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@VladMalThat's disappointing. There is still a large number of shops using the old version and they may not be ready to move to V4 yet. I think they will feel abandoned. And the older versions are still considered Oscommerce. Just my opinion but I think deleting those was a mistake.

I make myself available to support a server and relative web archive structure at my own expense that contains all the old contributions and versions of oscommerce.

I distinctly remember Vadym promising me when we skyped about V4 that the Addons for legacy osCommerce versions would remain accessible. They were available from a subdomain called apps.oscommerce.com, (previously addons.oscommerce.com). apps.oscommerce.com is now being redirected to app.oscommerce.com. It is therefore reassuring to know this content has not been deleted. I don’t quite follow the issue of it being technically impossible to keep “apps”operational on a LINUX server given subdomains can have their own PHP environments defined. Albeit the similar names would be confusing. Reverting to addons.oscommerce.com would be more workable. But if it is impossible then I suggest they be loaded to a new domain alltogether. I am happy to hand over ownership of oscommerce.cc for that use. We can imagine cc to mean community contributions, a nod to their original name. I should also point out that, apart from the fact people do need them, you use their existence in your marketing. You cannot claim to have 9,169 Addons for legacy osCommerce if they in fact no longer exist.

Are you kidding ???? Have you removed all the apps that the community has produced over the years ????? But who gave you this right ????? You bought the osCommerce brand and NOT THE WORK THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE have done over the years to support a FREE platform. Give us back all the apps and old versions. At least put an old version that you can consult

Create an archive area and not destroy 20 years of history.

+1 with @Jack_mcs Place the old addons in an archive area accessible to those who will not be able to quickly upgrade to V4 due to the absence of addons specific to their countries, like France for me. Otherwise you will very strongly limit the distribution of V4 😞

It is the final countdown to osCommerce v4!!!

Dear all, As we are about to launch osCommerce v4 live, we need to update the main site and the Forums. Thursday the 14th and Friday the 15th of July you may find both to be not fully stable. They will return to 100% stable mode by the end of the day on Friday. New additions and changes include: - new App shop (although it will go fully functional later this summer) - unified design of the site, Forums, and App shop - unified account - accounts for partners, authors, etc - new contents describing the system, partner programme, and other Have a lovely evening!

Hi Ken Mine has been running since December: The Networking Store (network-cabling.co.uk) Kind regards Steve

Download and install Xampp from here: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html The version I used was windows with php 8.1.12 It will install in the directory c:\xampp In c:\xampp\htdocs create the directory “catalog” Download the latest version of OSC4 from here: https://www.oscommerce.com/ Once downloaded unzip the files to c:\xampp\htdocs\catalog Start the xampp control panel and start Apache, MySql & Mercury In xampp control panel click on MySql admin tab – this will open xampp PhpMyAdmin where you need to create a new database and password. In your browser, navigate to localhost/catalog – This should start the installation process for OSC4 Initially the installation will fail due to a couple of services needed as follows: First PHP GD: See this link for the solution: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-install-php-gd-in-xampp/ Second PHP Extension intl: See this limk for the solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33869521/how-can-i-enable-php-extension-intl The installation may fail again when trying to install the database due to password issues – If so you may need to hard code your database password into the catalog/admin/includes/configure.php file at around line 52 The installation should now continue and complete (unless I forgot a step / adjustment somewhere….) Ok so now you can go to the browser and using localhost/catalog open your new website. BUT….. More changes are required to enable your access to your Admin / Backend as follows: Firstly from a post by @pandrei a change needed to: xampp/htdocs/catalog/admin/includes/local/configure.php and remove extra slash in these constants: define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '//oscommerce/store/admin/'); define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '//oscommerce/store'); Change to: define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/oscommerce/store/admin/'); define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/oscommerce/store'); You can now navigate to localhost/catalog/admin but the login will fail, as the Mercury email programme needs to be set up as follows: First make sure you have an email account and password set up (I created a gmail.com email account just for this purpose) Then you need to configure Mercury to send mails, there is lots of info out there, but this link is one of the most straightforward: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-configure-xampp-to-send-mail-from-localhost-using-php/ Next you need to make a change via the xampp mercury control panel, just a case of unchecking a box, which this link explains: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6809369/warning-mail-function-mail-smtp-server-response-553-we-do-not-relay-non-l You should now be able to login to your Admin / Backend – Simples! Disclaimer: As I did the install a few days ago I may have forgotten a step or change needed, so don’t blame me if it does not work or if you waste hours of time….. If it fails post here and I (or somebody who actually knows what they are doing) will try and help.

