I followed the instructions with minor variations for creating a "Payment (Donation)" page; with unsuccessful results.

Issue: The page presents, accepts my edits, and presents the cart with no entries, only a message telling me my cart is empty.


Link: http://hardwoodsound.com/payment.php

Reference: https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/help/donations.asp

To recap...
1) I copied, not saved, products.php to payment.php [brown](not donations.php)[/brown]
I also wen the the WP Pages and added a Payments page with the permalink of .../payment.php

2) I then changed the code in payment.php from
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incproducts.php"?> to <?php$explicitid="payments"; ?>
and added
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incspecials.php" ?>

3) I opened vsadmin/inc/languagefile_en.php and change the following two entries
$xxDonat="Direct Payment";
$xxMakDon= "Make A Direct Payment";

4) I then opened payment.php and added the following
<?php
$prodid="payments";
?>
before
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incspecials.php" ?>

5) Finally, in vsadmin/includes.php I added
//Donation or Payment
$GLOBALS['donationid']="payments";
[brown](not $donationid="payments";)[/brown]

[blue]Please advise as to how I can remediate this issue, thanks.
[/blue]

Warm Regards,
Ronald Capodagli

It works if you have the www. in front of the link, should be the same as the cart link which does include the www.

http://www.hardwoodsound.com/payment.php

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Thanks for the feedback...

I am afraid that in WordPress, leveraging the "www" is much easier said than done...

WordPress will not always put the "www" in front of the URL; and most often will not.

And I am not at all sure that the "www" can be managed to ensure that a "www" is always there in each and every WordPress URL

Nor am I sure how to ensure that my Payments (donation) page and/or the cart page leverages the "www"

I am happy that I was able to follow the instructions on how to bring the Payment (donation) page into a WordPress instance

Now I could really use some help here in getting this issue of "www" remediated.



Warm Regards,
Ronald Capodagli

You can add this to your htaccess file

# Force the "www."
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

but while you're there you might as well put all your site on https

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-force-ssl/

make sure that your store url and https url in the store control panel admin settings are set with the www too.

Andy



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With respect to the htaccess file, I have 3 instances I can find, along with their respective source code:

[blue]/public_html/.htaccess
[/blue]# php -- BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
# Set the “ea-php70” package as the default “PHP” programming language.
<IfModule mime_module>
AddType application/x-httpd-ea-php70 .php .php7 .phtml
</IfModule>
# php -- END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
# BEGIN WordPress
# END WordPress

[blue]/public_html/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/.htaccess
[/blue]Options -Indexes
Deny from all
<FilesMatch '\.(jpg|png|gif|mp3|ogg)$'>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</FilesMatch>

[blue]/public_html/wp-content/plugins/akismet/.htaccess
[/blue]# Only allow direct access to specific Web-available files.
# Apache 2.2
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
</IfModule>
# Apache 2.4
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all denied
</IfModule>
# Akismet CSS and JS
<FilesMatch "^(form\.js|akismet\.js|akismet\.css)$">
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Allow from all
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all granted
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
# Akismet images
<FilesMatch "^logo-full-2x\.png$">
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Allow from all
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
Require all granted
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

[red]So, with respect to the code you provided (below)...
[/red]
What exactly would I type in and where for my site www.hardwoodsound.com ?

[brown]Do I replace "example" with "hardwoodsound" (without the quotes) in each respective statement?
Which of the 3 instances (above) would I update?
Where in the respective instance should the updates (below) be made?[/brown]

[purple]# Force the "www."
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L][/purple]


Warm Regards,
Ronald Capodagli

You want to edit the file at /public_html/.htaccess, the others are of no interest. Just add the new code at the end, so it looks like this:

The additional code basically just says if you're not on www.hardwoodsound.com then make it so.

Peter

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Well, is as much as I appreciate the help, my web site not so... :-(

After making the edits to the htaccess file, when I try to access my site, I receive the following message

[red]This page isn’t working
www.hardwoodsound.com redirected you too many times.
Try clearing your cookies.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS[/red]

I cleared EVERYTHING and the results are the same.

I then tried accessing www.hardwoodsound.com from 3 browsers, Chrome, Edge and IE, all ended up with the same results

I did have to remove the code to regain access to my site.

I am confident that with your help, this issue can be remediated - so, if I may ask but one more question...

Assuming that we get the "www" thing worked out, and I can redirect my Order Entry page to the Payments (donations) page...

[blue]How would I go about passing the 3 pieces of information (amount, name, message) from the host page into my payments (donations) page?
[/blue]
Again, I really do appreciate the help and hold high value to your recommendations for resolve.

Warm Regards,
Ronald Capodagli

Probably you have the Store URL on the main settings page in ECT and/or the addresses in the Wordpress General Settings area set to the non-www version. So you wind up in an infinite redirect loop. Check those and make them the same as the redirect rule, with the www.

You need to pick one version (www or non-www, can be either) and stick with it everywhere; your store code, links, printed materials, stuff you do with Google, Super Bowl commercials, whatever, make them all the same.

Peter

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Great reply and it resolved my issue - thanks.

I went to my WP settings and added www to my URLs

I went to my ECT settings and made sure it was www

All is good now... :-)

Warm Regards,
Ronald Capodagli

You're welcome

Peter

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https://servelink.com

Take a look at our image upload/resize tool for the ASP cart
https://servelink.com/clients/cart?gid=7