User Guide

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7. Click the Submit button to save the product information.

AShop will now protect the directory and prepare it for use as a membership product.

Note: Since AShop uses .htaccess password protection, this feature is only available on Linux/Unix

servers.

Customers May Recover Forgotten Passwords

If a customer, who has purchased a subscription product, cannot remember their password, they can

retrieve it. If they call sendsubscrpass.php from their browser they will be prompted for the directory that

they have subscription access to and their email address. An email will be sent to your customer with

their password.

example: http://www.yourdomain.com/ashop/sendsubscrpass.php

Deactivating Expired Subscriptions (without Password Robot)

1. The checksubscr.php script deactivates expired subscriptions. You can run this script manually

through a browser or setup a Cron job in the server control panel to run this script on a regular

basis. Your hosting company must provide a method to create Cron jobs or you must have root

access to the server to set up a Cron job. More Info...

2. Change the $ashoppath at the top of the checksubscr.php script to the correct path to AShop V if

the script is placed outside of the AShop root, for instance outside the document root to avoid

making it publicly accessible.

3. Change permissions to chmod 755.

The subscription product will be labeled "Instant Access" in the store catalog product listing.

Links to the purchased subscription directories, user names, and passwords will be included in the e-