osCommerce 4.08 and THANK YOU I would like to thank all of my colleagues, who are now located in Ukraine, for their hard work in the most difficult and unimaginable circumstances! The integrity, and perseverance they demonstrate is incomparable to anything else I know. Thank you!

So the old version is.... blah, blah, blah. We get it, we know that. The new version is... blah, blah, blah. Still get it, still know that. So the >v4 addons are gone because the old version is... or is it because the new version is...? Makes no sense either way. There actually are users that actually realized the old version's of osCommerce were at EOL status, many who were probably weighing business decisions on how and when to change software. Some of those many users were probably keeping an eye on the new V4, waiting until they feel they can change and build up to meet their shops already existing requirements that there existing osCommerce shop has been customized to meet. Do you not realize how many existing users may want to look back at the old contributions they have had installed through the years? Maybe they have an issue and want to see the original code for debugging, upgrading it to work on modern server setups, etc; Maybe they want to see what it would take to "modernize" an older contribution, or completely make a new addon based on just the "idea" of an old contribution. Anyway you look at it, you alienated countless established users when taking down the old addons. You can repeat how the old version is "...", and the new version is "..." all you want, it doesn't help. People here are not dumb, they're smart enough to already know that. They're smart enough to make changes when their business allows, and they're also smart enough to find another software that will meet their business needs when the time for that change comes. Now all that was primarily the shop owner point of view in me. So how about the developer standpoint? With a quick look, on the surface, the new code shares a lot of the old code. Even makes use of a modified theme system that was an old addon, looks like maybe BTS? or something similar. So that says, hey I can take some old addons, redevelop them, and release them as new addons! But, maybe like, y'know, Holbi had the same idea. So lets just cutoff access to all those old ideas and maybe release the most popular as new and improved paid addons! You have every right to do it too. I feel like your going to push more away than you attract by removing the addons. Such a nonissue just to restore them, such a shit move not too. And believe me, people who know who I am, know I am all too familiar with shit moves and osCommerce. Either way, best of luck.

I think you're missing the point. You could have had progress and just let the old addons be. Now you risk losing both. BTW its not only the addons, but all the information that went along with each contribution people have made over 2 decades.

Those apps are also a wonderful way to learn about code and to get ideas etc. A very bad decision to remove them. Hopefully one that will be rectified.

I manually changed the configuration_key MODULE_SHIPPING_USPS_TYPES in the configuration table in the database as well. If you already made the changes in usps.php, then removing and installing the module would update the table. Seems to work ok now. Yeah, really tired of the usps api changes over the years.😠

We were able to restore access to the old osCommerce 2.x modules. They are located here: https://old.oscommerce.com/ They will be TEMPORARILY available in the read-only mode on this URL.

Wishing all osCommerce users and supporters a very Merry Christmas! It doesn't matter whether you celebrate this or that holiday, or follow this or that religion. It is about sharing love and care and rejoicing! Wishing you all to love and to be loved, to be merry these holidays! Yours, osCommerce Team

That will not be a problem - But first I need to spend a couple of days making sure its working on xampp as it should as I think there may be some minor issues.

" Support for older versions of osCommerce may be offered on these Forums, temporarily, although we encourage all users to move to the new, better, and more secure version. Support for other Ecommerce platforms and osCommerce forks WILL NOT be offered on these Forums. " I am two minded about investing the time and money in starting up a brand new domain and forum as a meeting place for people still interested in V2 osCommerce. The forum will be non commercial, for information exchange only, as osCommerce was in the beginning. How many people interested in this idea ?

