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Installation on Windows

Introduction
VP-ASP Shopping cart is one of the most comprehensive e-commerce solutions available anywhere and for any price. It allows you to build an Internet shop that can sell 1 product or tens of thousands of products. VP-ASP is ready to use and comes with extensive customer facilities for browsing, searching and ordering products. The back end administration allows the merchant to alter and manipulate products, run reports, bulk mail, track and display orders.

Installation Summary

Installation should only take 5 minutes.
When you receive VP-ASP it will be in the form of a zip file. You will need a utility such as WinZip to uncompress the one file into 200+ files. All are files stored in a single folder. This document includes details for Windows both on your local PC and on Windows web hosting company.

VP-ASP for Windows databases are Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server. If you are using MYSQL you will have purchased or installed the UNIX/MYSQL version of VP-ASP. Only the deluxe version of VP-ASP for Windows includes all three database support options.

The Detailed Design Guides are packed with information. The design guides can be downloaded from the web.

Developer's guide	http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpasp500developer.zip
Merchant's Guide	http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog.vpasp500merchant.zip
Option Package Guide	http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpasp500optiondesign.zip
Add-ons Guide	http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpasp500addonsdesign.zip
Technical specifications	http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpasptechnical.htm
Customer Sites	http://www.vpasp.com/demos/vpaspsites
Forum	http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/vpaspforum
Additional Help	http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/helpdesk

Running VP-ASP on your own local Personal Computer

First determine what Windows operating system you have. Then determine if you have the appropriate Microsoft prerequisites.

Windows 95/98	If you have Windows 95/98 VP-ASP requires that you have the free Microsoft product called Personal Web Server (PWS). If you do not have PWS installed, then you must install it. It comes either free on your Windows CDROM or it can be downloaded from the web. Please see http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_pws.htm
Windows NT/2K/XP Professional	VP-ASP requires that you have Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). This is available on the NT or XP CD-ROM.
Windows ME/XP Home	Unfortunately Microsoft has not made available any software that can run ASP on these operating systems. To evaluate VP-ASP you will need to use VP-ASP on your web hosting company.

Steps to install VP-ASP on your local PC

Unzip the files to a folder on your hard drive
Tell IIS or PWS that this is a virtual directory. See Windows 95/98/NT PWS or Windows XP set-up for the proper way to do this if you have never done it before

VP-ASP is installed

The next step is to run VP-ASP
1. Start your browser
2. Type http://127.0.0.1/shopping or http://localhost/shopping
The 127.0.0.1 is Microsoft's magic number meaning my own personal PC. Shopping is the virtual directory that you created. If you have installed VP-ASP on a web server that has an actual domain name the 127.0.0.1 will be replaced by your normal domain name. If you are using Windows 95/98 and are unsure how to create a virtual directory go to www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_pws
For Windows XP Profession go to www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_xpsetup.htm

You should now see the default VP-ASP home page
Click on the shop button and you should see the demo shop categories.

What can go wrong?

The most common problems are these:
1. Instead of seeing the shop categories, a program tries to load.
This is caused by an incorrect setting of your virtual directory. Please see
http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_helpme.htm
2. On Windows NT/XP an error occurs trying to write to the supplied VP-ASP Access database.
This is because the correct permissions have not been set that allow people from a browser to update the database. Use our diagnostic tool diag_dbtest.asp to test the database and then see our help file at http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_databasesetup.htm
3. VP-ASP does not store any cookies on the customers PC but it does require the browser to have cookies enabled. If cookies are not enabled in the browser no products are added to the shopping cart and the cart empty message appears.
4. The Database cannot be opened, You get errors such as
ADODB.Recordset error '800a0e7d' The application requested an operation on an object with a reference to a closed or invalid Connection object.

This means that VP-ASP cannot open the database. First run the diagnostic tool diag_dbtest.asp Then check our FAQ at http://www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_setup.htm

In 99% of cases this is caused by incorrect NT/2000 configuration

If running on your web host, make sure they have the necessary pre-requisites. See www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_hosting.htm

Create a folder on your web host. Copy the files from your PC to your web hosting company using your normal FTP tools. such as CuteFTP or WSFTP.
Copy the supplied Access database, shopping500.mdb, to a special directory your web host supplies. It cannot be in the same folder as the rest of VP-ASP. Most web hosting companies supply a special database directory since normal directories on a web host are read only.
You must edit shop$config.asp to tell VP-ASP where the database is located. See www.vpasp.com/virtprog/info/faq_databasesetup.htm
To use VP-ASP and see demo shop, use your browser and type www.yoursite.com/shopping. The shopping is the folder you copied the VP-ASP files into on your web host.
Now run our supplied diagnostic tool, diag_dbtest.asp. Make sure the database can be read and written.

SQL Server Set-up

SQL Server is a complex Microsoft software product. From the VP-ASP point of view it is very simple to use. The steps in using SQL Server are:

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