Help Please

[SANDRA1985]

hi I was wondering if anyone can tell me if the attached e-commerce is correct for my assignment.



Thankyou

[SANDRA1985]

I am new and if I am in the wrong forum thread please let me know.

Thankyou

[SANDRA1985]

Does anyone reply to these threads?

[herkalees]

a) I myself am not experienced enough with e-commerce systems to answer your question, but I'm sure someone is.

b) Give it time. Paid support is usually instant, free support is "whenever it happens"

[benbacardi]

come on m8, u gave people 20 minutes to answer that! many of these threads don't get answered for a few days when people with the necessary experience are away or some other reason

[Legacy_Staff]

Impatience can put people off as well.

[SANDRA1985]

Sorry iv never been on here before or any forums so i did not know how long it takes for threads to get answered.

[Legacy_Staff]

Okies no problem.
Basically, the people who frequent them are just like you.
They come in and out as they wish and offer their assistance if they see something they know a little about.
They're not paid.
They're not here, or even online, all the time.
When someone looks in the section, if they recognise the title of your thread, they'll offer any advice they can.

Ermm... just noticed the title of your thread.
Maybe be a bit more specific, so it will attract the right replies?

[SANDRA1985]

Hey thanks for your advice

[sypher]

So your trying to do this ecommerce site yourself?

Basically just have the payment page, process page behind an SSL or payment gateway and your fine.

You would also need to take care in how you are passing amounts between pages.

[SANDRA1985]

Hey sypher thanks im not exactly creating it I just need to design a e-commerce system, with a firewall, credit server, mail server and it needs to be secure. Do I need to put in a CGI and a Proxy server somewhere in the design? what do you think?

[sypher]

It depends if your going to be handling payments yourself or using a Merchant Account with a Gateway.

[SANDRA1985]

Im not sure what you mean, because it does not specifically say in the assignment. It just says to describe and design an architectural model of a web based e-commerce system for a small local business, and that the requirements are to have; A Firewall, Email Server, Credit Card Server. Application Server, Oracle Database and a Secure Intranet. So what do you suggest?

Sandra

[sypher]

They are deffinitely not required for a small business ecommerce site :P

mySQL instead of Oracle cos its free.
Credit Card/Secure server is dealt with by the Payment gateway company (examples: secure trading, SECPay etc.)
Merchant account (your local bank)

This is how it would work:

You have your ecommerce site on the webhost. You put the generic info pages (example your name address etc.) on your webhost.

The credit card form would be on the Payment Gateway secure server (they give you access to upload to their server when getting an account with them) They deal with the credit card info, none of it is stored on your database to rule out hacking and to stop employees taking advantage of the info.

The success information is then sent back to your website and your database updated.

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Now if your doing the payments yourself then instead of using a payment gateway, you buy an SSL for your web host and put the credit card pages inside that directory.
When the user inputs there credit details its up to you to deal with the payment, unlike the gateway which does it auto for you. The credit card number would also be seperated (part of it on the databse, part emailed etc basically to make it as hard as possible for an outside source to get them)

If fraud occurs you are completely liable if using an SSL.

[SANDRA1985]

Thanks for the info sypher. Could you tell me where on the design I should put the gateway then? Please

SANDRA

[sypher]

The gateway will attach to the order page. So the form method will be the payment gateway (they give you a guide and all the setup info when you sign up with them).

Its pretty straight forward