Using on a Windows server

Hi Steve,

I know that there are users running Price Tapestry on Windows servers, but they are admittedly in the minority. I have made sure that there are no Linux specific elements in the distribution but as you've found out there are some gotchas involved running PHP on Windows.

If you would like to purchase the script, rest assured that I will work with you to resolve any problems that crop up very quickly, and ultimately of course refund your purchase if the script is not compatible with your server installation at all.

Cheers,
David.

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply, you've put my mind at rest.

Steve

Hi David,

I purchased the software and am trying to get it to work with litle success.

I've installed the software and uploaded a feed. However after I do a trial import the links on the home page (merchant, categories etc) just link to dead pages.

Also, how do I add a secondary category to the index fields. Most items have two categories (main category followed by a sub category.

Thanks

Steve

Hi Steve,

If the merchant / brand / categories links don't work this implies to me that you have set the following value in your config.php:

On a Windows server (which is not compatible with Apache's .htaccess rewrite mechanism) you will need to set this to false as follows:

The links should then work fine.

Please note that Price Tapestry does not support a category hierarchy. This is a concious decision, because very few product feeds contain decent category information and even where they do, it is often incorrect or verbose which would result in people being dissatisfied with the result.

However, what some users do is create multiple installations of Price Tapestry in sub-directories, with each installation being for a top level category (e.g. Electronics, Home & Garden etc.) and then they load each installation with feeds from relevant merchants. You can then create a top level "master" search form with a category drop down box that directs the query into the relevant sub-category installation. There are instructions for doing this in the following thread:

http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/205

I would not recommend trying to do this until you are comfortable with using the script on your Windows server as a single installation, but may be something you can implement once you have got everything up and running...

Hope this helps,
Cheers,
David.

Hi David,

Brilliant - beginning to work now.

Now I can start playing about with it.

Steve