By default, X-Cart 4.4.x does not provide some additional fields that would be very useful to fight fraud. This payment method is great for a secured x-cart store to collect payment information to be used offline instead of being used with a real time payment gateway. However, offline payment methods require a little extra homework from the store owners to ensure that an account it not being used fraudulently. The default fields for the ACH/Electronic Check payment method are “account owner”, “bank account number”, and “bank routing number.” Once an order is placed, this information is encrypted as part of the order details and is Continue reading Adding additional field to X-cart 4.4.x ACH/electronic check payment method
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Optimizing Website Performance On Apache
There are three easy things that you can do to optimize a website’s load time on an Apache server. The first thing is to compress the web page output that is sent to the client with mod_deflate. The second thing is to enable or allow browser caching on the client’s end. The third is to enable http keep-alive requests. The following will be a brief example of how to enable these features. Continue reading Optimizing Website Performance On Apache