We need access to the old addons now, not "shortly". If you refuse to provide access to this open source content authored by developers who offered this content for free, would you at least consider paid access? It's impossible for forum members to provide support to those in need if we can't reference the files.

Maybe a set of YouTube tutorials would be ideal? Creating a theme from scratch and possibly a cover of the features within and how to use them. I'm sorry but the Wiki is not great, both hard to understand and in some cases using a different backend than that shown in the screenshots.

Great ideas are never obsolete. Old code can easily be updated to PHP8 and made responsive. Serious mistake removing legacy addons, in my humble opinion.

Appreciate that at minimum the v2x app files will be available via FTP. If osC admin is not willing to allow the complete v2.x apps section of their website to stay alive, why not allow someone else to take over the apps website as it was using a different server and domain name? As Hotclutch mentioned, it is not just the app files, there was important information about changes to those apps. It is understandable that osC admin does not approve of using osC 2.x, but I fail to understand why osC admin has/will eliminate what has been built by the community over so many years? Many of those apps will run on updated and community osC 2.x systems that do run fine on modern server software. It is hard to trust companies that do not support their old products, even if those products are obsolete. I use old computers. I use old cell phones. I use old cars. The stairway in our home is obsolete and would not pass building code today, we still use it. I use old IP cameras, I understand there are risks when using obsolete products. I have no expectation that support by osC admin would be active, archives are fine. A FTP site is not a good archive unless it will contain all descriptive text that went along with the files, all versions of the files, and is searchable so people can find what they need, as the old apps section was.

a gross miscalculation IMO. Some people have already decided not to use V4. This action, without notice to the community even, will only reinforce that sentiment further.

Not to mention that millions of broken links are going to make it look like OsCommerce is definitely dead 😞 We should have left the apps directory in place and presented it as an archive area while placing a banner indicating that a new version of OsCommerce is available, creating the new apps directory for V4 separately, like everyone would have been happy.

Hello, thank you! 😉 Yes, some part of our team had to move to Europe when war started, some of us - went to army to defend our country, and all others - alive and still working.

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Try to change the same setting into the .user.ini file at the site root.

@Ken_Shea, @jimdanforth, @CHD-UK after unzipping, upload the attached file to the site root and open this link in the browser: https://your_site/apply_migrations.php apply_migrations.php P.S. if you don't see the Finish in the end of the page, send me a screenshot or saved html page and log files from here lib/console/runtime/logs/*.log.

If you use a currency other than Pound/Dollar/Euro then you will need to go to Admin -> Settings -> Localization -> Curruncies. This interface is simple and self explanatory. Its also very similar to V2 osCommerce. You should not have a problem adding/deleting currencies here, or setting them as Active and/or as default. Next you need to go to Admin -> Sales channels Click on the channel that you're using / configuring the currencies for. Click Edit. Scroll down to Languages & Currencies. Click Change. Make the necessary changes and click Apply. Lastly click Save at the bottom of the Sales channel page.

https://www.oscommerce.com/the-team Today I'm immensely proud to announce release of the latest version of osCommerce (4.09). Every release of your product is important, sure. But today's is a special one. As tomorrow, on the 24th, we will be reflecting on what a year in war means for us all, personally, and for our business. During that year my colleagues, most of whom are in Ukraine, were able to not only look after their families and close ones, but also work hard and very efficiently, creating and supporting multiple solutions for our international clients AND launching osCommerce 4 AND releasing its updates too. To me it demonstrates the power of will of my team, their perseverance, dedication, and strong faith in the great future of osCommerce!

Dear Andrei, thanks a lot for your feed-back. Updates both went through without any errors and I guess I can say your suggestion did the trick and solved my issue. Thumbs up!🙂

I found it! It is in Design & CMS > Translation > Search VAT and in the "TEXT_INC_VAT" key you can edit it and change "VAT" to "Tax". SOLVED! Hope this helps someone else before they pull their hair out!

