Welcome to the Freeola Internet customer support pages. This guide is designed to help with the correct configuration for Actinic Shopping cart on Freeola's VIP servers. For more internet help topics please visit our main Support Page.
Important:
By default the VIP Hosting service will not have PERL enabled. If you require PERL to operate this software, please contact our support department so that we may enable it for you. Visit the Support page for contact details.
Once you have designed the e-commerce section of your website using the Actinic builder software, you will need to publish it to our web servers in order for your shop to be visible on-line.
First log in to your MyFreeola account and retrieve the following information from the VIP settings menu:
FTP Server Address
FTP Server User Name
FTP Server Password
Within the Actinic Catalog Software, select the Web Menu option and then select Network Setup.
You will then see an image similar to the one at the bottom of this page.
Fill in the following parameters in the Network Setup Dialogue
Catalog URL: should be set to http://www.yourdomainname.com/acatalog.
CGI-BIN URL: should be set to http://www.yourdomainname.com/cgi-bin
Codebase: should be set to ./
Path From CGI-BIN to Online Store Folder: should be set to ../htdocs/acatalog
Web Site URL: should be set to http://www.yourdomainname.com
Path to the Perl Shell: should be set to /usr/bin/perl
Use Relative CGI-BIN URLs in Catalog Pages should be left unticked
Server Host: should be set to FTP Server Address from your MyFreeola VIP settings page
Username: should be set to FTP User Name from your MyFreeola VIP settings page
Password: should be set to VIP Server Password from your MyFreeola VIP settings page
Path to CGI-BIN: should be set to cgi-bin
Path from CGI-BIN to Online Store Folder as Viewed by the FTP Server: should be set to ../htdocs/acatalog
Ignore Passive Transfer Errors: should be ticked
Use Enhanced FTP: should be ticked
SMTP Server: should be set to localhost
Once you have set these settings please click the Test button and you should get a message saying that the network settings test was successful.
Click OK, then OK again on the Network Setup dialog
Select the Web menu again and then select Publish to Web
Your Actinic Catalog should then be uploaded to our web servers.





