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OSCommerce Digital Download Settings

OSCommerce is one of the most effective and well known ecommerce scripts available. Whether your selling physical or downloadable products. However, Webmaster's and developers are familiar the problems involved in getting it up and running. Sure there are numerous forums and knowledge base help files out there but how do you know which one is right.

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OSCommerce Digital Download Settings

OSCommerce is one of the most effective and well known ecommerce scripts available. Whether your selling physical or downloadable products. However, Webmaster's and developers are familiar the problems involved in getting it up and running. Sure there are numerous forums and knowledge base help files out there but how do you know which one is right.

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OSCOMMERCE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD SETTINGS

For OSCommerce to allow for digital downloads, you must make the following changes to
both your Store Admin, the files that you are supplying for download and cPanel on your
server.

Changes to files supplied for download

All downloadable files must be placed in the ‘download’ directory on the server.

The files must have a .zip extension


The file names must not have any spaces

cPanel Changes

Ensure the following directories on your server have permissions set to the following;

your online store/download (set permission to 777)


your online store/pub (set permission to 755)

Please Note; these settings can be changed in the cPanel File Manager

OSCommerce Admin Page

Make the following changes to your store Configuration/Download Settings

- Set Enable Downloads to ‘True’


- Set Download by redirect to ‘True’
- Set Expiry Delay to ‘7’ i.e. 7 Days from date of purchase
- Set Maximum number of Downloads to ‘3’

Make the following changes to your store Configuration/GZip Settings

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- Set the Enable GZip Compression to ‘True’
- Set the Compression Level to ‘5’

Make the following changes to your store Modules/Payment/Credit/Debit Card (via


PayPal)

- Set Enable Paypal IPN Module to ‘True’


- Set Gateway Server to ‘Live’
- Set Email Address to ‘[email protected]’ (remember to setup Paypal email
address and redirect as well)
- Set Sort order of display to ‘0’
- Set Transaction Currency to ‘Select Currency’
- Set Payment Zone to ‘—none—‘
- Set Preparing Order Status to ‘Preparing (Paypal IPN)’
- Set Paypal Acknowledgement Order Status to ‘Processing’
- Set Paypal Completed Status to ‘Delivered’
- Set Transaction type to ‘Aggregate’
- Set Enable Encrypted Web Payments to ‘False’

The remaining settings can be left blank

Adding a downloadable to your OSCommerce Store Admin

1. Create a products page as you would normally to sell a product.

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2. Go to Admin/Catalog/Product Attributes page. Under ‘Product Options’ called
‘Download’ or something your customer will recognise.
3. In the same Products Attributes page, create an ‘Option Value’ of ‘Yes, or Only or
Whatever’.
4. Still within the Products Attributes page at the bottom of the page, you will find a
drop-down menu of each of the products you’ve added. Find the product you wish to
offer for download and select it.
5. Under the ‘Option Name’ choose ‘Download’ or whatever you used in step 2.
6. Under ‘Option Value’ choose ‘Yes’ or whatever you used in step 5.
7. Set your price for the product (normally left blank as price is set when you create the
product in /catalog).
8. Skip the ‘Prefix’ section.
9. Type in the exact name of the download file as it was save in the /catalog/download
folder. Ensure there are no spaces in the file name and that it ends with a .zip file
extension.
10. Set the number of days the purchase download will be available to your customer.
11. Set the maximum of download tries you wish to grant the customer.
12. Click the ‘Insert’ button.

PLEASE NOTE;

If you downloads don’t work, consider checking the following file


catalog/includes/config.php

Ensure the followings lines have a ‘/’ at the end of the line of code

Define(‘DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD’,DIR_FS_CATALOG .’download/’);
Define(‘DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC’,DIR_FS_CATALOG .’pub/’);

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