{"id":35,"date":"2017-01-07T14:03:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T14:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2017-01-07T14:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T14:03:03","slug":"e-commerce-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/e-commerce-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"E-commerce Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bouque<\/a>
Incredible floral arrangement from the ‘weeds’ in my garden. Love.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Start at the beginning<\/h1>\n

This isn’t just a gardening blog. \u00a0 Well maybe someday it will be just about gardening. But today I will share a bit about my journey into understanding the internet and E-commerce.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is what I know today regarding E-commerce\u00a0<\/strong>:<\/em> open safari, or Firefox, or chrome, type ‘<\/span>google.com<\/a><\/span>‘, type what you want to buy, click link.\u00a0 When I am feeling sophisticated I skip to the third page of the search results to try and get something beyond the google promoted.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is what I need to know<\/strong><\/em>: PHP, SQL, domain, hosting, sub domain, open source, did I mention php?, backlinks, https, hex, encryption, JPEG, pixel, template, coding, shopping cart, open source. As anyone who knows something about these things can see – I don’t even know what I don’t know!<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what I do know- and luckily it fits in a paragraph. The ‘host’ is the computer somewhere owned by BlueHost. They sorted out my domain (web address) when I signed up.\u00a0 \u00a0Then I installed open cart, thanks Steve Chou, from “My Wife Quit Her Job.com”<\/a>. \u00a0I also installed WordPress so I can blog. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now,\u00a0I have two E-commerce areas, a store (shopping cart from OpenCart) \u00a0on the primary web address, okragardensupply.com and a blog (WordPress) which i put on a sub-domain, okragardensupply.com\/blog.<\/p>\n

The complication came because I need three log in names and passwords. One for OpenCart, one for WordPress, and one for BlueHost. \u00a0 Seems straight forward enough, but I tell you, it was a bit of a frustration to sort through. \u00a0I don’t know how I logged in and edited the OpenCart the first few days but when I tried to log in yesterday I had *NO IDEA* what my user name or password were. \u00a0Um, I was stuck. \u00a0My BlueHost login had a Russian-hacker-proof password that contained\u00a0symbols that I didn’t even know were on my keyboard. It didn’t work to log into my opencart page, SHOCKER! \u00a0My equally impenetrable WordPress password didn’t work either. \u00a0Those were the only two login ID’s and passwords I had. \u00a0OpenCart.com had never heard of me. \u00a0It seemed my own website hadn’t even heard of me.<\/p>\n

Here come the water works! \u00a0(that means crying)<\/p>\n

But, I composed myself and kept going, I think that you can pretty much find anything on the web. \u00a0Two minutes of searching and i found, the link below to “how to reset your opencart password”. \u00a0I followed the instructions even though I had to click on something with PHP in the title. \u00a0I must also say that the link below didn’t match exactly what I encountered. \u00a0Probably a combination of the description below being a little old and also because there is something to do with one letter becoming approximately 4 letters for the computer to understand the letter. \u00a0I think it has something to do with code\/encryption\/MD5 and a word with “hex” in it. \u00a0But long story long, I\u00a0reset my OpenCart password logged in, and now I am only a few clicks away from selling electronics! \u00a0Just joking, I will get my products finalized soon (See goals below) and then I can swap out gadgets with something real.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.betterhostreview.com\/reset-opencart-admin-password.html#recover-opencart-password-email<\/a><\/p>\n

WAIT!!!! UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It didn’t work! \u00a0What?!?! \u00a0Why – Apparently the opencart password needs to 8 characters or fewer. \u00a0Once i tried that, I am running again. \u00a0Plus now I can get to my cpanel, find PHPadmin, navigate the file tree, find the users file, update the password, set to MD5 (Whatever that is), watch my password update to, is it, Hexidecimal?, anyway, a lot more characters, and boom. \u00a0Log into to opencart no problem.<\/p>\n

I am learning, so can you!<\/p>\n

Today’s goals: Draft last two label images, drill lid holes.<\/p>\n

~Lisa<\/p>\n

This post is famous in the future!<\/h6>\n

Just Keep Planting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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