SalesCart Forums : Please advice: Global.asa and SalesCart.a

Please advice: Global.asa and SalesCart.a : jason2004 wrote: I believe...

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:40:13 +0000

Author: mikeb
Subject: 558
Posted: June/02/06 at 8:40am

jason2004 wrote:

I believe that everyone is having same the same path.

c:\inetpub\wwwroot\folder_name\fpdb\shop.mdb

Nope, in fact, I would say nearly no professional web hosting company keeps customer content there. The most obvious reason not to is that this is the default and the most likely place for a hacker to start looking. Please refer to your other thread that you have on this problem alreadyThread

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Please advice: Global.asa and SalesCart.a : Hi Mike, Thanks for your response....

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:51:30 +0000

Author: jason2004
Subject: 558
Posted: June/02/06 at 5:51am

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your response. I can�t agree with you. I�m not performing anything unusual.
What I�m doing is testing Pro 5.04 on http://localhost My hosting company is not having anything with this. If I can make it work on localhost, there should be no problems running it live.
I believe that everyone is having same the same path.

c:\inetpub\wwwroot\folder_name\fpdb\shop.mdb

I have performed lots of testing, and I�ve seen that Front Page is changing global.asa file. Moreover, since in 5.04 version you have additional salescart.asa, everything becomes more complicated.

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Please advice: Global.asa and SalesCart.a : There is no "exactly how...

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:45:48 +0000

Author: mikeb
Subject: 558
Posted: June/01/06 at 9:45am

There is no "exactly how global.asa/salescart.asa is supposed to be"...it all depends on where your database is and a whole bunch of other things about your hosting company.

[Also, you have way too many threads that talk about the same problem...so I have erased the duplicate posts. Confine a single problem to one thread.]

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Please advice: Global.asa and SalesCart.a : As I see, the majority of Sales...

Mon, 29 May 2006 14:59:48 +0000

Author: jason2004
Subject: 558
Posted: May/29/06 at 2:59pm

As I see, the majority of Sales Cart problems are caused by incorrect global.asa (broken database connection string) and/or the incorrect folder permission setting.

You do have a great manual for Sales Cart, but without many explanation and instructions about these major settings. I understand that global.asa problem is not the Sales Cart development bug and it is caused by Front Page. What you need to do is to show us exactly how global.asa/salescart.asa is supposed to be.

Few days ago I�ve upgraded Sales Cart to PRO 5.04 version, (running FP2002 and XP) and my nightmares starts again. It took me lots of time to make ver.3.0 working and here we are again.

I was glad to see that you have included salescart.asa inside global.asa in PRO 5.04 in order to prevent FP breaking connection string. Unfortunately, upon installing new version and running Sales Cart Wizard global.asa is broken again. It took me few hours to realize this. I can rewrite the code manually, and upload *.asa files manually as long as I know what the correct code is.

Please advice:

1.     With this new combination global.asa/salescart.asa is it correct to not have SalesCart1 listed in Tools>Web Settings>Database?

2.     What global.asa/salscart.asa code is the correct one:

3.     Original global.asa:
Sub Application_OnStart
End Sub

Sub Application_OnEnd
End Sub

Sub Session_OnStart
'==SalesCart Start==

'==SalesCart End==
End Sub

Sub Session_OnEnd
End Sub

4.     Front Page modified global.asa:

'     Copyright (C) 1995-2004 ComCity. All Rights Reserved
'     SalesCart 5
'
'     File: global.asa
'     Revision: 4
'     ASP file that controls application and session-wide variables
'
'     DO NOT CHANGE- UNLESS YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!
'