1. Change your password
This should be the first thing that you do when working with VP-ASP.

To change your password:

• Go to the Occasional Tasks in your shopping cart administration
• Select the Admin Users in the Users section
• Select Admin and click on edit
• Enter a new userid and password
• Click continue

Note: You should complete this process for the VPASP user as well, or delete it.

2. Add a second password
As the default passwords are stored in a database, it is important to add a second password that is not stored in the same place. By adding a second password you can ensure that your admin page has maximum security.

• Download your admin login page (shopadmin.asp) via your FTP client, or locate it on your local machine
• Open the shopadmin.asp file
• Locate the const SecondPassword="" line
• Enter your second password between the inverted commas
  i.e. the code should now read:
  const SecondPassword="yoursecondpassword"
• Save the file
• Users viewing files on remote server only: FTP the new file onto your remote server, overwriting the original file.

3. Rename your Admin Page
For increased security it is recommended that the admin log in page is made a stand alone page with no reference to it in the database. Follow these easy steps to rename your Admin page:

• Download your admin login page ( shopadmin.asp ) via your FTP client, or locate it on your local machine
• Rename the file by right-clicking on the file name and selecting Rename
• Open the file with Notepad or an HTML editor
• Locate the following line (approx. line 5):
  • const xadminpage = “shopadmin.asp”
• Replace shopadmin.asp with the file name (from step 2 above). It should now read:
  • const xadminpage = “youradminloginpage.asp”
• Users viewing files on remote server only: FTP the new file onto your remote server and delete the old shopadmin.asp file.
• To enter your administration pages, you will now need to browse to your new administration page (i.e. http://localhost/shopping/youradminloginpage.asp)

4. Setting your xadminmenucheck - Version 6.50 and earlier only
As an enhanced security feature, setting your Xadminmenucheck = yes will ensure that each menu used is checked against the list of menus available to that administrative userid.

To change this setting:

• Go to the Set-Up Menu in your shopping cart administration
• Select the Administration Security menu item
• Locate the Xadminmenucheck setting and select “Yes” from the drop down menu
• Click “Save Changes”

5. Setting your xrestrictadmintables
This security setting will ensure that tables are limited to those administrators given permission to access them.

To change this setting:

• Go to the Set-Up Menu in your shopping cart administration
• Select the Administration Security menu item
• Locate the xrestrictadmintables setting and select “Yes” from the drop down menu
• Click “Save Changes”

6. Setting your xshowadmin
This feature allows the shopadmin.asp to be displayed if an error occurs – by setting this to ‘No' a general error message page will be displayed. This is an enhanced security feature against hackers and the recommended setting is ‘No'.

To change this setting:

• Go to the Set-Up Menu in your shopping cart administration
• Select the Administration Security menu item
• Locate the xshowadmin setting and select “No” from the drop down menu
• Click “Save Changes”

7. Changing the database name
Note: this is for Access users ONLY!
It is recommended that you rename your database by giving it a name that is unique and hard to guess.

Changing your database name:

• Rename your database (default name in VP-ASP 6.0 is shopping600 )
• Open the shop$config.asp file
• Locate the const xDatabase= line and insert your new database name between the inverted commas. i.e. the code should now read:
  • const xDatabase="YourName" 'Database name
• Click “Save Changes”

7. Removing all diagnostic files

Delete all files starting with the word “convert”. These files include the following:

Please note: if you have an earlier version, these files will have that version number in their name instead of "600" – e.g. create500demo.txt

Remote Users: Please ensure that you have deleted all these files on both your local PC, and your remote server.

8. Removing all files starting with “diag”
Delete all files starting with “diag”. These files include the following:

Remote Users: Please ensure that you have deleted all these files on both your local PC, and your remote server.

9. Encrypting Credit Cards
It is important to encrypt any credit card information that you are taking through your site – and to ensure that the encryption code used is different to that in the Payments section of the configuration. This is important so that if a hacker does somehow manage to download your database, it will do them no good as the information it contains will be encrypted.

To set your encryption:

• Download the shop$config.asp file via your FTP client, or locate it on your local machine
• Open the shop$config.asp file using notepad or an HTML editor
• Locate const xencryptkey = "agabAhjBcG" line and insert your encryption key i.e. the code should now read:
  • const xencryptkey = "yourencryptionkey"
• Save the file
• Users viewing files on remote server only: FTP the new file onto your remote server, overwriting the original file.

10. Credit Card Storage Settings
VP-ASP recommends that you do not store credit card numbers.

If you take credit card numbers into your system rather than using a Payment Gateway, we recommend that you delete the credit card number as soon as the order has been processed. This can either be done manually, or the shopa_displayorders.asp page can be set to delete credit card numbers automatically when the order is marked as processed.

In order to automatically delete credit card numbers as soon as an order is processed, simply:

• Download the shopa_displayorders.asp file via your FTP client, or locate it on your local machine
• Open the shopa_displayorders.asp page
• Locate the following code (around line 341 depending on the version your are running) :
  • Sub MarkProcessed (Item)
  • • 'Response.write "item=" & item
  • • sql= "update orders set oprocessed = 1 where orderid =" & item
  • • dbc.Execute sql
  • • If getconfig("xmailprocessed")="Yes" then
  • • • MailProcessedOrder dbc, item
  • • end if
  • End sub
• The bold code above should be removed and replaced with :
  • 'sql= "update orders set oprocessed = 1 where orderid =" & item
  • sql= "update orders set oprocessed = 1, ocardno=0000 where orderid =" & item
• Save the file
• Users viewing files on remote server only: FTP the new file onto your remote server, overwriting the original file.

All orders should now be printed and processed immediately. Credit card numbers will be deleted as soon as an order is processed in the admin.

11. Securing your Database
Note: this is for Access users ONLY!

If your database is not in a secure location, with the correct setting, hackers may be able to download through the web browser. To secure your database folder you will need to update your IIS settings, and the NTFS properties on your database folder.

To test if your settings are correct, attempt to browse to your database (e.g. http://localhost/shopping/database). You should receive a “ The Page cannot be displayed ” error. If you do not receive this error and your database starts to download, please follow the steps below.

If a third party is hosting your website, you will need check that you have been provided with a database directory and that the correct permissions have been set. If you are uncertain, please contact your web host and ensure that the following have been set:

• Read and write permissions on the database folder in your shopping sub-directory need to be set (the READ/WRITE must be set in the NTFS on the database folder, and not the file itself)
• Read access must be removed from IIS on the folder that the database will be stored in

Setting IIS permissions on your database folder

• Click on Start , then on Control Panel , then double-click on Administrative Tools
• Double-click on Internet Information Services
• Browse to your database folder by expanding the menus on the left
• Right click on your database folder and select Properties
• Uncheck the Read box
• Click Apply
• Click OK

Setting up database permissions

• Open up your VP-ASP directory ( C:/InetPub/wwwroot/shopping/database for local hosts)
• Right-click on your database folder, and then click on Properties
• Click on the Security tab in the dialog box window
• Select Everyone or Users and then click on the Advanced button
• Select Everyone or Users in the Permission Entries
• Check “Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects”
• Uncheck “Inherit from parent the permission entries…” then click Copy in the dialog window (if applicable)
• Click on Apply
• A security window will pop-up, select Yes
• Select the Everyone or Users Group, and ensure that Allow box is only checked for Read and Write
• Click Apply
• Click OK