When you purchase your domain name, the registry emails you within 24 hours and provides information on completing this process. The registry comfirms your status as a member of the sponsored adult entertainment community as well as your contact information.
Once the registry validates the membership, you must associate your membership ID with your domain name before it can resolve to the internet. A membership ID can be used for all of the .xxx domain names you register. You do not need a separate membership ID for each .xxx domain name.
NOTE: You are not required to complete the ICM Registry’s membership application process if you have a defensive registration to block a domain name from becoming a .xxx domain name. If you purchased your .xxx domain during the Sunrise B phase, you cannot manage your domain or enter a membership ID.
To Manage Your .xxx Membership ID
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- Next to Domains, click Launch.
- Select the .xxx domain name(s) you want to update.
- From the Contact menu, select .XXX Membership ID. The .XXX Membership ID window displays.
- Do one of the following:
- If you haven’t associated your Membership ID(s) with your account, enter a vaild .XXX Membership ID provided by the ICM registry.
- If you have associated your Membership ID(s) with your account, select the option you want to use.
- Click OK.
NOTE: Log in to the ICM Registry website as a member to recover your lost or forgotten membership ID.
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- Keep your competition from registering a similar domain name drawing customers to them instead of you
- Promote the different products and services you offer
- Drive more traffic to your website
- Enjoy more opportunities to market to — and be listed in — search engines
- Create distinct advertising strategies reaching different target markets
- Provide customers more ways to find you when searching the Internet
- Capture common misspellings of your domain name, instead of sending visitors to an error page
- Protect your brand and online identity
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NOTE: This article helps you with backing up your current site and database and creating a test site. For detailed instructions regarding additional upgrade steps, we recommend Drupal’s site and the upgrade.txt file included with the new version to which you’re upgrading.
To Back Up and Download Your Current Site and Database
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- From the Products section, click Web Hosting.
- Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
- In the Content section, select File Manager.
- Browse to the folder that contains your Drupal files.
- In the Page Size field, select 50.
- Click the checkmark to the left of the Filename column to select all the files.
- Click Archive from the Action bar. Name the file and follow any prompts.
- Click the checkbox in front of the archived file and click Download from the Action bar.
- Go to the Databases tab and select MySQL.
- Click the pencil button next to the database associated with your Drupal installation.
- From the Action bar, select Backup.
It will take up to 15 minutes to back up the database. You can use an FTP client to download it from the db_backups folder.
Creating a Test Site
This step is optional, however, Drupal recommends creating a test site to verify that your upgrade has not created any issues with your site.
Our Hosting Control Center makes this task easier for you. After you run update.php and your database structure is updated, and you have re-loaded any custom modules, you can proceed with copying your site to another folder on your hosting account to thoroughly test it.
To Back Up Your Database and Create a Database for Your Test Site
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- From the Products section, click Web Hosting.
- Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
- Go to the Databases tab and select MySQL.
- Click Create Database. Write down the user name and password you use and make sure to select 5.0 as the MySQL version.
- Click OK
- Click the pencil button next to the database associated with your Drupal installation.
- From the Action bar, select Backup. Make sure you do not overwrite the backup you created earlier. If necessary, download the existing backup before creating a new one. The existing backup contains the information from your previous installation and you may need it if you need to revert the installation.
- Wait while the new database is created and the existing Drupal database is backed up. It should not take longer than 30 minutes.
To Copy Your Site to a Subfolder in Your Hosting Account
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- From the Products section, click Web Hosting.
- Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
- In the Content section, select File Manager.
- Click Create New Directory. This is the directory you will copy your existing Drupal site files to.
- Browse to the folder that contains your Drupal files.
- In the Page Size field, select 50.
- Click the checkmark to the left of the Filename column to select all the files. If there are more than 50 files in this directory, perform the operation multiple times.
- From the Action bar, click Copy.
- From the directory tree, click the directory you just created.
- Click OK.
To Copy Your Existing Drupal Database to the New Database and Modify the settings.php File
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- From the Products section, click Web Hosting.
- Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
- Go to the Databases tab and select MySQL.
- Click the pencil button next to the new database you created.
- Copy the contents of the Host Name field. You will need this information when you modify the settings.php file to point to your backup database.
- Click Restore.
- Select your Drupal database backup and click Restore.
- Go to the Content tab and select File Manager.
- Go to your back up site folder and navigate to sites\default. The default folder contains settings.php.
- Click the checkbox in front of settings.php and click Permissions.
- Go to the Advanced Permissions tab and make sure Write is selected in the Owner permissions area. Click OK.
- Re-select the checkbox in front of settings.php and click Edit.
- Find the following line in the file:
“$db_url = ‘mysql://user:pass@server/databasename’;”
and replace with the user name and password you created for your backup database. Where it displays server, replace with the host name you copied when you were restoring your database. The user name is the same as the database name.
- Scroll down in the file and locate $base_url = ‘ ‘;”. Between the ‘ ‘, place your URL, including the subfolder you created. For example, ‘http://www.coolexample.com/mysubfolder’.
