[ic] Netscape drops cart and YES I've checked the FAQ

[Samuel A. Rogers]

Bill,

I think CFM is very close to the answer for you. If I understand the 
other replies, to make cookies work you need to have to use the full 
domain name, i.e. www.deansbeans.com. I think I know what you want to do 
and correct me if I'm wrong here, but you want to tell people or just 
have them go to deansbeans.com and not have to say the full 
www.deansbeans.com. I can understand that as saying www all the time is 
a headache.

I think the solution to this problem is a DNS one. But, first in IC and 
apache (if that's what your using) I believe you'll need to say 
www.deansbeans.com. Then go to either your ISP or your domainname 
registar (I use register.com because I can edit my own domainname 
through a web interface) and have them set up the domainname of 
deansbeans.com to point (be an alias) to www.deansbeans.com. Someone 
typeing in deansbeans.com should translate it into www.deansbeans.com. 
Everyone one should be happy.

Now I'm rusty with my DNS, but if should point you in the right 
direction and I think this will solve your problem.

I am not sure that if you orginally installed and configured the IC Web 
domain to be deansbeans.com, that you'll have to reinstall. You might 
need to go into one of the parameter tables through the admin interface 
and change one or more of the path varibles from deansbeans.com to 
www.deansbeans.com. However, I am new to IC and how to change that part 
I will defer to the expert IC users.

Regards,

	SAR.

cfm@maine.com wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:18:43PM -0500, Bill Carr wrote:
> 
>>Thank you everyone for your comments. Lets look at this:
>>
>>>>In bin/interchange line 1809 there is this:
>>>>$Vend::Cfg->{VendURL}   =~ s!$real!$CGI::script_name!;
>>>>$Vend::Cfg->{SecureURL} =~ s!$real!$CGI::script_name!;
>>>
>>What are they for? If they were gone, I think my life would be easier.
> 
> 
> I did try mucking with those at one time.  "mucking" is the
> appropriate word; it gets deeper and deeper.  If I recall
> you start making spaghetti real fast.
> 
> We don't do any http://foo.com except as a redirect to
> http://www.foo.com.  Too painful.  
> 
> 
>>Here is the story I want to tell:
>>A lazy visitor comes to my site by typing deansbeans.com in their
>>browser. Then they click on a link, add an item to the cart or whatever
>>and they are follwing a link or form action to
>>http://www.deansbeans.com/ic/<whatever>. Two (or three) dots, cookies
>>are set. Netscape is happy. Cart does not drop. Sale is made.
>>
>>Background:
>>catalog_before.cfg: Variable CGI_URL /ic (I need FullURL).
>>httpd.conf: DirectoryIndex /ic/index.html
>>
>>Sorry for beating this into the ground but I have been wondering about
>>those lines for awhile and I can not figure them out. 
>>
>>>>BTW, I realize that I could do some sort of bounce (on the IC page) or
>>>>rewrite with my browser
>>>
>>                    ^^^^ Should be web server
>>
>>-- 
>>Bill Carr
>>Worldwide Impact
>>bill@worldwideimpact.com
>>413-253-6700
>>
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