1. System Configuration
Admin Email - the email of the Web Store administrator
Use SEO-Friendly URL - allows your store URLs to be searched by internet search engines. Please see side note for more info.
SEO-Friendly URLs
If you are not hosted with Xsilva, to use SEO-friendly URLs you must rename your web host's htaccess to .htaccess (with the period). Then, alter RewriteBase in the .htacess file at approximately line 10:
# Some hostings require RewriteBase to be uncommented
# Example:
# Your store url is http://www.yourcompany.com/store/xlsws
# So "RewriteBase" should be:
# RewriteBase /store/xlsws
if it is http://www.yourcompany.com
RewriteBase /
if it is http://www.yourcompany.com/store
RewriteBase /store
Database Backup Folder - sets the path for the store’s backup file. Xsilva recommends this path is outside of your webroot, and it must be readable/writeable by the www process. By default, the Web Store will back up the database into the db_backup folder under your Web Store root directory.
Debug Template Usage - enabling this displays the paths of the files used to generate the web page when looking at the source code
2. Email
Whether or not your Web Store is hosted with Xsilva, you must contact the host of your email server for your SMTP information required for email integration with the Web Store.
Order From - the “from” address in the email sent to the client to confirm purchase
BCC Address - the email address that will blindly receive a copy of the order confirmation
Enable HTML Email - enables the formatting of the order confirmation email to be HTML
Email Signature - the signature that appears at the bottom of every order confirmation email
SMTP Server - the host name of your SMTP server
SMTP Server Port - the email port of your SMTP server
SMTP Server Username - the username of your SMTP server account
SMTP Server Password - the password of your SMTP server account
3. Security
Enable SSL - redirects customers to secured pages for customer registration and checkout - requires that your web host have a valid SSL certificate installed and that access to port 443 is enabled. Xsilva recommends that this option be enabled.
Forward to Non-SSL When Not Required - if Enable SSL is turned on, this option will redirect customers to non-secured pages for product browsing and other general site viewing. This will increase the speed at which pages load for Web Store customers.
Authorized IPs For Web Store Admin - a list of IP addresses from which an administrator is able to access the back end of the Web Store. This feature is only possible if you have a static IP, regardless if you host with Xsilva or a third party.
Generate Sitemap - amalgamates all the pages and subsections of your Web Store into a single page of links and generates the sitemap.xml file. It is recommended that you create your own sitemap.xml file and set permission to 666 to be writeable by the www process.
Take Store Offline - when performed, this feature takes your store offline. The feature then becomes Take Store Online, which will take your store back online when performed.
Upgrade Web Store - this feature upgrades previous versions of Web Store to the newest version. However, any use of this feature should be preceded by contacting Xsilva Support for instructions, and should not be performed unless advised by Xsilva Support.
Optimize Database - performs general optimization to decrease the size of the database, including purging log files
Backup Database - performs a backup of the database to the location specified in the Configuration tab
Flush Category Tree - erases the Web Category tree; a fresh Category tree will be uploaded the next time LightSpeed updates the Web Store
Xsilva strongly recommends that you perform an "Optimize Database" on a regular basis, and particularly after the first upload. This step ensures that the duration of subsequent updates will be minimized.
Tools > Web Store > Admin Panel > System > Tasks > Optimize Database
The Systems Log tracks all the actions taken to administer the Web Store, assigning each action an ID number.
