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eCommerce construction => Installation and Configuration => Topic started by: Gary Tayman on July 23, 2020, 09:13:50 PM
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Brand new to this. I've just installed AbanteCart and am starting to set up. I've printed out the "Going live checklist from the documentation. Step 1 is install an SSL certificate. Note: your domain name with and without the www part to be two different websites.
Huh? Sorry, but it isn't taking me long to get lost. What do I need to do here?
Thanks in advance.
While I'm here, step 2 is payment processor. I use Paypal. Years ago I had set up the old site, and I sure don't remember how I did it but I recall it was just a few clicks. Anything I should watch out for?
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What this means that your site set up with www.domain.com and domain.com would be treated and 2 separated sites.
You need to redirect all the requests from domain.com to www.domain.com.
When you create SSL, make sure it is correct with www.domain.com and not just domain.com.
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Hey Gary, your site already has an SSL assigned to it.
https://gar****man.com/AbanteCart/
Your URLs start with HTTPS:// The "S" is the indicator
and that is what the Padlock indicates on the address line.
Lee at
The WHY2 Support Team
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As to your Payment processor, since you're in the trying it out stage for how to organize your site etc, I recommend you wait until you have decided if you're staying with AbanteCart for your new store front.
But it is simple to set up your PayPal, and it is just a few fields.
While you're in the playing around mode - just use COD to test out the orders and emails, etc.
Still Lee here.
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Once again, thank you very very much!
Yes, I thought that I already had it secured; maybe Softand lucious did this as I was installing it, but the two website thing had me scratching my head. So step 1 is checked off.
If steps can be skipped, and gone back to later, agreed -- maybe I can skip Paypal for the moment.
But this guide is the closest thing to "Here's what you do next."
Just poking around in there, I'm understanding a lot of it, just getting used to where everything is, as it's far different from what I've been using.
It's almost as if you trade in your 1939 Hudson for a 2020 Cadillac. Where's the choke? I can't find the choke. What's this seat belt indicator mean? What's the screen for?
Something else you might enjoy. AbanteCart is not the only program I was considering. There were a few others I was looking at, and I sent e-mails to a couple of them just to ask about them. AbanteCart is what I installed, based largely on the fact that I got my questions ansered quickly, and I'm definitely on my way. Another one, a newer version of what I was using before, I just this minute got a reply: "Don't ask me, go to the forum for support." This, after having been to the forum and getting nowhere. Support is everything; this reinforces my decision to go with AbanteCart. Thanks!