David, I am happy to help out the project. Let me first say that the comment I made on lack of documentation should have been qualified to say "relative to the OsCommerce project", because that is the other open source solution which I considered. So my apologies. And it's probably not a fair comparison; OsCommerce has been around since 2000 I think.
But of course OFBiz is so much more than just an eCommerce store, which is why I want to use it. I actually started by looking at what books are available [I generally prefer books, because all the info is in one place]. I went to ofbiz.org, and I found the Apache OFBiz Development: The Beginner's Tutorial .<http://www.packtpub.com/apache-ofbiz-development-beginners-tutorial/book> ", but that is for developers [I may still end up going through that one]. I also saw Ruth's two books, both the catalog book, may also buy the other one. But that is it. That is the grand sum total of books on OFBiz. Then I looked at the "Apache OFBiz Getting Started " on ofbiz.org. In there, I could see several items that I would find useful: End-User Documentation, Technical Training Videos, Configuration Documents, specifically the Apache OFBiz Business Setup Guide (for users), etc. [but the link to the technical training videos is broken, and there isn't even a FAQ - it came back empty]. Before all that, I just wanted to see my basic web site, with my domain name, the name of the business and the logo on it, because it was so easy to get the demo store up and running, and customize the theme and company name. However getting rid of ports and the other stuff from the domain name, would have been hard without people's help on this mailing list. Is that documented anywhere? Now if I am going the wrong way about reading the documentation and not looking in the right places, please let me know. But in general I would say that if OFBiz is to be successful, there needs to be more business-owner oriented documentation. And as I go along with this process, I will take notes, and be happy to pass them on to you in the end, with suggestions what would have worked for me. Regards, Goran On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:45 PM, David E Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Goran, > > Your comments are interesting. Based on them I was wondering if you could > help out the project by answering a couple of questions: > > 1. which documents did you look at as you got started? > 2. how did you go about finding documentation? > > -David > > > > On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Goran Janevski wrote: > > > Ruth, > > > > That worked. > > > > Thanks very much, > > Goran > > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Goran: > >> You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file > for > >> the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the > >> mount-point entry to be mount-point="/". > >> > >> Hope that helps. > >> Ruth > >> > >> Goran Janevski wrote: > >> > >>> Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do > some > >>> kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com. > >>> > >>> When I figure it out, I will report back. > >>> > >>> Best Regards, > >>> Goran > >>> > >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Just trying to get started on OfBiz. First impression: not much > >>>> documentation to go on. > >>>> > >>>> I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but: > >>>> > >>>> 1) I can't get to it via a domain name. I can get to it on the > intranet, > >>>> via the intranet IP address: http://<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http:// > %3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce> > >>>> (also > >>>> > >>>> using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>). I can get to it externally > via > >>>> my > >>>> router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http:// > >>>> %3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>. > >>>> > >>>> But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com. > >>>> > >>>> I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this. I opened up TCP > ports > >>>> 80, 8080, and the https port on my router. > >>>> > >>>> Can anyone help with this, please? > >>>> > >>>> 2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4. I > >>>> downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change > the > >>>> logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!). > Why > >>>> would this be removed? So I proceeded to overwrite the ofbizLogo.gif > >>>> with > >>>> one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it > is > >>>> not > >>>> showing properly. Is there some resolution requirements on the logo > or > >>>> any > >>>> other image displayed on the web page? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Goran > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >
