Re: [mv] V4.04: Place Order button takes me back to checkout page with empty cart

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Kayo Liles (kayo@mediafuze.com):
> 
> Please help, I'm not sure what's happening...
> I was able to place orders successfully earlier yesterday. I was modifying
> checkout.html, basket.html etc. (mainly chainging page layout and taking out
> unnecessary lines), and now when I click the Place Order! button in the
> checkout.html page, it takes me back to the checkout.html page and tells me
> no items is in my basket. If I go back to the basket page, items are still
> there. At this point, I have to exit my browser completely because I cannot
> go back to the checkout page from the basket page any longer (it keeps going
> back to the basket page). I've copied back the default checkout.html page
> thinking I messed up something in my checkout.html, but it still doesn't
> work. I've also deleted the catalog and recreated it. Any idea why this is
> happening?
> Thank you very much for your help!

I have most often seen this under these conditions:

	1. Different SecureURL from VendURL
	2. Multiple catalogs on the same Minivend server
	3. minivend.cfg "Mall No", which is the default.

What happens is that a cookie gets set for the secure server on one
catalog, and then when you next access that secure server it is still
present. And it is different from the non-secure server. So you have
two active sessions.

The answer is to turn off your browser and restart it.

This may not be your problem, but it has bedeviled me in the past
othen enough.

By the way, there is a reasonable way to deal with split secure/non-secure
servers. It isn't perfect, but it works in a lot of cases. If you use 
<A HREF="[area href=order arg=item-code secure=1]"> Order Now </A> to order
the items, it is always ordered to the secure server. You can still display
info with the other, but at least the shopping cart will be in the right
place. Then display the basket link with [area href=ord/basket secure=1] and
all will coordinate.

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