Adding osCommerce to existing web site

[johanbo]

Merry Christmas to all!

 

How do I add osCommerce to an existing web site?

 

Thanks for quick help.

 

Johanbo

[Jack_mcs]

You install the oscommerce package into a sub-directory and then add a link on your existing site to the sub-directory. A better way is to replace your site comletely with oscommerce, although this requires much more work.

 

Jack

[Guest]

HI there...

Jack's advice is exactly right. However, you might want to ask your bank clearinghouse where you have credit cards processed, what is their security policy.

Why?

In Europe, the newly emerging security standard is to offer a 100% transaction guarantee against fraud for both the merchant and the customer if using the European version of VISA 3D Secure and MasterCard SecureCode on credit and debit card sales. Few banks have it yet, (and only in Europe, to our knowledge, so far). It is our understanding that it is not available in the US/Canadian banks, yet (but you should check their latest offers). We love this solution, but one of the checkoff requirements, however, is to require that merchants have their non-secure pages and the secure pages on physically separate servers. Yes, this can be a hassle and a real cost consideration, but having a button point to the secure pages (on another SSL server) is the same hassle to set up as using a sub domain (maybe less!). Certainly, it is a something to think about. In parallel, I have read comments here in the Forum that if all the pages of your site are behind an effective SSL security wall, your site will be "hard to get spidered properly" by the leading search engines like Google and Yahoo (somebody wrote in the Forum). We have no benchmark experience in php SEO, so we are counting on the wealth of experience of real experts, here, of course. We understand that in php it can be hard to do SEO behind SSL, if you are not experienced at SEO in php, and that too is a consideration, unless of course (like so many real gurus here) you really know php and SEO. For us, we are taking the vanilla route, so to speak of 'heavy SEO' for the html non-secure pages, and 'total lockdown' for the SSL pages (on a separate server) in php for osCommerce, (which we love!) Good luck. Everything has its tradeoffs and the accompanying commensurate workloads...