Technical Support: Simple Secure ORDER/REGISTRATION Form

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What it does

The purpose of the web hosting secure order/registration form is to allow you to capture important information from customers. You can use the following page in your web site. When the user accesses the page their browser will go into SSL mode (Secure Sockets Layer). All data that is sent to and from the web browser is encrypted.

 

 

When the user clicks the submit button the contents of the form are stored in an SQL database and can be viewed by you using your WEB SITE HOSTING Account. 

The user is then given a "Receipt Number" and an email is sent to you notifying you of the order. Since email is not even remotely secure the details of the order are not sent with the email message.

 

Accessing your form
A bank form has been created in your SSL directory, but before you use it you will need change a few fields.
  • Your order forms must be placed in the SSL directory on your web site.
  • Go to domain details in Mission Control to set "SSL Status" to 'Install SSL' (this will take one working day).
  • The path to access your secure orders using SSL is shown underneath the "SSL Status" in Domain Details in your WEB SITE HOSTING Account.
    https://siteserver/vsxxxx_secure/orderform.htm.  
    Where siteserver is the server your site is on, vsxxxx is the vs number of your site, and orderform.htm is the html order file in your ssl directory.

 

If you use a text based HTML editor
  • Locate the line that says <input type="hidden" name="vs" value="demo">
  • Replace demo with your web host logon name, ie vs10033 
  • Don't include your password, it isn't needed here
  • If you would like a link back to your page to be displayed after the client places an order, locate the line that says:
  • <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.yourdomain.com.au"> and replace the reference to www.yourdomain.com.au with your own domain name

 

If you use FrontPage
  • Open order.htm into the FrontPage editor
  • Right mouse click on the Form and select Form Properties
  • Highlight the vs variable and click modify
  • Replace demo with your web host logon name, ie  vs10033 

 

Changing the form
 You can delete any field in the form but you cannot - 
  1. Add new fields
  2. Change the existing variable names used for the fields.
    That's why we call this the Simple Secure Order/Registration Form.
To view orders
In your WEB SITE HOSTING Account you can set -
  1. The start number for the receipts to be issued
  2. A prefix which appears before the receipt number
  3. The URL that the user is taken to after the receipt page
  4. Email address to which your notifying email is sent 

 

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