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

["Kayo Liles" <kayo@mediafuze.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Kayo Liles" <kayo@mediafuze.com>     ******

Please never mind my last posting. I decided to run everything under the
secure server. It seems to have solved my problem. To do this, I changed the
VendURL to match the SecureURL, and also added "index" and "ord/basket" to
AlwaysSecure in the catalog.cfg.
Thanks,

Kayo
kayo@mediafuze.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Kayo Liles <kayo@mediafuze.com>
To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [mv] V4.04: Place Order button takes me back to checkout page
with empty cart


> ******    message to minivend-users from "Kayo Liles" <kayo@mediafuze.com>
******
>
> Thanks, Mike.
> All of the following apply to my situation.
> > 1. Different SecureURL from VendURL
> > 2. Multiple catalogs on the same Minivend server
> > 3. minivend.cfg "Mall No", which is the default.
>
> However, your suggestion of using <A HREF="[area href=order arg=item-code
> secure=1]"> Order Now </A> to order items did not work (I'm assuming that
I
> use it in my results.html etc. to add items to the basket). I've also
added
> "AlwaysSecure   ord/checkout multi/checkout ord/basket" in the catalog.cfg
> file, but the secure basket is always empty. What's so weird is that it
was
> working until yesterday afternoon...
> Thanks again,
>
> Kayo
> kayo@mediafuze.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>
> To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 11:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [mv] V4.04: Place Order button takes me back to checkout page
> with empty cart
>
>
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>
> ******
> >
> > 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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> >
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