On you backup or testing server, for development, (not your live, commercial, site!!) you can create a fake SSL certificate (for free, of course!) officially called a “Self Signed Certificate” and operate with SSL turned on everywhere. Regardless! In your zen-cart configuration files, do not hard-code any settings that might be different on your backup or testing server or that you might want to...
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zen-cart v.150: cannot test off-site, “not accepting payments from your region”
“Sorry, we are not accepting payments from your region at this time” Problems with testing Zen-Cart 1.5.0 off-site updated Sept. 25th 2012 SSL certificate required for zen-cart on a development server? You’re kidding! I just started testing an upgrade (to v.150) on one of our development servers. I made sure it was working properly as is (v.138a in “test mode”) before starting the upgrade...
Delete the Zen-Cart Store Demo files, images, and Data
How to get rid of zen-carts demo store – including version 1.5.0. “How to clean up default install and remove example store related files.” How to remove, or delete, the “Zen Cart demonstration categories and products”. Help with installing Zen-cart, help removing Zen-cart’s demo store. How to Delete all the Zen-Cart Sample Store files, images, and Data. Install Zen-Cart and choose “NO” to the...
How to install and customize-personalize Zen-Cart
Tutorial help: how to find settings to set up, customize, Zen-Cart Fast. What Zen-Cart Won’t Tell You Running the installation program is easy. The time consuming part is removing their sample store demo files and changing ZC’s settings which are scattered all over. I made changes to the html several times because I did not know there was some setting in admin. The admin...