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Making SalesCart-X Secure in FrontPage

If you are using Microsoft FrontPage as your web design tool, follow this section. If you have a different design tool, skip to the next section.

  1. Open your SalesCart Web in your web design tool.
  2. Click and open the /sc-bin folder.
  3. Double click on the view1.php file, and view in Normal/Design mode.
  4. Click the Order Now Button to highlight the button and then Right-Click and select Form Properties. You should see a dialog box like this.
  5. Click on the Options button.
  6. Change the Action: box from details1.php to the absolute URL for your website. For example, if your domain name is www.mycompany.com, you would change the action to https://www.mycompany.com/sc-bin/details1.php as seen below. When the customer clicks on the Order Now button, they will be forwarded to the secure version of the order form.
  7. Making SalesCart Secure (SalesCart X) 2

Note: There is a performance penalty for accessing webpages that are secure. You should return your customer back to un-secure webpages by specifying an http address instead of an https address as soon as the order has been completed on the receipt.php page.

See Also

Security and SSL

Obtaining an SSL certificate

Making SalesCart-X Secure in Macromedia

Using a shared SSL certificate with SalesCart-X