• Posted by admin
• 01 August 2009
• Zen Cart Tutorials

This is likely to be true, as the hack that began around this past week (July 28th) has a very prominent symptom of the create account form being blank. This breach is a very serious vulnerability and should be acted on immediately. If you need help or a set of eyes to determine if your Zen Cart has been hack, please feel free to contact us and we are happy to advise you as we can.

In the mean time we have written this Zen Cart tutorial to help you determine if your Zen Cart has been hacked in this manner and help you get cleaned up as well.

• Posted by admin
• 23 July 2009
• Zen Cart Tutorials

In your Zen Cart admin section navigate to In Configuration >> Product Info >> Previous Next – Button and Image Settings and set as desired. Next, go to Configuration >> Product Listing >> Prev/Next Split Page Navigation (1-top, 2-bottom, 3-both), set as needed. The recommended setting is top, as it is the most logical navigational position, and there is no valid reason to use both top and bottom images to slow the page down.

• Posted by admin
• 23 July 2009
• Zen Cart Tutorials

To turn off the category icon/link on your product pages you will navigate your Zen Cart admin to Configuration >> Product Info >> Previous Next – Navigation Includes Category Position, set this to false.

To turn off the category icon/link on your top level and subcategories pages you will navigate to Configuration >> Product Listing in your Zen Cart admin and select the following options: Include Product Listing Sub Categories Image & Include Product Listing Top Categories Image and set to false accordingly.

• Posted by admin
• 23 July 2009
• Zen Cart Tutorials

To change the display behavior of your Zen Cart breadcrumb navigation you will login to your admin and navigate to Configuration >> Layout Settings >> Define Breadcrumb Status. Here you will have the following options:

1. 0= OFF
2. 1= ON
3. 2= Off for Home Page Only

The recommended option is #3 to display the breadcrumb navigation on all pages except your home page wgere it would be redundant. Note that if enabling your breadcrumbs here has no effect within your Zen Cart store then its very likely that the template design has omitted it.

• Posted by admin
• 27 June 2009
• Zen Cart Tutorials

Find a great tutorial and SQL patch to define Continental and Non-Continental US zones in your Zen Cart 1.3.X. Once zones are defined they are used for shipping, payment and tax modules quickly and effectivly in your Zen Cart's built in modules.

• Posted by admin
• 22 June 2009
• Web Hosting Tutorials, Webmasters, Zen Cart Tutorials

This tutorial will teach you how to use phpMyAdmin to create SQL dumps and backups of your databases.

1. Login in to your hosting control panel and locate the phpMyAdmin icon within the cPanel. (It will generally open a new window, so your pop up blocker may grab it. Use the control button when clicking to allow the pop up.

2. Select the correct database using the left hand menu and click the link of the database you wish to dump or backup.

3.  Along the top of the right hand side you will see tabbed menu selections like below, you will choose export.

4. Once in the export screen you have many selections, we will address each one below.

• On the left side of the export screen you can select individual tables or all to export.
• Also on the left side you have options for the export format, in this case it will be SQL and is likely checked by default for you.
• On the right of the export screen under options you will first see custom commenting, Enclose export in a transaction and Disable foreign key checks. We will not be using these and they should remain blank.
• The next box down is structure, in this box you will check the following options:

1. Add DROP TABLE / VIEW / PROCEDURE / FUNCTION
2. Add IF NOT EXISTS
3. Add AUTO_INCREMENT value
4. Enclose table and field names with backquotes

• We will not be checking the option Creation/Update/Check dates, under Add into comments.
• In the last right hand box labeled data we will be checking the following options only:

1. Complete inserts
2. Extended inserts
3. Maximal length of created query field should be 50000
4. Use hexadecimal for BLOB
5. Lastly, the Export type dropdown will be set to Insert.

• The large field below labeled Save as file will be checked to export this as a file and not in your broswer window. Compressions is only necessary for very large databases.
• All of this completed, just click the go button and your dump/backup will begin assembling for you.
• After its done you will have the opportunity to save the file. Please safe this to a secure location and NEVER place SQL files in your website file directories, as they are very vulnerable.

To use this for backing up when you haven't another utility to backup your databse is a great idea. If you should need to restore you backup simply load the database as described above and select the import tab instead of export, browse to your SQL dump file and hit GO.

• Posted by admin
• 31 May 2009
• PRO-Webs Customers

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Complete list of 50+ included Fantastico scripts

Fantastico DeLuxe will allow you to install over 50 website scripts and programs nearly instantly. To use fantastico just login to your hosting control panel, click the Fantastico icon, and then click one of the 50+ scripts to be installed such as...

Blogs, Portals/CMS, Customer Support Desks, forums, shopping carts, Image Galleries, Mailing Lists... and more.

Can't find Fantastico? You may need to upgrade your hosting to use Fantastico... Call 330.871.4357 (HELP) for hosting upgrade information

• Posted by admin
• 31 May 2009
• PRO-Webs Customers

Yes certainly, a free manual for cPanel is available at  http://www.cpanel.net/support/docs/index.htm.

Additionally, if you have a clustered account or are a reseller the WHM free manual is also handy http://twiki.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/WHMDocs/WebHome

• Posted by admin
• 31 May 2009
• PRO-Webs Customers

Addon Domains are handled exactly like subdomains as far as the server is concerned, but to the web they are separate domains.

Addon Domains do not have their own cPanel;  You can still create email accounts, redirects, Fantastico installs, subdomains, etc. and even manage databases in phpMyAdmin.

Every addon domain is also a subdomain. You may actually load your addon domain in one of three ways:

* http://addondomain.com/ (As an Addon Domain Name)
* http://addondomain.com.primarydomain.com/ (As a Subdomain Name)
* http://primarydomain.com/addondomain.com/ (As a subfolder)
We suggest that you correctly redirect others to the correct canonical url for your website to avoid duplication.

To your visitors, the Addon Domain appears to have its own hosting just like any other website. Note that an addon domain can NEVER have a dedicated IP as it resides within the hosted domain's account. If you decide you need a dedicate IP later, we can move your site to a full account for a small fee. Just contact us and we can quote this upfront for you. 330-871.HELP (4357)

Creating an addon domain is very simple....

Note: You may not be able to create a new Addon Domain if you do not own the domain name or if your DNS hasn't propagated yet. Additionally, you hosting package may not include addon domains, in which case you would need to upgrade.

Login to your hosting control panel and click the Addon Domains icon, under the Domains heading. There are three fields cPanel asks for when creating an Addon Domain for your hosting account.

1. New Domain Name: Enter the new domainname.com, but do not put http or www in the name field.
2. Username/directory/subdomain Name: This will be the folder/directory cPanel creates in your public_html folder. Normally, you want to ensure the name you provide doesn't already exist as a folder in your account, but cPanel will automatically suggest the name and we recommend you use the suggested folder name.
3. Password: Fill in any password you want here 80% strong or better. This password is used also for an FTP account which is automatically created by cPanel. Passwords must be alpha numeric with at least one character for all hosting accounts... addon or otherwise.

Your new domain is now successfully added. You can upload the site files to the specific addon folder which was created in the public_html folder, all of this addon domains files will go in the new directory/folder..

How to remove an Addon Domain.

If you have an Addon Domain set up and would like delete or remove it, please do the following:

1. Login to your hosting control panel and click Addon Domains.
2. At the bottom, under Actions, click Remove for the specific addon domain.

• Posted by admin
• 27 May 2009
• Zen Cart Tutorials

We have just the beginner level reviews gadget for you from Google Friend Connect. Visit our tutorial for Zen Cart reviews installation using Google Friend Connect.