I am desparately trying to find a shopping cart that I can install on my raq4i from rackshack. All I can find are .rpm packages, and I do not know how to install them. Have any of you been through this? What do I do?

To install a shopping cart is as easy as copying the files to the correct directory and configurating it. If it's written in Perl/CGI you will need to change the permissions to 755. If it's using MySQL, you will have to create a database for it if it does not automaticly do it.

On second thought, maybe you do need a .pkg file after all, hehe :D

Thanks for your response zolbian. At least I got 1 response out of 60+ people. This leads me to believe the following:

1. Most people don't know how to set up a shopping cart on a cobalt raq.
2. Most people consider setting up a shopping cart on a raq a trivial matter and not worth responding to.

Which one is it?

Snowbird122,

There are so many different types of shopping carts that you can't just say do it this way. It depends if it has a web admin interface, what language it's written in, does it use a database, cookies, modules, etc..

I understand. There all different kinds of shopping carts. I have been reading about them for days. I just haven't been having much luck because I don't know that much about the raqs or linux. I am learning though.

I found one here: www.mals-e.com that looks pretty good. It allows me to just build the site the way I want it, and then add BUY buttons that link to their shopping cart system. I will still use mysql to store my product data, buy the cart will handle all the transaction stuff.

Look into CartIt.

http://www.cartit.com

Look at what www.salescart.com has to offer

http://www.intheq.com

If you outsource your shopping cart application, be sure to check the following in your aggreement with the company:

Who owns the customer database and what can they do and not do with it?

(You don't want your provider to sale your customer list to third parties)

Do they have realtime proccessing or delayed proccessing?
(Some companies, very few these days, still do not run the numbers in real-time -- they just check to see if the account is valid and then run the numbers in batch)

If there is a security breach and cc #'s are stolen, who is liable?
(You do not want to be liable in case they get sued -- there are some companies that release themselves off all liability, which means any problems could fall on you)


What are the per transaction fees? Does this include the credit card fee? Are there monthly fees? Do you need to have your own merchant account?
(Beware, some companies have many hidden fees or do not cover the credit card percentages in their fees)


As for shopping cart software on your own machine, I would hire a security advisor to make sure you machine is secure. You do not want a breach and have credit card numbers stolen. All though, do to the size, you probably would not be targeted like big ecommerce sites, a script kiddie finding a security hole is not unreasonable. If they get in and find cc#s, you could have a huge problem.

Hi:

I've installed on my RAQ 4i a good shopping cart system and free! :)

http://www.theexchangeproject.org/

it have a lot of features and is very easy to install...
use PHP and mySQL..

Regards
Fabian

Originally posted by inet7
http://www.intheq.com


In the Q is not worth the money and way overpriced

I've only heard good things about the Exchange Project's shopping cart.

A good source for Linux/PHP software is freshmeat.net (http://freshmeat.net) - do a search there to see what else is available.

Originally posted by adnbox
Hi:

I've installed on my RAQ 4i a good shopping cart system and free! :)

http://www.theexchangeproject.org/

it have a lot of features and is very easy to install...
use PHP and mySQL..

Regards
Fabian

I believe I tried this one in my search but you are limited to the catalog looks, etc. unless you wanted to do some major changes to the scripts.

With CartIt you build your site your way and can easily implement the cart software. Ya, it costs $299.95 but if you want something great odds are your not going to find it for free...