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anim007,
Yes…. I have updated WP eStore through your update-request a few times and there has been no issue with that process.
I was just curious if you might have any insight or have seen this in the past.
thank you
amin,
As per your comment above…. after deleting the “test customers” from the customer database, can the sales counts within the “Manage Products” menu (for products tested) be reset for all tested products via the “Reset All Sales Data” button in the “Almighty Reset Buttons” section ?
wzp,
As a follow up then…. having additional folders within your bucket in which your objects are placed into would seem only necessary for organization rather than a traditional approach of ‘burying’ a file in multiple layers of folders named in an arbitrary way ?
example: bucket name/klepqd/fewOihe/mopWio/woPiejs/your_file.zip
wzp,
If using the Amazon S3 addon feature to deliver secure downloads with expiring links…. do you recommend to also have an index.html file in each bucket and/or folder as mentioned above ?
I was wondering if doing that would add another layer of security along with the buckets being locked down to the public …. not sure if it would be irrelevant with using the S3 feature ?
thanks….
a follow up question…. as I am trying to decide to use your category feature or not…
If I have say 50-100 products…. and I am using this short code…
[wp_eStore_category_products_fancy id=1 style=4]
WIll the link for each individual item in the shopping cart return the user to the relative position on the category page where the product is displayed at OR with lets say with 100 products in the category does the user have to scroll to find the product assuming it isn’t in the top 3 or so in the category list ?
Thanks for the clarification…
I am just looking ahead as to how a seller would ‘counter’ such claims by a buyer when, after investigating the situation on the seller’s end, it is apparent that the buyer received the download.
I hear ya….
…But more so to the aspect of the plug in and the check box regarding agreeing to “Terms and Conditions”…. before a purchase is carried on to Paypal…. is that ‘check off’ logged somewhere ?????
Hi,
Just another eStore user here who needed to change the aspect of the thumbs also…. so maybe I can offer some feedback to help others with similar concerns.
In addition to changing the CSS pixel sizes for width and height as stated above in this thread…. I suspect it might be beneficial to convert your jpeg that is being used for the thumbnail image to the aspect you have defined in the CSS file…. that way, you shouldn’t get any distortion. Now, if you aren’t using the lightbox feature, you can create a thumb in any image editing program to the size you defined in the CSS…this might also help page load times.
Even if you are using the Lightbox feature,…. and wanted a large jpeg to fly out when clicked…. I would re-save the image in the aspect you are looking to have eStore size down to via CSS defined size for the thumb.
You shouldn’t get any distortion then and shouldn’t have to use the plugins’ compensation feature for the distortion…. which I believe is sizing up the jpeg internally to compensate for the aspect differences.
Those are just some initial observations on my part…. maybe some others can benefit from them.
wzp,
Thank you for your insight….. it is MUCH appreciated !
Correct me if I’m wrong on this observation regarding content on S3 and eStore…. I have found when hosting some of my site’s static content on S3 I have to set the permissions on the static items… ie: jpegs, flv files, gifs, pngs, mp4 files… to World “read”…. THAT isn’t required with content being approved by eStore for download after purchase… is it ????
It appears to me with eStore and the S3 integration that the approval is being sent via the expiring Key to serve the file for ‘download’ rather the need for the file to be ‘read’ as in browser calls for static content…. is this a correct observation ?
wzp,
Success ! …
…. I very much appreciate the explanation and support! ….
I did a live test product purchase of a 52 MB file and no issues what so ever. Looking ahead, I see the possibility of downloads in the 300-400 MB size at times…. with those, I figured a VPS host would be required with dedicated ram in the 700MB – 1Gig range in order to have eStore act as the middle man and keep the locations cloaked. The way I see it… a shared hosting plan would not be able to handle the download for sizes like such ????
Without S3, and given those size of DLs…. would a VPS be the next hosting plan to move to with dedicated resources (ram)… OR are there other potential issues with a VPS… ie: time outs during downloads when hosting the files eStore would be buffering with security ?
The existing CNAME uses the bucket name as part of the host path BUT when that was set up the ‘as3tp’ URI was not part of the record… just bucket name.s3.amazonaws.com
THAT must have been the problem ???
Also, my host has 64MB Ram for php and the zip file was in the low 30 MB size…. so IF it didn’t hand off to S3 and tried to buffer the download could it have been a ram issue seeing that WordPress has to take a good chunk of that ram allotment ?
wzp,
Thanks ! …. very clear and concise !… appreciate it.
I was having some issues initially with 0KB zip files being downloaded with nothing in them…. at that time I was using a pre-established CNAME for a bucket location for the file location. Subsequently, I set up a new bucket and followed the naming convention
as3tp://bucket.s3.amazonaws.com /folder/object and entered this into the file location for eStore.
I suspect I have to set up a new CNAME (if I wish to use one) with my host following the “as3tp://” path structure ??
Hi wzp,
Thank you for the feedback…
A follow up question regarding the pre-signed URL that expires after the default setting of 300 seconds…. does that override the time set for the buyer’s expiring link ? (in their confirmation email) … by default 24 hrs. ???
Would the buyer still be able to download the clip via their encrypted link multiple times in those 24 hrs ? ….
Also,… when using S3, am I still constrained by my hosting server’s ram amount for continuous download while the script is running ? …. from your comments above regarding eStore handing off control to S3 … it sounds like ram limitations on the hosting server are NOT an issue now with the S3 addon ???? ….. Am I understanding that correctly ?
thank you !
