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.

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The password reset script only resets the password, not the username.
You can either look in the mySQL database (table hesk_users) for the username or use the password reset script again, but open it in Notepad first and change

`pass`=’499d74967b28a841c98bb4baaabaad699ff3c079′

to this:

`user`=’Administrator’

Then you can use the default info to login;
User: Administrator
Pass: admin

PROBLEM: Once a customer logs in and checks out an order, they cannot go further because of this message “There is no carrier available that will deliver to this address!”

You may wonder why this is happening even after you have created a carrier and saved it as a default.

Quick solution: Go to Admin > shipping > Carriers. Make sure you have set up your carrier and save it as the default carrier, then go to the >  Price 0r > Weight tabs  just above on the menu.  Add a price rage  or weight range.

Please note that this must be realistic with the range of prices and weights in your store. It’s better to set a range for one and then click on >Shipping tab,

Select a radio button to reflect  billing according to weight or price  as you have chosen and then just below  where you find this text “Fees by carriers”, select the default carrier and save the page. Now test your clients account again and you should be okay.

If you are having problems with this , feel free to leave a comment here and we will answer it.

HESK is free PHP Help Desk Software that runs with MySQL, allowing you to quickly and easily set up a Web—based ticket support system for your Web site.

Install HESK for your Web site, so your customers can quickly and easily submit support tickets. This will also let your staff benefit from an easy-to-use Web interface to help you better manage customer support requests.

You’ll love HESK—users say they like this script because it is so easy to use, simple, secure and a FREE alternative to commercial (read $200+) Help Desk Software. Use HESK’s simple-to-install script that takes care of your database setup and lets you get your help desk up and running quickly and with very little effort.

Phpautomembersarea comes with an easy installer that does the job automatically for you,  you would be surprised at how easy this can go.

Sorry for not updating this blog since december 2009 but i would like to use this opportunity to thank you all for the support and wishing you all a happy new year. Also recently we had a broken link problem with our blog but we are now back and this year you would enjoy this blog.

Now recently i have been trying to use up some membership scripts  and i have come across a few good free ones and would be blogging them for now. If you own a website that you would like to extend into site membership for your users, there are couple of them that would do the job but my advice is to try them out one by one.

Locked Area is one of the most popular that runs on perl and has options of mysql. To be frank i installed this and ran into some problems but i’m sure it was my lack of concentration on the installation process as the script is a proven script but try and see if you can use it yourself and we will be happy to read your comments here.

Locked Area Membership script

Download image flow from imageflow.nl and then upload it to the folder you would like to use it  on your server

Find and open the css file sreen.css and if you know css very well you can tweak the page the way you want , in this case i wanted to just embedd the page on my blog as part of the blog.

Find this line in your screen.css file

#imageflowstart {
max-width: 600px;
width: auto !important;
width: 600px;
min-height:310px;
height:auto !important;
height:310px;
margin-left:0px;
position: relative;
background-color:#000;
padding: 0px 0px;
text-align:center;

The highlighted margin-left:0px; should be adjusted till it fits the page the way you want, as you can see i left it at “0px” because i wanted it to align to the left of the page entirely for the embedding purpose.

Find and do the same for the  css code below;

#main {
max-width: 600px;
width: auto !important;
width: 600px;
min-height:150px;
height:auto !important;
height:150px;
margin-left:0px;
}

Please note you can manipulate the whole css file the way you want but in this case i just needed to tweak the two parts of the css code to get what i wanted.

Afterwards i used the <iframe> </iframe> tag to embedd the page where i want. Please note that the embedd parameters were  set to “0″because i wanted it to embedd neatly as part of the page without a scroll button.

Here is the embedded code below;

<iframe src="http://bloggingyoutube.com/themes/garland/index.php" style="width:500px; height: 480px"
scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" vspace="0" hspace="0">
</iframe> <br />

Hope this helps out.

The main features of 7-Zip

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  • Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 74 languages

7-ZIP

Now let’s leave every other thing behind and see how this can be done;

If you meet this error, simply open up a notepad, put this text in it register_globals = off , exactly like that, then save the file as php.ini and then upload the file to your root folder and that should be the answer to your problems hopefully.

Not only do this php.ini problem apply only to Drupal, it also applies to other similar problems with similar php built database driven sites.

DRUPAL

Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform.

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.