the browser will try to calculate a width that accomodates the contents of all rows (2 in your case).

Basically, the browser is giving the first column more width than you want. So you have to tell it what you want.

Hey Ben, Add FireBug to your FireFox browser, load the page, and then select Tools > FireBug > Inspect Element. As you move the cursor over "Call Us" you will see FireBug outline the table cell and see that "Call Us" is very tightly aligned to the left. Then move the cursor over the logo and notice ...

Is there a way to only look for newer source files? If you use Beyond Compare (BC) to upload the files, it will try to preserve the timestamp on the file. For example, if the file on your local dev machine has a timestamp of 5/30/2009 10:13:01, then BC will try to set the timestamp of the file on t...

Database full and out of disk space can cause that behavior.

The Src parameter starts with ".." in 7.0.3:

If you leave the page and return, the sidebar cart catches up and shows 1 item with quantity 2.

First remove the float: left from both #leftSidebarPanel and #rightSidebarPanel in both style.css and style_.css. If you want to be able to identify and fix issues like this in the future, get Firebug for Firefox and a good book on CSS. Then use the Inspect tool to poke around your pages and play wi...

It looks "bad" in IE8 also unless I turn on IE7 compatibility mode. The left side navigation drops down because you are floating your right panel left (see #rightSidebarPanel { float: left; } in style_.css and style.css). Two other things I noticed in the few seconds I looked: 1. style.css and style...

It may resolve itself overnight...many sysops configure backups to run automatically every night.

Jaz wrote:Also will Shipper 3 work with 7.03?

Good question! I hope to know for sure within a few of days.

I have not tried this will AC, but when I want a copy of the vendor email I add my address to the vendor email field, separated by a semicolon. For example, "vendor@company.com; me@mycompany.com". The underlying mail system has always sent the email to both addresses. That will probably work with AC...