- Browse to your site and go to the subfolder you created and test your site.
If you are unable to produce any issues with your site, you can use the instructions provided by Drupal to return your upgraded site to online mode.
]]>This article is part two of our Quick Shopping Cart® Walkthrough series, designed to guide you through creating an online storefront using Quick Shopping Cart. Click here to go to the beginning.
Time to Complete: Five to 10 minutes per product.
Products are one of the most important parts of your online store. This guide walks you through adding and organizing your products using Quick Shopping Cart’s tools.
In this walkthrough, we are going to set up a shirt company. Substituting your own products for the shirts makes setting up your Catalog in Quick Shopping Cart easy.
Adding Products
Products make up the content of your shopping cart.
We’re going to start by adding a shirt. After we add the first, we can repeat the process for the rest of our stock.
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Shopping Cart.
- In the Quick Shopping Cart list, click Open next to the Quick Shopping Cart account you want to use.
- From the Manage menu, in the Catalog section, select Add Products.
- Define the product information (outlined below).
- Click OK.
Product Type
The Product Type defines how the product will be inventoried in Quick Shopping Cart.
- Standalone — Standalone Products are placed in the customer’s shopping cart as a single product. We’ll select this option for our shirts.
- Configurable Variations — Products that have a unique SKU for each option. For example, a red shirt might be R100 and a blue shirt might be B100.
- Bundle — When a customer adds the item to their shopping cart, products that are selected as part of the bundle will be added to the shopping cart at no additional cost. However, the additional products’ dimensions will still be used to calculate shipping.
- Downloadable — A Downloadable Product disables shipping charges and instead lets you set an expiration date and number of available downloads before being discontinued.
Part Number (SKU)
A SKU uniquely identifies a product for inventory and invoicing. It’s easiest to create a pattern here: 11111 for your first product, 11112 for your second, etc.
Inventoried
Quick Shopping Cart can manage your inventory and automatically remove sold out items unless you allow backorders.
- Allow Backorder — This option lets customers order out-of-stock products and displays as Back Ordered.
- Quantity In Stock — Your stock is reduced from this value when an item is purchased.
- Email Me When Stock Is — When your stock reaches the specified threshold, Quick Shopping Cart emails you.
Charge for Shipping
For any shipping options to work, you must charge for shipping. Charging for shipping allows you to integrate a product’s dimensions to dynamically calculate its shipping costs.
- Shipping Type — Select Package or Freight, and specify Weight, Length, Width, and Height measurements for an accurate real-time shipping fee quote. Freight requires that the product weighs more than 100lbs.
- Ships in Own Package — Shipping a product in its own package disables it from being grouped with other items, regardless of available box sizes when calculating shipping (Freight items automatically ship on their own).
- Can Ship as Media Mail — Products eligible for Media Mail are books, film, manuscripts, sound recordings, video tapes, and computer readable media (such as CDs, DVDs, and diskettes).
- Freight Options — If Freight is selected, select the Packaging type, Freight Class, and if the product is Hazmat.
- International Shipping — If International Shipping is enabled, you can specify which countries a product can ship to. For more information regarding international shipping, see Enabling International Shipping.
Title
A product’s title is its storefront display name.
We want to create a product for bright Hawaiian shirt, so we’ll title it “Wacky Hawaiian Shirt.”
Short Description
The short description gives brief information about a product.
Here we need a quick catch phrase: “A bright Hawaiian shirt to make every day sunny!”
Full Description
The full description gives detailed information about a product.
A customer that’s gone this far is looking for more detail about the shirt, so we’ll tell him that “Our high-quality 100% rayon Hawaiian shirts are styled after the latest fashions found on the Big Island!”
TIP: You can embed images and media in both Short Description and Long Description. If you are working in the HTML Editor, see Embedding Images and Media Using the HTML Editor in Quick Shopping Cart for information.
Manufacturer
Selecting the manufacturer allows your customers to find their favorite brands when they search your store. If the manufacturer is not yet listed, click Add Manufacturer, type in the name, and click Save.
We get our stock from two companies, SmartShirtCo and LovelyShirts. We’ll add them both here. Next we’ll select the manufacturer of the shirt we’re adding, LovelyShirts. When customers perform an Advanced Search, they will see the manufacturers as search criteria.
Taxable
For more information about charging tax, see Configuring Tax Options in Quick Shopping Cart.
Featured
Featured items display in a prominent window on your store’s sidebar.
Discontinued
Discontinuing a product removes it from displaying on your site but the product’s information is still available to you in Quick Shopping Cart’s Catalog.
Add to Google Product Search
Quick Shopping Cart can tie in to Google Product Search, which is an extension of Google that searches for products. Listing products in Google Product Search is toggled here. For more information, see Working with Google Product Search in Quick Shopping Cart.
Condition
The product’s condition will display on the Google Product Search.
Price
- Your Cost — Your cost to purchase or manufacturer the product.
- List Price — The fee you want to charge for the product.
Category
Categories help organize products — there’s more information about them here.
