Shopping Cart error - Never seen this before

[randomdesign]

Hi,

 

I have been using osCommerce on my site since August of 2006 and I have never seen this error before. Today I was puzzled to find out that when you go on my site and start randomly clicking on different tabs (not "add to cart" tabs) after a while you should see your shopping cart start filling up with random items from the catalog.

I have never seen this before and I believe it did not happen before today. I went to the Who's Online option in the Admin page and I found out that when the shopping cart starts filling up at random it always belongs to the same "Guest" user with this criterias:

 

05:50:21 0 Guest 66.45.38.59 13:51:02 19:41:14 /catalog/login.php?osCsid=cebade473d6fd32ffbf3ec2738f19ed1

 

what strange is that even though this problem happens to different guests on my website with different ip addresses the time of entry is always the same "13:51:02 " it seems that the bug is jumping from guest user to guest user and assigns that guest user old time of entry - 13:51:02

 

I do not know if what i am saying makes any sense. But this is what I am seeing.

 

Please go to www.wesellsupplies.com and check this out for your self.

 

I am very puzzled and I dont know what to do with it

[randomdesign]

Additional information:

 

Yesterday I have installed osCommerce_PayPal_IPN_v2.2 on my site.

 

All I have done was uploaded ipn.php and paypal_ipn.php in to appropriate folders. I never edited or changed any of the existing documents.

 

I have tested everything and everything seemed to work fine.

 

When I saw the error in Shopping Cart today I have errased all of the files associated with osCommerce_PayPal_IPN_v2.2 module but that did not fix the problem

[wheeloftime]

Additional information:

 

Yesterday I have installed osCommerce_PayPal_IPN_v2.2 on my site.

 

All I have done was uploaded ipn.php and paypal_ipn.php in to appropriate folders. I never edited or changed any of the existing documents.

 

I have tested everything and everything seemed to work fine.

 

When I saw the error in Shopping Cart today I have errased all of the files associated with osCommerce_PayPal_IPN_v2.2 module but that did not fix the problem

Check your (catalog)/includes/configure.php and (catalog)/admin/includes/configure.php if sessions are written to the database.

  define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'mysql'); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'mysql'

If you are on a shared hosting make sure you create your own temp directory and use that for caching files.

[randomdesign]

Check your (catalog)/includes/configure.php and (catalog)/admin/includes/configure.php if sessions are written to the database.

  define('STORE_SESSIONS', 'mysql'); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'mysql'

If you are on a shared hosting make sure you create your own temp directory and use that for caching files.

 

Hi,

 

I have checked both places and the code is there. Therefore I assume that the sessions are written in to the database given the fact that it was working fine before i had installed the PayPal module. I am using Bluehost as my hosting provider, I am not sure what you mean by "creating a temp directory and catching files". Please explain.

 

Thank you for your help!

[wheeloftime]

Hi,

 

I have checked both places and the code is there. Therefore I assume that the sessions are written in to the database given the fact that it was working fine before i had installed the PayPal module. I am using Bluehost as my hosting provider, I am not sure what you mean by "creating a temp directory and catching files". Please explain.

 

Thank you for your help!

I was refering to the caching option (admin->configuration->Caching). If you use the feature preferably have it pointed to your own created temp directory. Maybe your host has changed some settings as I do not see any relation between the Paypal module and this strange behavior all of a sudden.