World: r3wp

Layout: Use what you like.

Item presentation: Dead simple integration into existing pages. No 
frills, simple to change.
Shopping Cart: Provides simple API that can be called via CGI
Payment Forwarding: Plug-Ins where to route the payment process

The last two are pretty much what Oscommerce does now.

Some other packaged coupled with oscommerce do the others you listed. 
 There is no reason that REBOL can't do the same.

From the dark ages long gone; 

did not Ralph Roberts a shopping system in Rebol for his book Rebol 
for Dummies ?

I don't know as I never read it.

Only book I had on REBOL was the Official Guide Book and they used 
my review for rebolpress.com back in the day.

Nor did i read it. But I think I remember something like that.

Anyone know how to view a website you are are self hosting. I know 
you can view it using localhost but I want to use the url. I remember 
reading somewhere that it was possible but I can not find it now. 
Something about the DNS...

In case its not clear...I'm running the hhtp server on the same machine 
that i want ot view the site with.

hhtp =http

this is a guess,  http://domainName/virtualFolderPath

do you have a domain name assigned to your computer? if it is then 
you can access it as anybody else ... I am not sure I understand 
... if you have a virtual host set and you want to test if it works 
(and are on windos) you can add www.yourdomain.com  to hosts file 
in winnt/system32/drivers

If you are on windows, check c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts 
file

I'm using dyndns as I have a dynamic ip. 

If i type my url into the browser from a macine outside my local 
network I get my web page. If I do it from within my local network 
(even on a different machine) I can't not get through to the page 
"Cannot display webpage" error.

It's not just http. I'm accessing a mysql server too with the same 
problem resulting. 

I know I can use "localhost but I would need to change my code everytime 
I'm using it locally.

I was going to use a linux server...I' may switch back to windows 
though..

Oldes, That worked on my windows box. Thanks alot!

Anyone know how that works on a linux box?

amacleod - isn't there /etc/hosts file? Maybe you could put it there? 
Generally, I use DNS based technique, pointing particular name to 
the particular IP. Even more interesting situation is, when you want 
to redirect public server IP to the internal IP on local network 
:-)

Yep

Any recommendations for a domain registration service?

I use the ones where I have the hosting, don't use godaddy , I sometimes 
go check domains at register.com

sitelutions.com, configure everything via web interface, cheap. since 
many years never had a problem.

Thanks Janko & TomBon

joker.com

I've used directnic for a long time. No problems that I can recall, 
but my needs have been very simple.

Thanks Robert & Gregg.

I went with sitelutions.com. So far so good. (My needs are probably 
much simpler than yours, Gregg).

I have small tag editing tool for one portal, but something has changed. 
Few of subsites now are full of iaccute strings. I wonder when and 
how it happened, if during hand editing of some html files, but is 
there any easy way of how to decode it back to Czech codepage? I 
just checked, and all files have correct headers specifying charset=windows-1250. 
Or could it be some internal header problem? (BOM, Unicode related?)

btw - browser displays (escapes) it correctly. But our REBOL tool 
just parses it, and puts it into fields, so I need to decode it back 
...

Has anybody wriitten a "flush" function that sends data back to the 
browser before the CGI script has finished running?

that would be a good trick

shouldn't you just spawn another process to do the work and then 
return?

Pekr, it looks you are not alone: http://www.google.cz/search?hl=cs&q=iacute&spell=1

You can use my script http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/htmlentities_latest.r
to convert it into UTF8

probe HTMLentities/decode "Základní informace "

(but now when I see it here, it's not enough as the á char is not 
converted to utf8)

Graham: I could spawn another process but have had problems with 
both using 'call to launch a second Rebol process on Mac OS X; any 
console output from the spawned Rebol session is sent to the browser 
in addition to the output it should receive from the cgi process.

It would be much cleaner for me to be able to flush the output back 
to the browser and then do my housekeeping.

And if you called a shell script that ran the rebol process?

I tried to find such a "flush" mechanism for REBOL.org (running Apache 
under a generic GNU/Linux OS).

It would have been very useful (still would be).......But I never 
found anything that worked.

Sadly, even if you call a shell script that runs the rebol process 
:-(

Not tested, but might work for flushing CGI data : close system/ports/output

Thanks for the tip Doc; I'll try it and report back.

I'm now not sure if flushing the html to the borwser is necessry. 
I tried with a simple test. Firefox displayed the page immediately 
but the connection to the server was kept open. Safari didn't display 
the page unitl the connection to the server was closed.


I dug a lttle deeper into Apache Docs and it seems that Apache doesn't 
buffer simple html output.


It seems that the "problem" is getting the browser to display the 
html before the connection to the server is closed.

I've had this same problem before implementing custom-purpose web 
apps. http being connection based, i think most clients expect the 
connection to be closed.

the client reply port anyways.

Then, you can try with HTTP chunked encoding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding), 
it's the classic way to stream HTML to the browser. Having the page 
displayed while downloading chunks is browser specific. It's implemented 
in Cheyenne's HTTPd, but reading that wikipedia page makes me wonder 
if it still works with the new automatic HTTP compression introduced 
in 0.9.19 (haven't done regression tests for that case).

Thanks, Doc. I look into that.

is IE7 svg capable?

This says no -- but 3party support is possible:
http://wiki.svg.org/Internet_Explorer

thanks for the link... so no svg on my new site... darn.