OScommerence and PHP5

[vdospec]

It seems we had to modify some files to get OSC to work with PHP5, it is working now but the mail system is not working, it will not send an order or send anything out. Anyone know why? We also have XCart 4.01 and it also does not send out any email but works fine.

 

anyone can help or point me to the direction of other posts that have answers?

 

thanks again

 

mike

[Iggy]

I'm running a test install on php5 and mail works. An issue with your php config maybe?

 

Iggy

[♥Vger]

You should not have needed to modify the later versions of osCommerce to work with PHP5, and as you have this email problem on two carts it doesn't seem likely that it's an osCommerce problem.

 

Vger

[vdospec]

I'm running a test install on php5 and mail works. An issue with your php config maybe?

 

Iggy

 

Well everything else works on our servers..except osc mail and xcart mail. regular mail works great thises are only problems we have found.

 

Which file of the later version do you install that will no screw up the rest of OSC? I'm a little worried about doing it.

[Iggy]

Just grab the latest zip and install it as a test. My guess though is it's not an issue with osC.

 

Iggy

[vdospec]

Just grab the latest zip and install it as a test. My guess though is it's not an issue with osC.

 

Iggy

 

why have i read about others with the same problem then?

[♥Vger]

The fact that regular mail works fine has absolutely nothing to do with osCommerce or any other shopping cart.

 

The fact that you have two carts and that the mail facilities on both of them don't work should tell you that it is not the carts but some problem with Sendmail (Apache Server) or SMTP (Windows Server), or the settings you have for them in those carts.

 

If this is a Windows Server then check with your hosts to find out if osCommerce needs to have SMTP Authentication added to be able to send mail via the site's SMTP service.

 

In your osC admin panel make sure that you are using mail addresses based on your domain e.g. [email protected] and not external mail addresses like [email protected]

 

Also enter the mail addresses as [email protected] and not as osCommerce says e.g. Sales<[email protected]> because many servers choke on that way of entering the mail address.

 

Vger

[vdospec]

The fact that regular mail works fine has absolutely nothing to do with osCommerce or any other shopping cart.

 

The fact that you have two carts and that the mail facilities on both of them don't work should tell you that it is not the carts but some problem with Sendmail (Apache Server) or SMTP (Windows Server), or the settings you have for them in those carts.

 

If this is a Windows Server then check with your hosts to find out if osCommerce needs to have SMTP Authentication added to be able to send mail via the site's SMTP service.

 

In your osC admin panel make sure that you are using mail addresses based on your domain e.g. [email protected] and not external mail addresses like [email protected]

 

Also enter the mail addresses as [email protected] and not as osCommerce says e.g. Sales<[email protected]> because many servers choke on that way of entering the mail address.

 

Vger

 

This is a Fedora 5 server, mail settings are as you say.

[vdospec]

This is a Fedora 5 server, mail settings are as you say.

 

we just installed a NEW TEST Store, from teh new release of OSC and it sill does no send out mail as many report on google..

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=....oscommerce.com

[♥Vger]

Fedora has a lot of problems. Use something else. How about centOS, which is a mirror of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

 

Vger

[vdospec]

Fedora has a lot of problems. Use something else. How about centOS, which is a mirror of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

 

Vger

 

It's not that easy to switch..everything else works fine except osc and x cart, they are the only things that do not work, I also noticed another php script not sending email

[♥Vger]

they are the only things that do not work

 

does not gel with:

 

I also noticed another php script not sending email

 

This is a server issue and not an osCommerce one. You'd be better off posting on a specialist forum for people trying to manage their own servers.

 

Vger

[vdospec]

Fedora has a lot of problems. Use something else. How about centOS, which is a mirror of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

 

Vger

 

problem is that probally has php5 also whih really seems to be the real problem..

[vdospec]

does not gel with:

This is a server issue and not an osCommerce one. You'd be better off posting on a specialist forum for people trying to manage their own servers.

 

Vger

 

where is that forum located?

[vdospec]

I'm running a test install on php5 and mail works. An issue with your php config maybe?

 

Iggy

 

Whtat could posibly be needed to set, it was a new install??

[vdospec]

The fact that regular mail works fine has absolutely nothing to do with osCommerce or any other shopping cart.

 

The fact that you have two carts and that the mail facilities on both of them don't work should tell you that it is not the carts but some problem with Sendmail (Apache Server) or SMTP (Windows Server), or the settings you have for them in those carts.

 

If this is a Windows Server then check with your hosts to find out if osCommerce needs to have SMTP Authentication added to be able to send mail via the site's SMTP service.

 

In your osC admin panel make sure that you are using mail addresses based on your domain e.g. [email protected] and not external mail addresses like [email protected]

 

Also enter the mail addresses as [email protected] and not as osCommerce says e.g. Sales<[email protected]> because many servers choke on that way of entering the mail address.

 

Vger

 

Are you using PHP5??? seems like alot of folks cannot get answers about osc and php5