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General Support / Re: Cache file and folder permissions and 777
« on: December 26, 2015, 09:06:52 PM »
Hi webdevmerc,

Yes, Shopify is a partner with Facebook, Pinterest and now Twitter, too.  To be clear, it allows a customer to buy your products WITHIN those sites. Not a redirect. It's a convenience to a customer because they don't have to leave those social media sites to buy. Checkout is done within FB/Pinterest/Twitter. I'm curious to try it and see how it works.

As far as getting shutdown like eBay or Amazon, I think the risk is low for my business model since I sell my own unique designs. But I do agree that FB/Pinterest/Twitter mainly want to keep users on those sites, not have them leave. So it benefits them (perhaps) more than me. I understand that. I just want to test those features to see if the added customer convenience leads to greater sales overall, in which case I'd be happy with that kind of trade.

I've said it before: I like AbanteCart a lot. It's got a lot of great features right out of the box. It's been fairly easy to configure, even for a "newbie" like me. I think a lot of the problems I've been having are server (host) related. When I talk to Arvixe support, they are not too helpful in resolving AbanteCart issues. That's very frustrating for me. If I had more web skills and time to spend on configuring & customizing AbanteCart, I'd do it. Maybe when my business gets bigger I can hire a web developer to do all the back-end stuff. Right now, I can't do it with all the other things I need to do to run my business.

I'll do my best to post my experience here. I'll certainly come back to AbanteCart if I hate Shopify.  8)

Thanks again for your input. It's appreciated.
Alonso
xochico.com

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General Support / Re: Cache file and folder permissions and 777
« on: December 25, 2015, 08:56:34 PM »
Mark,

I took a break from AbanteCart due to the holiday so just got a chance to read your latest post.  The code you posted is interesting, but it confirms to me that I'd rather spend my time designing new products for my business than studying & developing code. As much as I enjoy troubleshooting errors -- because that's how I learn -- I really don't want to spend as much time as would be required to get to speed on all the minutiae of coding. I guess I'm not as nerdy as I thought! And the last thing I want to do is have this affect my customer experience while I'm trying to fix a bug or find a solution here on the forums.

So, I've been playing with the Shopify trial, too, during the past ten days or so and I like it. The Facebook & Pinterest features I mentioned allow a customer to purchase my products from within Facebook or Pinterest though the Shopify integrations, so a customer doesn't have to leave those sites at all to purchase from me. It's a convenience for my customers. I know people spend more time on those sites than mine, unfortunately.  :-\

I get what you're saying. I'd rather have a customer on my site 100% (where I have complete control of my brand "message") than trying to sell to them on FB or Pinterest. But I want to reach my customers wherever they are and I won't know if the integrations are good or not unless I try.  :P

Two big things I don't like about Shopify are:
1) I can't use my domain's SSL cert. Customers will have to checkout through something like "shopify.com/mydomain" unless I pay for an "enterprise" plan, which is over $1,000/month. Ridiculous and no way a small business like mine can afford it.
2) Email: I have to pay for email service through a third party (like Google Apps) for custom / domain email forwarding.

But I am willing to accept these shortcomings because I know a lot of my customers spend time on FB & Pinterest and I want to see if it's worth reaching them using a service like Shopify.

I might sound like a shill for Shopify, but I know it's not perfect. I really would prefer a solution like AbanteCart. When Pinterest was launching their "buy" button, I actually signed up for their "waiting / wish list" requesting AbanteCart as a partner. But I guess big sites like FB & Pinterest won't support AbanteCart's platform until it gets more popular and is more stable. I don't see that happening for a while.

If I were a dedicated web developer I'd try to work on such an extension for AbanteCart to work directly within FB, Pinterest, or Instagram but unfortunately this is beyond my capabilities. I hope someone on these boards sees this and makes it happen, in which case I'd stick with it.

So I'll keep up with AbanteCart as much as I can. I'd recommend it to people. It's just that I really am itching to try those FB & Pinterest integrations.

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General Support / Re: Cache file and folder permissions and 777
« on: December 15, 2015, 04:46:29 PM »
Thanks, Basara, well-noted about the Order Start No. feature coming in 1.2.6. 

I hope you can add this to the documentation that there is a possibility of duplicate invoice ID conflicts with prior shopping carts with Paypal.

