How to set up?

[Jade]

I know this is going to be a really strange set up to want...but....

What I want to do is leave my currently up and running e-commerce site as it is (which uses another web e-commerce cart), but I want to process any internet orders received from that site via Actinic interface, so this will mean inputting any orders I receive manually. (along of course with any telephone taken orders)

My problem is this....How do I set Actinic up to send emails (orders despatched etc), when I do not want to upload the full website at this point.

Long term I will upload the full site and overwrite my existing site, but this will not be for some time, so I need a temporary fix.

Any advice would be gratefully received!

Many thanks

[Mike Hughes]

If you upload actinic to a test directory then you should be able to send out all the emails without any problems.

Mike

[Jade]

Hi olderscot

Do you mean run actinic in 'Test Mode' which will create test directories for everything ?

[fergusw]

Hi olderscot

Do you mean run actinic in 'Test Mode' which will create test directories for everything ?

Yes, although Actinic simply uploads to
[yourdomainname.com]/acatalog/test/acatalog/

Actinic uses a Perl script online for sending emails (e.g. mf000001.pl) and therefore having Actinic uploaded to the test area will ensure there is a suitable mail Perl script online for it to use.

[Jade]

Thanks olderscot and fergusw

I presume I will of course have to upload the site? But I don't want google indexing anything ???

I have a robots.txt file to disallow some other pages on the site, but I know this is not foolproof - any other suggestions to stop google indexing the pages in the test directory ?

OR can I just delete the .html product pages from the directory once it has uploaded and leave the pearl scripts in the cgi folder (to run the email side of things) - would this create any problems ???

Many thanks for any advice

[Mike Hughes]

Deleting the html pages and leaving the cgi-bin files should be fine.

Mike