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I would have to be quick here before it skips my memory. Now after installing Jooma VirtueMart and trying to register as a user, you may experience problems where the user registration keeps looping back to the registration form  after you click “send” .

SOLUTION: Simply change the email address when registering as joomla VirtueMart has no error message to tell you that the email is already in the database. Most Admins would tend to use the same  email registered during installation to try out a user account.

This is an extract from a post on how the problem was solved.

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So I finally found that it’s posted clearly here in several threads…For anyone still facing these registration issues…

It’s not a bug that needs fixed, you just have to have your settings correct:

• Joomla > Site > Global Configuration > System: “Allow User Registration” is turned ON
• Joomla > Site > Global Configuration > System: “New User Account Activation” is turned OFF
• Joomla > Extensions > Module Manager: Disable standard Joomla Login
  (*Note: I was also using the YooTheme YooLogin and had to disable it as well)
• VirtueMart > Admin > Configuration: set your “User Registration Type”
  (I was able to use “Normal” and “Silent” without problems)
• *ALSO NOTE* – I had to make sure my Joomla/VM/server email was working properly as well, before the user registration would work. For me that meant going into the Joomla > Site > Global Configuration > Server: and setting my “Mail From” to an email address that was @ the same domain/server as my Joomla/VM site.

My issue was this:  Whenever a new customer would add an item to their cart, then begin the checkout process, they were not able to register and create a new account.  After completing the fields, then clicking “Send Registration” they were shot back to the registration page again.  After changing the above settings (disabling the modules was my big hangup), things are working perfectly.

If anyone still needs more info, this post basically explains things in detail:  
CLICK HERE ”

Hope this helps out!

For most of us hoping to use Oscommerce3  for our ecommerce system, there is little distubing thing with it after post installation but dont worry it’s also easy to debug. Normally after installing Oscommerce, you would be asked to delete the install folder for security purpose and also to change the permission on the configure.php file to read only.

But the following type  messages appear to be difficult to get rid  of;

• Number of queries: 19 [0s]
• Execution Time: 0.078s [osC_Services_debug]

Dont worry it’s easy, Here is the solution

Go to your Admin, > then go to Modules(on top menu in your admin) > choose Services > When the window opens , then choose to uninstall the “Debug” in the list by clicking on the icon uninstall linked to it.

Now refresh your store page and this should be fixed.

This is just a quick one , i know most of the people using outlook already know this but this is meant for those curious ones. Outlook express has what they call a distribution list, if you want to import email list from a word document to your distribution list. The most important thing and which might be the hardest thing here is to make sure all your email addresses ends in a semi colon, you may have to do this manually. It is even more demanding when outlook tells you to go back and edit an email address by adding semi colon to it.

At the same time it’s all very easy , just follow the link here for a guide and then after you have succeeded with it, follow this link here for a guide on how to send an email to a distribution list.

Hope this helps out!

Just a little tip for my good readers using joomla. Recently  an email from one of my clients hosting provider came  informing him that his site has been suspended due to his site overloading the entire server. As a seriously growing website, you would not want your site to be offline for even a minute.

One of the reason why it is good to rent your server from an established hosting provider is the fact that they are used to most problems and would normally work with you to take care of the problem.

The culprit was simply the joomla cache that was turned off. If you turn on the joomla cache option from the joomla admin > Site >  Global configuration >System > Cache Setting.  Joomla would generate a file saved on your computer that can be called up when ever it is requested instead of stressing the server all the time if requests are made. In order to avoid this happening to your site, it’s better to turn it on after installation.

Please visit Joomla Hacks for more info.