NOTE: You can add categories here but they’re such an important part of your Quick Shopping Cart, this guide gives categories their own section.
Images
Images show your customers what they’re buying. For more information about managing images, see Using the Media Gallery in Quick Shopping Cart.
Search Engine Optimization
If you want your products to be visible on search engines, this area is important to complete.
- Meta Tag Title — The meta tag title should include keywords that will help people locate your store.
- Meta Tag Description — Description meta tags should be a sentence describing or summarizing the product or category.
- Mega Tag Keywords — Keyword meta tags should list the words or phrases that describe the product or category of products your are selling. Separate keywords using a comma.
Attributes
Attributes provide concise descriptions of your products, like the material and style of shirts. Customers are able to search for products based on attributes.
You can add attributes directly from this menu by clicking Add Attribute. In the menu that opens, type the name of the attribute, select its sort order, select whether or not it will be searchable, and click Save.
Our shirt company has rayon, cotton, button up, and T-shirts, so we create Material and Style attributes. After we apply the attribute to the product, we’ll define the attribute. Our “Wacky Hawaiian Shirt’s” Material is “Rayon” and its Style is “Button Up.”
Options
Options offer variations of the same product, like the size and color of shirts. You can specify a surcharge for an option. For example, an extra extra large shirt costs the customer $1 in addition to the list price.
Options can be added directly from this menu by clicking Add Option. From the menu that opens, name the option, select Drop Down to define a list of choices or select Text Field for a user-entry text box and click Submit. You then select the option from the drop-down menu and click Apply. From the menu below, select the choices that apply to the product and make any desired price adjustments. To learn more about options, see Working with Options in Quick Shopping Cart.
All of our shirts come in sizes small to extra-large. Our T-shirts come in a lot of different colors. Quick Shopping Cart has both of those options available already, so we don’t need any custom options.
Associations
Associations suggest other products to customers based on whether they are selected as Related Products or Best Values. Or you can change the association’s label from the Product Association Preferences in the Store Preferences menu under the Set Up section.
Adding Categories
After your products are in Quick Shopping Cart, you can organize them in to Categories to help your customers navigate.
Our shirt store doesn’t sell just Hawaiian shirts. We sell graphic T-shirts as well. Categories allow us to organize the store so customers can easily navigate among different types and styles of products.
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Shopping Cart.
- In the Quick Shopping Cart list, click Open next to the Quick Shopping Cart account you want to use.
- From the Manage menu, in the Catalog section, select Add Category.
- Define Category Information (outlined below).
- Click OK.
Name
This is the display name for the Category on the home page.
Since we already have a Hawaiian shirt, we’ll make a “Hawaiian Shirt” Category.
Parent Category
Child categories are nested beneath their parent category.
We can place the “Fun Hawaiian Shirts” and “Business Casual Hawaiian Shirts” in the “Hawaiian Shirts” Category.
Short Description
Since a category only houses products and other categories, this is where you give information about it.
To describe all of our Hawaiian shirts, we can say, “Breezy shirts great for relaxing around the pool or office.”
TIP: Images and media can be embedded in Short Description. If you are working in the HTML Editor, see Embedding Images and Media Using the HTML Editor in Quick Shopping Cart for information.
Sort Order
Organizing the displayed structure of categories on the storefront is done using sort order.
Active
Deactivating a category removes it from your storefront but leaves it accessible in your catalog.
Images
Images show your customers what they’re buying. For more information about managing images, see Using the Media Gallery in Quick Shopping Cart.
Products in Category
By adding products in to a category, you can organize the structure of their display on the storefront.
More Options
Most of your Catalog in Quick Shopping Cart is managed in products and categories but here is a description of other selections.
Default Product Images sets placeholder images for both products and categories. For more information, see Working with Default Images in Quick Shopping Cart.
Import/Export Products works with Microsoft Excel® to easily import and export your products.
Inventory/Low Inventory helps you manage any items Quick Shopping Cart is inventorying.
For more information about the eBay Auction Manager, see Working With eBay Auction Manager.
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]]>To Update Your MySQL Database’s Description
1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. From the Products section, click Web Hosting.
3. Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.
4. In the Databases section of the Hosting Control Center, click the MySQL icon.
5. Click the pencil icon next to the database you would like to change the description for to open its edit features.
6. Click the Description icon in the menu bar.
7. In the Update Description window, enter the new description you would like to use in the Description field. Click OK The description for the selected database will be changed.
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If you have a CGI/Perl or Java enabled account the system path to our Perl interpreter is:
CGI binaries must end in .cgi or .pl and can be run from any folder on your Web site if you are running Hosting Configuration 2.0. Otherwise, they must reside in the /cgi directory. For more information, see How can I find what hosting configuration my account is running?. You cannot use /cgi-bin/ with our hosting system.
]]>Your host, the computer where your Web site files are stored, assigns an Internet Protocol (IP) address to your domain name that represents the online location where you’ve stored your files. In this way, anyone can find your Web site on the Internet by typing in your domain name.
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