Mark (& Basara), thanks for the advice. I do like the complete control I get with a platform like AbanteCart, and I wrote earlier it's got a lot to like: it's pretty easy to learn, got an amazing feature set, and seems to get better and better. Still, I've been having a lot of little problems while using it.  Some problems, I believe, are not AbanteCart's fault.  I believe my hosting company (Arvixe) is behind a lot of the problems I've been having while using AbanteCart. I don't think their web servers are set up to handle AbanteCart 100% perfectly. So, although I agree software like AbanteCart gives you a LOT of control over your website, there are things like web hosting company settings that you can't control completely unless you have a dedicated server.

Also, I'm looking at Shopify as a paid solution because they have two features that I'm eager to try: Facebook & Pinterest buy buttons that your customers can buy straight from those social media sites, so it saves your customers a step.

Basara, I think it would be interesting if you surveyed AbanteCart users to see who is having the most problems and who is their web hosting company.  That way you can see if Arvixe is a good hosting partner or not.

Just a suggestion.

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General Support / Re: Cache file and folder permissions and 777
« on: December 13, 2015, 11:40:51 PM »
Thanks, Mark, for the detailed reply.  Forgive me for asking, but your suggestion regarding "duplicate invoice IDs" raises some questions I hope you don't mind me asking:

1) Paypal invoice #s conflicting with AbanteCart shopping cart invoice #s... hmm, I started with AbanteCart v. 1.2.3, took about 50 orders, then had trouble trying to upgrade to v. 1.2.4, so I installed AbanteCart 1.2.5 and started over with a new database. So I guess that is causing the conflicts with Paypal because the new AbanteCart install is assigning the same invoice ID's as the first install. Is this correct?

2) Database Table: So I should go and set the _orders table to higher than 50 if that was the highest invoice ID of my last AbanteCart install. Is my understanding correct? Seems pretty straightforward.

Have you got your issue resolved? My cache issue has seemed to disappear. I don't think I did anything special except clear the cache from my Dashboard.

I hope you get your issue resolved. I like AbanteCart. It's got some pretty good features for an open source platform. But I'm finding I don't have the time to be dealing with configuration issues, most of which are beyond me. I really need to be spending my time on product development instead of web development.  So as much as I like a challenge, I am considering a paid platform to avoid these headaches.
-Alonso

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General Support / Re: Cache file and folder permissions and 777
« on: December 11, 2015, 02:48:19 PM »
Hi,
Did you get this resolved? I'm getting a similar message:

"Message status:
critical
Date:
12/11/2015 11:34:39 AM
Number of repetitions:
0
Following files do not have write permissions. AbanteCart will not function properly.
/home/stronso/public_html/system/cache/category/category.list.71.0.1_0.1449844324"

I checked this directory via the CP and this category list file couldn't be found. Maybe because it's a temporary session?

Anyway, two customers have emailed me saying they couldn't order because they were getting "duplicate invoice ID" errors or something to that effect.

Anyone have any ideas?

Can anyone help

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Update: This post solved my problem with the "...unable to create session..."
http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,4221.0.html

Just find your path to tmp folder in Cpanel and add to php.ini.
Mine was session.save_path=/home/user/tmp

Hope this helps you, svandernaalt.

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I have the same problem after upgrading to 1.2.5.  Looking for a solution as this is very frustrating.  >:(

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General Support / Re: Upgrade error 1.2.2
« on: August 14, 2015, 01:07:46 PM »
Okay, tried changing the prefix to "ac_", logged out, refreshed everything, and tried the install and no luck.

Here are the latest error logs:

2015-08-13 3:37:57 - database error: AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 Error:
ALTER TABLE `ac_product_options`
ADD `settings` text COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
in <b>/home/stronso/public_html/core/database/amysqli.php</b> on line <b>105</b>

2015-08-13 20:00:02 - warning: AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 preg_grep() [<a href='function.preg-grep'>function.preg-grep</a>]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in <b>/home/stronso/public_html/core/engine/language.php</b> on line <b>283</b>

2015-08-13 20:00:07 - warning: AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 preg_grep() [<a href='function.preg-grep'>function.preg-grep</a>]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in <b>/home/stronso/public_html/core/engine/language.php</b> on line <b>283</b>

Any suggestions before trying the fresh install on a sub-directory for testing before moving to the root?

