MemberSpeed Cart and cPanel
joe @ July 29, 2008
Shopping Cart Series
- 1.Quick Start Guide
- 2.System Variables – Setup
- 3. Configurations-Edit Event Mailers
- 4a.Tax Collection and Tracking
- 4b.Shipping Setup
- 5a.Add Product To Cart- Step 1: Add Category
- 5b.Add Product To Shopping Cart- Step2
- 6.Log & Reports – Usage
- 7.Shopping Cart Members/Maling List – Your Own Virtual ATM
- 8.Taking Your Website/Shopping Cart Viral…
- Shopping Cart Advanced Tips
- MemberSpeed Cart and cPanel
- VIP Cart Manual
As I write this cPanel has just released a new update, this update addresses has several security issues.
I have noticed if you have the design directory permissions set to 777 you shoping cart pages will not display correctly. Simply change your design directory permissions to 755, this should correct the problem.
I was experiencing this issue with on of my sites, when I checked the error logs, I found this error message:
[error] [client xx.xxx.xx.xxx] SoftException in Application.cpp:544: Directory “/home/mydomain/public_html/design/control” is writeable by group, referer: http://www.mydomain.com/control/welcome.php
After I changed the permissions on my design directory the problem was corrected…
Joe
Filed under: 09.Shopping Cart
Actually Joe,that’s not due to a cPanel update but rather a configuration change on your server.
If your PHP is configured to run as a CGI module (with phpsuexec), then you are not allowed to have folders/files writeable by “world” (and it is not required) because under this configuration, the web server runs as “you” instead of “nobody” which is the default if you are running PHP as an Apache module.
In any case, the above is relevant to any hosting platform running Apache/PHP – not only cPanel. Your hosts may update your cPanel but will most likely not switch your PHP to run as a CGI module as it can impact heavily on existing scripts.