Hmmm! It seems further tests have shown that the mod rewrite function with IONOS is not functioning/can’t get it to work on their server. Thanks very much to Andrei’s dedicated work in tracking this down. It seems I’m now left with the choice of having to choose another hosting company to host on my own with. Can anyone please provide any hosts that you have successfully installed and run OSC4 on? Thank you, Lorraine

Hi Ken, Regarding adding products please see the link below. https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Managing_Products Regarding Fill in Contact Information for the "Contact on web site" please see the screenshots below. Regarding Create Sales Tax only for the State of Ohio in the USA please create the tax zone for this state, then create a tax class and finally create and assign the tax rate to these tax zone and tax class. Please see the link below how to do it. Also please make sure this tax rate is assigned to all the products. https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Managing_Taxes Best regards, Ivan

From France, I wish you all a Merry Christmas with a stronger thought for the team in Ukraine.

@osCommerce-OfficialI tried installing V4 onto my local wamp server. At the start of the install there was a message that said V4 wouldn't run when apache was on Windows. I went ahead and tried it and the splash page did show up but the admin displays a denied message. I asked Andrei about it and he said it should work but to post here if I couldn't get it going. I checked all of the listed requirements and they are present. Not being able to run this locally will cause a lot of extra work and delays for developers, at least for me. Is there a way to get this to work?

Now we are talking! Enterprise-level features here. Stock. Suppliers. Warehouses! Read on to find out how osCommerce does it and why a real-life business shall seriously consider switching to osCommerce.Stock is managed in a number of different ways in osCommerce. Overall stock is the total quantity of items available to sell. Allocated stock is stock that was sold but not dispatched yet. Temp stock - stock in the shopping carts (optional). Warehouse stock - all stock in the warehouse. Supplier stock - stock available in principle from suppliers, via product feeds. And Ordered stock - stock on purchase orders. Sounds complicated? Well, it is not that much difficult to understand as it replicates any business's real-life situation with stock management. osCommerce goes several steps further, actually. It supports Suppliers and supplier product feeds, supplier price settings, etc. It supports multiple Suppliers for the same product. osCommerce supports multiple warehouses. I.e. you can have stock of the same product located in different warehouses, and can move stock between the warehouses. Or between locations in one and the same warehouse. Finally, those stock settings can be made unique for each variation of the main product, i.e. for each individual SKU. Nice isn't it?

https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Design_Technologies_and_Creating_Theme if you find anything else please share it in this post. i am finding it very hard to figure out (learn) how the new themes and layout works. where things are, what does what. etc. i will figure it out (but i feel others wont) i really think its important for devs. to focus help content like how to videos on the subject, even if its a simple screen cap. of doing stuff so people can reference it. without people being able to mod the looks of their site they wont use it. i will try share what i can learn, and leave a end user guide to help the next person if i can. (no disrespect intended, just feedback)

Yes, you as admin can decide what you want, but as user like us, when we are not ready to move on the new plate form and it is not right you just disable the old addons while we are still rely on those addons to make our old version website working. Also we have the right to use old version, you just dont need to support, why need to disable the old addone links? The reason we use oscommerce these years is that lots of experts here gave their great support free and share their addons free. If you want to make money, that is fair enough, but not continue to support the old version website and disable addons, yes, I feel like we are abandoned and not respected. After this frustrated and disappointed new update, I dont think I will not continue to use osCommerce any more. And special Thank You to the old version Oscommerce and experts who kindly share their time, knowledge and help, sorry you did not earn money from me but you earn respect from me.

The problem is that you have removed access to addons from V2 and V4 has no addons available. Almost no store works with the default configuration. Each store has its specificities and needs certain addons to live and develop while waiting to be able to use V4. For many of us, the online store is the only source of income. Without the necessary addons, the revenue stream drops or stagnates, which is not in our interest. A V4 without addons is of little interest except to become familiar with its operation, but that's not what brings money into our pockets.