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General Support / Re: Upgrade error 1.2.2
« on: August 13, 2015, 11:58:13 AM »
Thanks, llegrand, for the comment.

I noted that, too, but I think that was the error log when I tried changing the prefix in the database and forgot to change it in config.php.
I changed the prefix in config.php from "abc_" to "ac_" and tried the install again and got the same "critical error" default page after re-attempting the update.

I'll try again, though, making sure to refresh the browser to clear out any residue of the old prefix.  I'll let you know if it works.

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General Support / Re: Upgrade error 1.2.2
« on: August 13, 2015, 12:51:57 AM »
Thanks, Handoyo, again for the reply.

I'll try the fresh install workaround.

Just to clarify since I'm a newbie at this, importing the data as you suggest instead of full database import, means I manually import the old data into the new database tables, correct? I assume it will be easy to see the corresponding tables via phpMyAdmin in the new database. Or is the new schema very much different?

If it's confusing, do you think I should do a fresh install on a sub-directory and test it before moving it to the root folder?  Does moving the site from a sub directory to the root directory cause any problems with future upgrades? That's what I did while I was testing & configuring Abantecart, and ever since I haven't been able to upgrade once I moved to the root folder.

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General Support / Re: Upgrade error 1.2.2
« on: August 13, 2015, 12:00:57 AM »
Here are the latest error logs:

2015-08-13 3:34:27 - database error: AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 Error:
SELECT se.`key`, se.`value`, st.store_id
FROM abc_settings se
RIGHT JOIN abc_stores st ON se.store_id=st.store_id
LEFT JOIN abc_extensions e ON TRIM(se.`group`) = TRIM(e.`key`)
WHERE se.store_id = 0 AND st.status = 1 AND e.extension_id IS NULL in <b>/home/stronso/public_html/core/database/amysqli.php</b> on line <b>105</b>

2015-08-13 3:34:31 - database error: AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 Error:
SELECT se.`key`, se.`value`, st.store_id
FROM abc_settings se
RIGHT JOIN abc_stores st ON se.store_id=st.store_id
LEFT JOIN abc_extensions e ON TRIM(se.`group`) = TRIM(e.`key`)
WHERE se.store_id = 0 AND st.status = 1 AND e.extension_id IS NULL in <b>/home/stronso/public_html/core/database/amysqli.php</b> on line <b>105</b>

2015-08-13 3:37:57 - database error: AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 Error:
ALTER TABLE `ac_product_options`
ADD `settings` text COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
in <b>/home/stronso/public_html/core/database/amysqli.php</b> on line <b>105</b>

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General Support / Re: Upgrade error 1.2.2
« on: August 12, 2015, 11:49:39 PM »
Hi Handoyo,

Thanks for your reply. I finally had a chance to try this, but it didn't work.
I changed the prefix as you suggested, but once I tried to run the upgrade via the Dashboard it took me to the "Critical Error" default page. 

I thought it may be because I had to change the prefix in the "config.php" file as well, but I tried again and got the same critical error page.

I logged back in and it still shows Abantecart 1.2.1.

What if I try to do a completely fresh install of 1.2.3, then once the new database is created, drop it, and import the previous database?
I understand I'll have to change the salt key, and other settings in "config.php", etc. I'm just wondering if this is a good workaround for whatever is causing these upgrade errors.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

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General Support / Upgrade error 1.2.2
« on: August 11, 2015, 12:19:39 AM »
Hi,

This is my first post. I can't upgrade from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2.  I've read the forums here about alternatives to Dashboard upgrades, checking user settings, mysql vs amysqli, upgrade manually, then run "upgrade.sql" via phpMyAdmin, etc., but nothing has worked for me.

I get different errors in my log based on each attempt.  Here is the latest log after re-attempting via the Dashboard:

2015-08-11 4:07:15 - database error: AbanteCart core v.1.2.1 Error:
ALTER TABLE `abc_product_options`
ADD `settings` text COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
in <b>/home/stronso/public_html/core/database/amysqli.php</b> on line <b>105</b>

I hope someone can identify the issue. I'm enjoying the experience with Abantecart so far, and hope to continue using it and get the latest upgrade to 1.2.3 now that it's available.

Thanks.

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