Newest KB Articles in Third party applications and tools

Enabling SSL on nopCommerce

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 03:36:46 GMT

Before enabling SSL in nopCommerce, first make sure to install an SSL certificate.

To enable SSL log into the store and then enter the Administration section of the site

Then the SSL setting can be found within Configuration > Stores > Edit

Make sure to update the "Store URL" with "https", check the "SSL enabled" box and then "Save".

If only SSL is enabled without also updating the Store URL, it will lead to redirection loops when visiting the store. In those cases, or if SSL is accidentally enabled without a certificate being installed, either setting can be updated directly through the database. If unfamiliar with updates directly to the database, a ticket can be opened with Support for assistance.

Application Installer

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:33:55 GMT

We provide access to "one-click" installation of many popular applications in Control Panel. The applications are part of Microsoft's Web Application Gallery and are fully tested for compatibility with our platform before they are made available to you.

The Application Installer is a convenient and powerful tool, but there are some important issues to keep in mind when using it. Most notably, when you install an application with this tool, it deletes everything in the target directory. This is done to insure that no old or conflicting files or assemblies are present alongside the new installation.

Another important issue is maintenance. Most popular applications are updated periodically, and those updates will have to be applied manually. The Application Installer is an installer only. It cannot update your applications.

Also, some applications may specify; Winhost Max or Ultimate or Power recommended. Those are applications that typically require more memory than is available in our other plans. They will not work properly unless they are installed in a Max or Ultimate or Power site.

Finally, while we have tested the available applications, we cannot provide support for the applications or the installation with Application Installer. The vendors maintain and package the applications for use in Application Installer, so the vendors should be contacted if the need for support arises.

To access the Application Installer, go to the Application Installer page of Control Panel.

Persits ASPEmail Information

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:25:16 GMT

Persists AspEmail component is an active server component for sending e-mail messages using an external SMTP server in an ASP or ASP.NET application (through a wrapper object).

AspEmail 5.4.0.6 supports multiple recipients, multiple file attachments, HTML format, embedded images and sounds, non-US ASCII character sets and secure mail.

More information:

User manual: http://www.aspemail.com/manual_01.html
Main Web site: http://www.aspemail.com

Persits ASPEmail sample code

	
			<html> 
		
			<head> 
		
			</head> 
		
			<body> 
		
			<% 
		
			Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject("Persits.MailSender") 
		
			Mailer.Host = "m##.internetmailserver.net" 
		
			Mailer.Username = "postmaster@mydomain.com" 
		
			Mailer.Password = "password" 
		
			Mailer.FromName   = "postmaster@mydomain.com" 
		
			Mailer.From= "postmaster@mydomain.com" 
		
			Mailer.AddAddress "postmaster@mydomain.com" 
		
			Mailer.Subject    = "This is a sample email sent from Persits ASPEMail" 
		
			Mailer.Body   = "Congratulation" & VbCrLf & "If you receive this is, your mail component works" 
		
			' catch errors 
		
			On Error Resume Next 
		
			Mailer.Send 
		
			If Err <> 0 Then ' error occurred 
		
			      Response.Write "Mail send failure. Error was " & Err.Description 
		
			else 
		
			     Response.Write "Mail sent..." 
		
			End If 
		
			%> 
		
			</body> 
		
			</html>

Do you support Persits ASPEmail Message Queuing feature?

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:23:10 GMT

We do not support message queuing for Persits AspEmail.

If you enable message queuing in your application, you will see this error message “No path specified and no default value found in the registry.”

More information:

User manual: http://www.aspemail.com/manual_01.html
Main web site: http://www.aspemail.com

Persits ASPJpeg Information

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:21:42 GMT

AspJpeg is a high-quality image thumbnail component that can resize images on-the-fly. Features include:

    * Supports JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and PNG formats. Output format is always JPEG.
    * Source images can be opened from disk, memory, or a recordset.
    * Resized images can be saved to disk, memory or an HTTP stream.
    * Supports three resizing algorithms: nearest-neighbor, bilinear, and bicubic.
    * Drawing and typing on top of an image. Support for TrueType and Type 1 fonts.
    * Automatic word wrapping, text alignment to the left, right, center and justified, rotation.
    * Picture-in-picture support.
    * Cropping, flipping, rotation, sharpening, grayscale conversion.
    * Compression rate of output images can be adjusted for optimal quality/file size ratio.
    * EXIF and IPTC metadata extraction from JPEG images.
    * CMYK-to-RGB conversion.
    * Sepia filter.
    * Read/write access to individual pixels of an image.
    * PNG alpha channel support.
    * GIF transparency support.
    * Brightness, contrast and saturation adjustment.

