osCommerse Shop?

CrAg · 02-28-2004, 09:53 PM

Hello guys!

I have a question to ya'll. I know a lot of you use or familiar with osCommerse shop. My friend wants to open up her online shop and she asked me to help her. I installed osCommerse scripts. The shop is working, everything is fine.
The question is: Should I work on anything? I mean is it secure so nobody will break it to Administration panel and things like that.

Thank you Very much.
CrAg.

fishfreek · 02-29-2004, 06:46 AM

The admin panel is not secure at all. Give yourself a scare by typing in the URL of the store and append the admin folder and watch what happens. You can take basic measures by password protecting that folder so the average joe does not just venture in the admin panel from a haphazard guess.

Emancipator · 02-29-2004, 09:49 AM

I agree with Fishfreek. If they are looking for FREE oscommerce is the way to go., otherwise you have piles of much better options.

CrAg · 03-01-2004, 02:55 PM

Thanks guys!
I really apreciate your help!

ANYBODY KNOWS ANYTHING ELSE?

Emancipator · 03-01-2004, 02:57 PM

if its free the only way to go is oscommerce. Put up some money and then you REALLY open up your options.

Best of luck with it.

CrAg · 03-01-2004, 03:31 PM

Well!
If I was going to open up an Internet Shop, sure thing we would program it ourselves or just bought something better.

The thing is that I'm creating an Internet Shop for my neighbor. She is 80 years old lady. As you understand nobody in this age wants to spend that kind of money for better thing. I'm helping her; I do not even charge her for working on this web site and things like that. She just pays me for helping her. I did not even tell her to pay me and at firs I did not want to take money from her but she asked me to.

She is kind and nice lady. So I'm trying to something good for her and I just want to find out how I can secure her Internet shop so nobody is going to hack it. It would be a problem if I was always checking if everything all right in the Admin panel, but the thing is that I’m moving and I do not have time to do this. So while I have not moved I just want to set up everything for her so she is not going to have problems with it.

Thanks.

Emancipator · 03-01-2004, 04:15 PM

KUDOs for that. I always respect a person that isnt all about the buck. I do alot of free gestures for people and they 99% of the time really do appreciate it.

CrAg · 03-01-2004, 04:44 PM

Well yeah!
I mean I'm not here to worry about money. I always help people when I can. I thought I can help the lady and I'm doing it.

robert adams · 03-01-2004, 08:03 PM

I wouldn't worry that much about it, hackers are not looking for some little old lady's store to hack.

password protect the folder and go for it.
robert

CrAg · 03-01-2004, 08:11 PM

Yeah, I protected it with the password.
But hackers do not know she's 80. There are a lot of starters who do not know anything about hacking. They just use the simplest software and hack whatever is available for hacking. Once they do that they just go to message boards and showing off for hacking something which is not that important.

sadcox66 · 03-08-2004, 08:31 AM

All loaded versions of osCommerce have the admin section protected.
You can double the protection by adding a password in a .htaccess file
with password.

fishfreek · 03-08-2004, 08:43 AM

The oscomerce I installed a few weeks ago had zero admin protection. Any visitor could just add admin/ to the end of the url and be taken to the admin section.

CrAg · 03-11-2004, 12:07 AM

Mine was already secured. So I'm just going to leave it like it is for now but later I want to secure it little more (if I can

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sadcox66 · 04-19-2004, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishfreek

The oscomerce I installed a few weeks ago had zero admin protection. Any visitor could just add admin/ to the end of the url and be taken to the admin section.

Now that you know what the default osCommerce cart does try the loaded version demo in my signature you will see tonnes of stuff you want and there is more coming.