If you’d like to change your shell to bash you can first view your shell by entering the following at the command line:

echo $SHELL

To change your shell to bash you’ll need to know it’s location. For FreeBSD enter the following to change your shell:

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash

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Below are some notes on how I implemented Google eCommerce Tracking with my osCommerce store. You can view Google’s instructions on enabling e-commerce tracking here:

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55528

In order to add Google transactions tracking to my osCommerce store I needed to edit both the checkout_success.php and footer.php files. I edited both these files because I’m already using Google […]

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There is sometimes confusion with the setup of state specific tax rates with osCommerce. For instance if you are charging state taxes shipped within state for such states as Ohio (OH) or California (CA) then you need to assure that a few settings are correctly configured.
The primary issue is that even after setting up the […]

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There’s been huge issues with Flash 9 and embedded flash videos either not playing at all or playing without sound. This problem is sometimes associated with Firefox not playing video sounds, YouTube embedded videos not playing, and with Flash 9 itself.
There’s some fixes out there requireing updates to the registry, updates to the Flash player […]

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Updating shipping options have some specials rules due to it being a custom module. I’ve listed the text below from the module’s README file for further reading.
Updating shipping methods require the following steps.
Uninstall Table Rate Shipping Module (in Admin)
=> open up the admin at www.domain.com/badminton/
=> select Modules => select Shipping
=> select Shipping Table Rate
=> select […]

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There is a minor issue with osCommerce when using either 3rd party or ssl certificates assigned to a sub-domain which results in an error reading “Your Shopping Cart is empty!”. This happens when ENABLE_SSL is set to true in the configuration file. There has been some discussion on the osCommerce Forums regarding “Shopping cart empty […]

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