osCommerce Wizard: the admin login works and the storefront

When the request is oscommerce wizard, we look at the live site first. The check we expect to matter is: the admin login works and the storefront does not.

What is usually wrong

• The admin login works and the storefront does not
• A payment or shipping contribution dies with a blank page after a PHP change
• The next contribution overwrote a file the last developer had edited
• Search goes empty after a product import

What we look at

osCommerce stores from that era are still taking orders. The failure is usually a contribution, a payment module, or a PHP version the cart was never updated for. The fix is in the files and the order tables, not a new slogan on the home page.

• Which files differ from a clean cart of the same vintage
• The PHP version the host is really running
• Whether the admin and the catalog are using the same database
• configure.php paths and the SSL flag

How the job starts

We would rather show you the setting or the template than invent a personality for the job. You can judge the work from that.

Nothing in the admin is magic. If a page promises a wizard, it is avoiding the list of files, settings, or products that are wrong.

Most of this work happens on the site you already have. You do not need to be in Toronto. The first step is still a look at the live page.

Call 905-426-1784. We look at the site and tell you what the work is before it starts. The service page for this is osCommerce help.