Customer can NOT create an account

[cerberus1]

First Id like to say how impressed I am at this project, truly great work.

My problem is that a customer account can only be successfully created

from a machine on the same network. When anyone trys to create an account

from an external location the account creation page just repaints itself.

My understanding of MYSQL is admittedly limited so I created/used an account that has full permissions and can supposedly connect from anywhere (although that subject is somewhat alien to me)... but to no avail. My ISP blocks 80 so I use a web redirect from no-ip and everything works fine until its time to purchase something and subsequently create an account.

Any input is welcome

Thank you

[Guest]

best bet is to follow it thru from the server logs, see where the program is going.

[cerberus1]

I seem to have goton past this issue.

I was using no-ip to redirect to a high port becasue my ISP blocks 80 ... this was fine except for the fact that a client could not create an account.

So what I did was SSL the entire site which is only for orders anyways and people link to it from a completely different site.

So now instead of connecting to http://myname.net/catalog and being redirected through no-ip to http://myredirectname:9999/catalog I just link to httpS://myname.net/catalog and I connect on 443 which is not blocked by my ISP.

I was going to encrypt the connection anyways (just later on in the process).

In the install of the cart I set the address of the mysql server as http://myname.com and the URL of the site as https://myname.com, I also needed to place a check,mark in "Enable SSL"

Phew ... Ive been wrestling with this for a week and success feels good !

Once again ... kudos to a fine project .. and Thank you for your contribution to the open source community.

[cerberus1]

oops ... I meant to say "myname.com" not "http://myname.com" for the address of my mysql server.... I also placed an entry in my /etc/hosts file for "myname.com" to point to its internal address although Im not sure if I needed to.