More information:

For more information: http://www.aspjpeg.com
For Live Demo: http://www.aspjpeg.com/livedemo.html

Sample code to resize an image with ASPJpeg 2.9.0.0.

You will need to customize the imagePath and image_name variables. See comments in code.

	
			<HTML> 
		
			<HEAD> 
		
			<TITLE>AspJpeg - Simple.asp</TITLE> 
		
			</HEAD> 
		
			<BODY> 
		
			<% 
		
			 ' Path and name to the location of the image file 
		
			 imagePath = "/images" 
		
			 image_name = "images.jpg" 
		
			 ' Name of the resized image file 
		
			 new_image_filename = "clock_small.jpg" 
		
			 ' Create instance of AspJpeg 
		
			 Set Jpeg = Server.CreateObject("Persits.Jpeg") 
		
			 ' Compute path to source image 
		
			 Path = Server.MapPath(imagePath & "/" & image_name) 
		
			 ' Open source image 
		
			 Jpeg.Open Path 
		
			 ' Decrease image size by 50% 
		
			 JpegJpeg.Width = Jpeg.OriginalWidth / 2 
		
			 JpegJpeg.Height = Jpeg.OriginalHeight / 2 
		
			 ' Apply sharpening if necessary 
		
			 Jpeg.Sharpen 1, 130 
		
			 ' create thumbnail and save it to disk 
		
			 Jpeg.Save Server.MapPath(imagePath & "/" & new_image_filename) 
		
			%> 
		
			Original Image:<BR> 
		
			<IMG SRC="<%=imagePath & "/" & image_name%>"><P> 
		
			Thumbnail (50% reduction):<BR> 
		
			<IMG SRC="<%=imagePath & "/" & new_image_filename%>"><P> 
		
			<% 
		
			 Response.Write "<HR>AspJpeg expires on " & Jpeg.Expires 
		
			%> 
		
			</BODY> 
		
			</HTML>

Persits ASPUpload Information and sample code

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:16:36 GMT

ASPUpload (version 3.1.0.2) enables an ASP application to capture, save and process files uploaded to the web server with a browser. The files are selected for uploading via an HTML POST form using the <INPUT TYPE=FILE> tag.

Some features include:

    * Ability to upload multiple files at once.
    * Access to text items on the form.
    * HTML-based progress bar.
    * Ability to save files in the database as blobs.
    * Support for MS Access OLE Object headers.
    * Ability to export files from the database.
    * Automatic generation of unique file names to prevent collisions with existing files.
    * Ability to put a limit on the size of files being uploaded.
    * Ability to preserve files' "Last Modified" timestamp.
    * Full ADO support when handling blobs.
    * Directory uploads
    * Image size and type extraction functionality.

More information:

User manual: http://www.aspupload.com/manual.html
For Live Demo: http://www.aspupload.com/livedemo.html

Persits ASPUpload sample code

Filename: aspupload1.asp
(referred to by Form Upload Page below)

	
			<HTML> 
		
			<BODY> 
		
			<% 
		
			Set Upload = Server.CreateObject("Persits.Upload") 
		
			count = upload.savevirtual ("/aspupload") 
		
			Response.Write Count & " file(s) uploaded" 
		
			%> 
		
			</BODY> 
		
			</HTML>

Form Upload Page:

	
			<html> 
		
			<head> 
		
			</head> 
		
			<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> 
		
			    <form action="aspupload1.asp" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> 
		
			        <input type="file" size="40" name="FILE1" /> 
		
			        <br /> 
		
			        <input type="submit" value="Upload!" /> 
		
			    </form> 
		
			</body> 
		
			</html>

How to generate a Google Sitemap

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:10:55 GMT

The "Sitemap Generator" provided by Google is a console script written in Python and is intended to be executed on the console to generate the sitemap.

Unfortunately, this is not supported on Winhost servers because Python is not installed, and unlike a linux host, it is not possible for you to execute shell commands on the server.

According to Google, it is possible to write your own program to generate the needed sitemap file. See Webmaster Tools › Help articles › Sitemaps.

Alternatively, there are a number of freely available services/tools to generate a Sitemap file. They include:

http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp
http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=10538