DavidR

I sent you a note on this. David

I really believe you are over-thinking this one but if you are concerned, why not do as they suggest and contact Google to find out? That would seem to be the next logical step. The statement "many companies with millions of ever-changing pages" came from the FAQ in what you are calling the personal account. Good luck. David

In the FAQ of the normal account signup (what you are calling personal account I believe), it says: I believe the agreement wording in question referrs to those who would use the Site Map service itself as a business opportunity, ie selling access to the service, using it to manipulate ad sales in ways people may already be dreaming up. It's a blanket clause to make it easier and legal for Google to ban "blackhat" SEO using the Site Map service when they find it. Ultimately, how many companies with "millions of ever-changing pages" are not selling something? David

Change the cookies domains to: define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.ministryhelps.com'); define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.ministryhelps.com'); Don't forget the . before the domains :thumbsup: David

I don't know where you got "a.htaccess", perhaps someone said to create "a .htaccess file" and the space was missing? You apparently have errors in your .htaccess file. When you rename it to "a.htaccess", the server is just ignoring the file because that name doesn't mean anything to it. It knows to use the settings in the ".htaccess" file if it exists, so if there are errors in that file, they will cause problems. Perhaps if you post the contents of this file someone can spot the trouble. David

Display the contents of your /includes/configure.php MINUS the database connection settings. Incorrect values in there seem to be causing a lot of problems like this. David

Thanks very much for your reply. I will do as you sugested. Chemo does write some cool stuff! David

I'm a little confused at the basic level. I installed version 1.3 and ran it, generated good files and all is fine there. At the end of the process, I used the included link to submit to Google: The one line response told me it was submitted and no guarantees on what it would do, etc. Now I see you can also get an account and log in to submit and view results. What exactly is the difference in these two methods? Should I create an account and resubmit my sitemapindex.xml? Thanks for any guidance on this. David

In the example just above, you would put it in /store. However, I'm not sure that really is the structure of your site. Do you have a folder named "store" or are you just trying to represent that you have put the main osC files in the root of the site (i.e. public_html/index.html)? In that case, the .htaccess would go in public_html/). I hope that helps more than it confuses :P. David

I just replied to your PM but then I realized - are you sure we are on the same track? My post that you quoted was in response to ptrinephi. I'm having trouble with getting Information Pages Unlimited to use rewritten URLs with Ultimate SEO. Which problem were you offering to help with? :) David

All things considered (i.e. the "mess"), you are probably right. It's a shame but I will bite my tongue now :(

Strong encryption would definitely be a must if you were going to store them. Just to be clear though, it's really the agreement with the merchant account holder that I would consult, not Authorize.net. They are just the gateway in between. Your obligation is to the merchant account and their bank - they are responsible for communicating the current policies from Visa/MC. I think Amex and Discover have separate agreements with merchants. If it were me, I would run it by them first. However, if you are careful and can demonstrate that you used all due caution, encryption, etc in case of an audit, and if you dispose of the information after the sale, I doubt there would be much of a problem. That's purely speculation so take it for what it is worth B). David

It's not so much Authorize.net as Visa/MC (and probably the rest). There are recent changes to their policies in response to the identity theft problems of late. I think the cut-off for strict adherence is merchants doing 20K annually or less. Under that they let the acquirer set the policies and they are generally lenient because they want your business. Other than that, storing of credit card numbers has always been frowned upon. The biggest problem with capturing them (which is very easy to do) is handling them in such a way that doesn't negate the security of the transaction. Authorize.net can say they don't care all day long; it won't necessarily protect the merchant from the liability of carelessly handling their customer's financial information. It's a bad practice, but if they are low volume they will probably be ok, at least until someone tells the bank that all those fraudulent charges on their card occurred right after they shopped at your client's web site ;). David

The changes in the .htaccess file are vital to the operation of Ultimate SEO URLs. There are a lot of good hosts out there that don't place such restrictions on you, I would start shopping for one :thumbsup:. David

Nice site, and yes it seems to be working perfectly for you. Mine works but Ultimate SEO isn't rewriting the URL's. I would be grateful if you would post the file contents as described. That might give me the information I need to make it work. I would say just email them but posting in a code block might help someone else one day looking back. Thanks! David

No, I am having no luck at all :'(. Information Pages Unlimited 1.1i seems to be the latest normal release. If you had no problems and you get a chance, let me know exactly what version your files are for Information Pages. I'm going to test some more on a fresh install. Thanks. David

Actually I found 2.1c to be pretty stable. I've not had any problems with the Buy Now buttons on either of those releases. The cookie domains should be listed as ".storedomain.com" (don't forget the "." in front. David

I can't seem to find "Ultimate Information Pages". The one I have installed is Information Pages Unlimited v1.1i - http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...formation+pages. Is this the one you meant? If not, could you post the link to the one you are using that works? Thanks! David

Thanks, I will give ultimate information pages a try first. As for what it's doing, it just works normally - no rewrite. It's like Ultimate SEO just ignores it. Bobby actually had a go at fixing the code in Information Pages (it's pretty much a mess) but it didn't help. Thanks for your suggestion, I'll post back if that works. David

Dog gone short edit time limit :'( Has anyone gotten Ultimate SEO URL's v2.1x to work with Information Pages? I've looked through the code and can't see any reason that it shouldn't rewrite but it comes through as sitedomain.com/information.php?info_id=1 every time. David

Come on, if you are going to play hall monitor, could you at least not cross post?

I'm trying to make a modification to this contribution and I guess I've become more rusty than I thought. I'm posting in case someone else has either done this and would be kind enough to share or could point me to a beginning of how to do it myself. The client would like to have appear in the Title the entire category string, i.e. if we are on a subcategory page the title would show "Category Subcategory - Store Name". As it is, only the immediate category is displayed. In addition, on the product info page they would like the title to include the main category for that product, but no subcategories, i.e. "Category Product Name by: Manu Name - Store Name". As it is the categories are not shown on the product info page. The information is there as it is being displayed under the description meta and of course it is used in the breadcrumb, but my attempts to do the above have failed. I want to make sure I don't screw up the cache function as well. I will be adding Chemo's Ultimate SEO after this. Thank you! David

I've installed the latest version v2.4.6 Complete on MS2. Everything works well but I noticed in the admin when editing categories, there seems to be no multilanguage support for Header Tags Category Title, Header Tags Category Description, Header Tags Category Keywords. I looked over the relevant tables in the db and I can see where it might work. Is this something lacking or am I misundertanding the usage? Thank you. David

I've installed the latest (May 3) version and it seems to work well except for the image browser. When I click the insert image icon, then browse, it shows me the basic browser (doesn't work) but with this JavaScript error: Line: 118 Char: 2 Error: Object required Code: 0 URL: http://www.mydomain.com/admin/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/frmresourceslist.html That line is the next to the last in this function: function GetFoldersAndFilesCallBack( fckXml ) { // Get the current folder path. var oNode = fckXml.SelectSingleNode( 'Connector/CurrentFolder' ); var sCurrentFolderPath = oNode.attributes.getNamedItem('path').value; var sCurrentFolderUrl = oNode.attributes.getNamedItem('url').value; I would appreciate any ideas :'( David

Certainly, here it is http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1126. I found it purely by accident :P David