Subdomain appearing in a FRAMESET

**jarlee** · 13 Sep 2012, 08:47 PM

Would it be wrong to setup a shop as a subdomain, like the shop.mywebsite.com referring to www.mywebsite.com/shop?
My problem appears when I ask for the source code (right mouse click), and it tells me that the site is using frames (which I do not use, and I am pretty sure it's not in the default Zen Cart installation).
It also tells me that I have a problem with foreign language characters, because the 'main page' does not have a CHARSET in sync with the MySQL database.

The source code is not Zen Carts, but is like:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html><head><title>shop.mywebsite.com</title></head><frameset rows="100%"><frame src="http://www.mywebsite.com/shop">
<noframes><p>Your user agent does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. However
you may visit <a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/shop">the page that was supposed to be here</a></p></noframes></frameset></html>

This might be a standard solution for a subdomain setup, but will cause problems with foreign languages, or am I missing something?

**stevesh** · 13 Sep 2012, 08:59 PM

Subdomains are fine, but yoursite.com/shop might be better. Zencart will not install anything in a frame. A link to the actual site would help.

**jarlee** · 13 Sep 2012, 10:10 PM

Thanks for the answer, I know it's not a problem inside Zen Cart, it is just something I encountered during the setup.
Even on the admin pages, the 'FRAMESET' message appears, and might cause problems with getting foreign characters to work.

Try visiting: http://shop.astridsoase.no/ instead of http://www.astridsoase.no/

It is not specific for this website, try it on a vanilla Zen Cart installation, and it will behave the same.

**stevesh** · 14 Sep 2012, 04:56 AM

Sorry, but I'm not seeing any mention of 'frameset' in the source of that page.

**RodG** · 14 Sep 2012, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by jarlee

Would it be wrong to setup a shop as a subdomain, like the shop.mywebsite.com referring to www.mywebsite.com/shop?

Nothing wrong at all. In fact of all the various setup possibilities this is my preferred method.

Originally Posted by jarlee

This might be a standard solution for a subdomain setup, but will cause problems with foreign languages, or am I missing something?

No it's not standard at all. Furthermore I'm not seeing any framesets on your pages either. Perhaps try a different browser? What browser plugins do you use? Perhaps one of these is inserting the framesets?

Cheers
Rod

**jarlee** · 14 Sep 2012, 03:41 PM

Thanks for looking :)

This is getting more difficult to explain than I thought, sorry for being a little bit obfuscated.

I use Firefox (latest) normally, and (tx for the remark to try other browsers, I already used IE on it), it seems that IE does not have a problem with this. I build in an 'escape from frame' javascript, and this solves my personal problem with the hoster to redirect in frames (or so it seems). Zen Cart doesn't care for frames and behaves correctly, so no problem there, it is just getting more difficult to setup the foreign language support, if I cannot control all HTML settings from the beginning on.
I have two settings at the host I can use to have the subdomain installed. A web-alias, and a web-forward, and the alias seemed the right one to use. I'll try the other, and see if that would fit my setup better.

Thanks all.