See www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpasptechnical.htm for a summary of the hundreds of Shopping cart facilities you can use.
Installation should only take 5 minutes.
When you receive VP-ASP it will be in the form of a zip file. You will need a utility such as WinZip to uncompress the one file into 200+ files.
All are files stored in a single folder. The steps to install are:
1. Unzip files to a folder of your choice on your PC or web host.
2. Tell Windows where you just installed the files if running on your own PC.
3. Optionally update file shop$config.asp to tell VP-ASP the location and type of database you plan to use.
Install is complete
Documentation
Developer's guide | http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpasp500developer.zip |
Merchant's Guide | http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog.vpasp500merchant.zip |
Option Package Guide | http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpasp500optiondesign.zip |
Add-ons Guide | http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpasp500addonsdesign.zip |
Technical specifications | http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpasptechnical.htm |
Customer Sites | http://www.vpasp.com/demos/vpaspsites |
Forum | http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpaspforum |
Additional Help | http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/helpdesk |
ASP (Active Server Pages) is Microsoft's programming language for the Internet. VP-ASP is a combination of ASP files and plain HTML files. To use ASP you need a web browser and the correct set of Windows software.
Since you are reading this document, you already have a web browser. But do you have the correct Windows Software.
Windows 95/98 | If you have Windows 95/98 VP-ASP requires that you have the free Microsoft product called Personal Web Server (PWS). If you do not have PWS installed, then you must install it. It comes either free on your Windows CDROM or it can be downloaded from the web. Please see http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_pws.htm |
Windows NT/2K/XP Professional | VP-ASP requires that you have Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). This is available on the NT or XP CDROM. |
Windows ME/XP Home | Unfortunately Microsoft has not made available any software that can run ASP on these operating systems. To evaluate VP-ASP you will need to use VP-ASP on your web hosting company. |
- Unzip the files to a folder on your hard drive
- Tell IIS or PWS that this is a virtual directory. See Windows 95/98/NT PWS or Windows XP Set-up for the proper way to do this if you have never done it before
VP-ASP is installed
The next step is to run VP-ASP
1. Start your browser
2. Type http://127.0.0.1/shopping or http://localhost/shopping
3. You should now see the default VP-ASP home page
4. Click on the shop button and you should see the demo shop categories.
The most common problems are these:
1. Instead of seeing the shop categories, a program tries to load.
This is caused by an incorrect setting of your virtual directory. Please see
http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_helpme.htm
2. On Windows NT/XP an error occurs trying to write to the supplied VP-ASP Access database.
This is because the correct permissions have not been set that allow people from a browser to update the database. Use our diagnostic tool diag_dbtest.asp to test the database and then see our help file at http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_databasesetup.htm
3. The Database cannot be opened, You get errors such as
ADODB.Recordset error '800a0e7d' The application requested an operation on an object with a reference to a closed or invalid Connection object.
This means that VP-ASP cannot open the database. First run the diagnostic tool diag_dbtest.asp Then check our FAQ at http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_setup.htm
- Create a folder on your web host. Copy the files from your PC to your web hosting company using your normal FTP tools. such as CuteFTP or WSFTP.
- Copy the supplied Access database, shopping500.mdb, to a special directory your web host supplies. It cannot be in the same folder as the rest of VP-ASP. Most web hosting companies supply a special database directory since normal directories on a web host are read only.
- You must edit shop$config.asp to tell VP-ASP where the database is located. See www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_databasesetup.htm
- To use VP-ASP and see demo shop, use your browser and type www.yoursite.com/shopping. The shopping is the folder you copied the VP-ASP files into on your web host.
- Now run our supplied diagnostic tool, diag_dbtest.asp. Make sure the database can be read and written.
The SQL server scripts are not included in free version. They will be sent on request for potential buyers of VP-ASP.
SQL Server is a complex Microsoft software product. From the VP-ASP point of view it is very simple to use. The steps in using SQL Server are:
Create the SQL Server database. This can be done using SQL Server's Query analyzer or it may have been created for you by your web hosting company
Add the VP-ASP Tables