What is osCommerce 4.0? How it was created and why? What is the team behind osCommerce? How was osCommerce released during the war in Ukraine? All of this and more in the video interview, done by David Goodale of Merchant Accounts (Canada): Visit https://www.merchant-accounts.ca/oscommerce-version-4-re-building-the-classic-open-source-e-commerce-platform.php for the full video and transcript!

To make it easier for everyone to start with the new version of osCommerce, we have implemented a so called "try before use" approach. It is not your usual "try before buy" as osCommerce is free. And so, to allow merchants and developers spend time on learning new features we made it possible for everyone to have osCommerce installed on one of our servers, FREE of charge. FTP and DB access provided! There, you will be able to try all the new features of osCommerce and not worry about server software or configurations. https://www.oscommerce.com/host-with-oscommerce Once you know osCommerce is for you (or for your clients) - you will be able to move your copy, with all of your changes and settings - to your own server or stay and keep using osCommerce hosting - the choice is yours. You're given at least 1 month to work with osCommerce and decide how to proceed with it. More info is available in this blog post: https://www.oscommerce.com/blog/try-before-use-oscommerce Any questions - please post them here! More updates to come!

Totally! In fact it is already available for download off the main website. It is just the forum post has not been posted yet as we are dealing with some minor teething issues. Once those are all resolved we will be updating the Forum accordingly.

I agree totally - and i am convinced only by making / keeping the old apps available we can build back a vivid community for V4. Old V2 users will never come back once they find out there is nothing for them left here ... By engaging them in the OSC V2 they can learn about V4 - and step up to V4... Just my 2 cents.

Thanks to everyone for picking up on this. As I understand it, USPS gained their trademark registration for the terms "Priority Mail" and "Priority Mail Express" hence the change from a trademark to a registered trademark. Note that the International services are still not registered so we have that change to deal with at some time in the future. As noted above, any instances of TM for these services need to change to RM. However in some other USPS module versions, you would be changing tradmrk to regimark. And it is only matters if you actually use these services (although it makes sense for all USPS users to patch their modules). Hope this helps some poor soul in the future especially now the Add Ons are gone. I have taken the liberty of adding the zip file that Tom provided to our blog post in case it disappears from here. See https://www.ozeworks.com/usps-does-it-again/

I do hope that the archive of apps is made available again someway, sometime soon. I was caught by surprise by the disappearance. I do like the version of osC I am using, it is working to my satisfaction. I did try a beta install of v4 and found it complicated. Understanding that it is dated, I like the simplicity of osC 2.3.4, it is not stuffed with things I will never need. I would like to update/add a few things and now can not do that. I think it may be a good thing if the new owners would allow the archive be hosted separately, as rainton (thank you) is suggesting. I understand the new owner's claim to the right to do as they wish with this website since they apparently gave money for the osCommerce name. I do think it would be considerant of them to have offered access to the old system that so many people have put their time and effort into without asking for payment. I don't think those people were aware that someone owns their work given the openness that this website has had in the past. But, this is the way things often are. Far too many companies do not support old products in any way, or even keep documentation of old products available even though the products are still in use.

I wish I had known to check the forums a long time ago, because I updated the USPS module myself to the rate api v4, and intl rate api v2, and I did all the work of upgrading to https all by myself. I think you'll like my solution to the service names problem. Back when I upgraded the module in 2020 I wrote some regular expressions to match the basic service types without having to worry about whether it was Priority Mail one-day, or two-day (let alone whether it was TM or RM), and since that time it still works without me having to modify those regexes to keep up with USPS' changes. The only caveat is that my module assumes you have access to commercial plus pricing. The other downside is that the allowed service types are hard coded into the module instead of having radio button selections of which services are allowed. usps.php

osCommerce v4 public demo has been made available on the 1st of June 2022. You're welcome to explore its 4 front ends and back end at https://demo.oscommerce.com osCommerce v4 FREE shopping cart is coming very soon!

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