Internet Explorer Compatibility

[emanguba]

My store comes appears fine in Firefox and Netscape. But when viewed in Internet Explorer, the borders and buttons are missing...

 

Please help...

 

I'm a novice, so be gentle...

 

site: http://www.stfu-gear.com

 

 

Thanks,

Evelyn

[♥Vger]

Check in both of your configure.php files that the http_server and http_catalog_server addresses actually say http://www.yourdomain.com.

 

IE is more exact about your site's configuration than Mozilla based browsers.

 

Vger

[emanguba]

Check in both of your configure.php files that the http_server and http_catalog_server addresses actually say http://www.yourdomain.com.

 

IE is more exact about your site's configuration than Mozilla based browsers.

 

Vger

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I checked both files and added 'www' to the prefix and refreshed the IE browser, still the same problem.

 

Do you have any other suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Evelyn

[pede0199]

I checked both files and added 'www' to the prefix and refreshed the IE browser, still the same problem.

 

Do you have any other suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Evelyn

 

I have the exact same problem with Opera vs IE6. In Opera, the pages look fine. In IE I get no images and no icons. When I look at properties for the images, I see that the URL is http:///www.mydomain.com Note that there are triple slash'es...

 

Any clues?

[♥Vger]

Firefox has better error handling capabilities than IE. This is why, when configure.php files are filled in incorrectly, Fireox will display the site but IE won't.

 

If your includes/configure.php file is filled in correctly then you should look in the includes/local/ folder to see if there is an alternative configure.php file in them (there are two 'local' folders, one in catalog, one in catalog/admin/). If you find any then rename or delete them.

 

The cause of the triple slash appearing is usually that for http_server you only have 'http://' (the rest is empty), and then for the path to the catalog you have '/catalog/' (which gives you your third forward slash).

 

Vger

[pede0199]

Hi Vger,

 

thanks for your prompt reply! :D

 

I have looked for duplicate config.php files everywhere and found none...

 

what I have found after numerous trial and error attempts is that whatever I put in the define('HTTPS_SERVER', ''); line is used even if I have define('ENABLE_SSL', false);

 

I have seen both false and 'false' used. (False is used in the default admin config.php file, and 'false' is used in the catalog config file. Which one is correct? (I have tried all possible combinations, but the result is the same...) Could it be that the keyword false is not defined properly and that it is interpreted as true regardless of what I insert? This could be a language / character set issue?

 

How come the HTTPS_SERVER path is used even if ENABLE_SSL is set to false?

 

My current catalog config.php file is:

 

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.lillevenn.no'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
 define('HTTPS_SERVER', ''); // eg, https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
 define('ENABLE_SSL', false); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?
 define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'http://www.lillevenn.no');
 define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');
 define('HTTP_COOKIE_PATH', '/butikk/');
 define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '');
 define('DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG', '/butikk/');
 define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '');
 define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
 define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');
 define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
 define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');
 define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
 define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
 define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
 define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');

 define('DIR_WS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', 'pub/');
 define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/lillev00/www/butikk/');
 define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');
 define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');

 

The admin config.php file is:

  define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.lillevenn.no'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers
 define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://www.lillevenn.no');
 define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', '');
 define('ENABLE_SSL_CATALOG', false); // secure webserver for catalog module
 define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '/home/lillev00/www/'); // where the pages are located on the server
 define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/butikk/admin/'); // absolute path required
 define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/lillev00/www/butikk/admin/'); // absolute pate required
 define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/butikk/'); // absolute path required
 define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/lillev00/www/butikk/'); // absolute path required
 define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
 define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');
 define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'images/');
 define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');
 define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');
 define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');
 define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');
 define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');
 define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');
 define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');
 define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/languages/');
 define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'images/');
 define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_MODULES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'includes/modules/');
 define('DIR_FS_BACKUP', DIR_FS_ADMIN . 'backups/');

 

 

Any help is very much appreciated! Thanks!

[♥Vger]

define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'www.lillevenn.no');

 

define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '/home/lillev00/www/butikk/');

 

Vger

[pede0199]

define('HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'www.lillevenn.no');

 

define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '/home/lillev00/www/butikk/');

 

Vger

 

Thanks for your efforts, Vger.

 

I tried changing as you suggested. No progress.

 

With the current configuration, when I right-click an image and select properties, the path displayed is http:///images/YT1339B-01.jpg

 

If I define

define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.lillevenn.no');

define('ENABLE_SSL', false);

 

the path displayed when I right click the image is

https://www.lillevenn.no/images/YT1339B-01.jpg

 

Note that this is regardless of the ENABLE_SSL setting.

 

Apparently, the image folder (and all other subfolders) use the SSL settings, even though SSL is disabled.

 

That's why I was lead to believe that false was interpreted as non zero in some way???

 

I just don't get it... :-( But thank's for helping me! I appreciate it!