Hi Rod

Earlier on in this topic ( http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...1&postcount=15 ) you mentioned that, if we couldn't get our hosting service to allow scripted access to http://austpost.vcsweb.com, we could make the changes below to the /includes/modules/shipping/austpost.php file.
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Quote Originally Posted by RodG View Post
G'day Redmonds,

Resave the file and see if if the error goes away. If it does, you can then choose to either define your own 'fixed costs' . This is done by editing/uncomment the code that reads

/* Fees as of December 2007
costPrePaid3k=9.30
costPrePaid500g=5.30
costCOD=9.30
costREGaus=2.70
costREGints=10.85
costREGintl=17.50
costLETaus=50,1.00,1.45,2.45
costLETint=1.95,3.85,5.80,11.60
costINS=1.20,1.20,5.50,2.00
*/
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My hosting service (GoDaddy) replied to my request as follows:
". . . It appears you are attempting to have an outside source connect to your website. From your description, you may be trying to make an external connection to your site's databases. Unfortunately, this is disabled on our shared hosting environment and cannot be enabled. Your sites databases can only be accessed and written to from your hosting account. . . . "

I guess this means I'm not able to access the AP server. I tried editing my austpost.php file as you mentioned but the result is that, after adding a product to the shopping cart, when I click on "checkout" the whole site disappears - i.e. the next page is a total blank. If I revert to the original austpost.php code, the cart works properly again except for the "ERROR:Unable to obtain a valid quote from the Australia Post Server." message in the Shipping Method section.

I notice that the relevant lines in my austpost.php file are slightly different from the above, in that each of my lines is preceded with a "$" sign - e.g.
// $costPrePaid3k=9.30 ;
// $costPrePaid500g=5.30 ;
etc.

I've tried removing just the "//" as well as "// $" but in each case I get a blank screen after clicking on "checkout".

My site is www.lakinplates.com

Do you have any suggestions for me?

Kind regards

Geronimo - Philip