Testing the installation - Cart Empty

[epanagio]

I just finished the installation and I want to "play" with the sample products that came with the installation. When I select a product and click on the "Add this to my cart" I then see the message "Your Shopping Cart is empty." What have I missed and I can't put an item in the shopping cart?

[stevesh]

And this is a bone-stock Zencart installation, no mods, no custom template, no SSL ? And installed how?

[epanagio]

We added a template, Blue Highlites 2.0. The template was installed by extracting the data and copying to the web server. I can go through the template selection process and select one of several that we installed but the problem is the same.

After I press the button there is a popup that says "Security Warning. Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by a third party. Are you sure you want to continue sending this information?"

Is this the problem?

[stevesh]

Could be. Is the whole site under SSL? If so, what happens if you turn it off by editing the configure.php file ?

[epanagio]

The whole site is under ssl.
I edited the includes/configure.php file and set define('ENABLE_SSL', 'false'); I cleared the cache and cookies, reloaded the page and after I selected the "add this to my cart" button I got the same message.

[epanagio]

I looked at the source and realized that in the html there are liks that are in the clear:
<base href="http://secure.--domain--name.com/" />
<link rel="canonical" href="http://secure.--domain--name.com/" />

I will have to edit the templates to correct that and then I will try to use the cart again.

Evan

[DrByte]

Unless your template files have it hard-coded in them, Zen Cart builds those URLs from the HTTP_SERVER setting in your configure.php file.

[epanagio]

Strange. I tested 6 templates and the header information appears to be exactly the same. Is there a way to select the default template that the zen-cart software came with? Could it be that there was something configured poorly during the installation?

[epanagio]

I am reading that the template HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HTML IN THE PAGE(S)!!!! According to zen-cart "This template set is designed to be easily modified using only the style sheet to change colors, fonts, and the store logo. Three images are required; logo.jpg, header_bg.jpg, and tile_back.gif." So, if the template is nothing else than a css file why would this have an effect on the html found in the header area?

[epanagio]

In the includes/configuration.php I changed define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://secure.randrbuyandsell.com') to be https and that fixed the problem. Had nothing to do with the css.