Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no!

Now, when they click the link to add to the cart, it first checks the form for validation errors, then assuming they're all done and dusted, then it whips you off to Paypal. I want to do two other things at this point though.

Firstly, I want to send an email to them at the same time as they add to the basket, so they have a provisional registration. The paypal button action takes you to paypal, not a page where I can generate a message using CFMail. So, how can I get the button action to do this?

Secondly, some people will pay for more than one person, so having added their details and themselves to the cart, when they return to that page to enter more people. It'd be good if I could find a way to process the adding to the cart through to paypal, send and email, then clear the form ready for the next entry.

Any help appreciated!

I got fed up with this so I wrote a batch file to run at start-up which automatically maps the server to drive y: using the net use command. Trouble is, every so often the drive does stay connected and so I get system error 85 which says that the batch file is trying to map to a drive already in use.

Can you put an if/then type statement (or something equivalent) in a batch file that says that if (server) is not connected to drive y: then map it, otherwise do nothing?

Alernatively, you can use IF constructs in batch files, but I don't know if you can use it to check whether a drive exists or not; other than forcing an error and checking for the error, but it's probably not worth the effort, in this instance, just call:

net use /delete

before you map it. It might fail, but it doesn't really matter; it just ensures that it has been disconnected. You'd probably want to do this anyway, because it's possible the drive might have been (for whatever reason) mapped to somewhere other than where you want it.

I found an old IDE drive and booted fine from that, reinstalled Windows XP and patched it. Suddenly it could see the old SATA drive again via Windows.

What's happening?

/sbin/service httpd configtest
Syntax OK
/sbin/service httpd start
Starting httpd: [FAILED]

/usr/sbin/apachectl start

For which you'll need to be root.

Which seemed to work fine. I don't know how you're trying to start it, and I don't know much about Apache, but the above worked.

[::]:80
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:8443
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:8443
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

It looks as though it's trying to bind to 8443 but failing, because another process is bound to that port.

i bought it as a curiosity but it's taken over my life :(

I love the Opera browser!

Speed tests you may find useful.

Another thing to try is turning off caching, if you've got a fast connection but less RAM and processing power.

i had a bash at shiira but it felt a bit LOL japan especially as one of the inbuilt links is to a page called something like HAPPY FUN KERNEL DEVELOPMENT TEAM LAUGH TIME

i liked the opera bittorrent thing esp as i was trying to download v for vendetta downloading linux distros

VLC works OK on this intel mac, though I've noticed it doesn't always work if you double-click on a file. You have to launch it first, then open the file. There's no way around region-locking the drive, unless you never use DVD Player.

Torrents: Acquisition has torrent support, but Azureus is still the best. If you can run it on its own Mac, cos it's a beast.

x-post. That's weird. VLC is usually fine for playing any region's discs.

um, i dont have /etc/httpd/httpd.conf!

ls /etc/httpd
alias build conf conf.d logs modules run

Listen 80

rest is commented out. servername directive is all commented out

is the correct answer! i think

/etc/init.d/thttpd stop
Stopping thttpd: [ OK ]
[root@localhost html]# /sbin/service httpd start
Starting httpd: [ OK ]

/etc/rc?.d.

i have rc1.d through rc6.d ...which should i be adding to? i didnt look at the gui bit for that, would prefer to use command line, as is better to try learn more that way

Look for a line in that file that looks something like:

id:3:initdefault:

- which means that the default level is 3, so look in /etc/rc3.d/

The contents of those folders will all just be links back to files in /etc/init.d/

gives me a whole bunch of stuff, including...

S85thttpd

so, do i just rm this? and, if i add apache in, how, exactly would i do that?

ls -lR /etc/rc?.d is your friend. you will see what fp is talking about, the files will all be links to the main copy in /etc/init.d.

just rm the thttp links in the rc?.d directories that you don't want.

to add apache just create a new link to apache to replace the one you've just deleted:
ln -s /etc/init.d/(apachefilename) /etc/rc5.d/S85(apachefilename)

(the S85 means 'Start' and an ordering (because sometimes things have to be running before other things will run). there may be K versions of the files as well, these are shutdown (K for Kill) scripts)

this is why redhat provides a tool 8)