Membership Software Windows IIS

[Crafty Sara]

Hi there,

I have been using a basic membership access software on my site - however it only uses PayPal. I have been contacted by people in South Africa and Brazil, who say they would like to join my site, buy cannot do so through PayPal. So I decided to use WorldPay.

I think it looks more proffessional to use a payment system other than PayPal, and indeed my aim is to bring joy to crafters worldwide, so I need a payment system that people worldwide can use! However, now I need to find a membership software that will incorporate Worldpay, but is useable on the Windows IIS server.

I understand it needs to be ASP orientated to work on the servers my host has.

Do you have any advice or recommendations please?

Thank you.

[Eric80]

if you can afford it, better have developer build your own system.

or, you can seperate your front end and the backend. frontend still uses windows iis, backend uses linux for payment processing. if so, there are many choices.

good luck

[ServWise]

Hi there,

I have been using a basic membership access software on my site - however it only uses PayPal. I have been contacted by people in South Africa and Brazil, who say they would like to join my site, buy cannot do so through PayPal. So I decided to use WorldPay.

I think it looks more proffessional to use a payment system other than PayPal, and indeed my aim is to bring joy to crafters worldwide, so I need a payment system that people worldwide can use! However, now I need to find a membership software that will incorporate Worldpay, but is useable on the Windows IIS server.

I understand it needs to be ASP orientated to work on the servers my host has.

Do you have any advice or recommendations please?

Thank you.

Most good Windows (IIS) hosting services will allow you to use much more than just ASP. Typically you will be able to at least use ASP.NET and PHP as well as classic ASP, you may also be able to us perl, python and some other programming languages.

Likely however you will find something that works for you within PHP.

Check your hosts features and see, if you don't see php then you might want to find hosting that does have it.

[Crafty Sara]

Thank you for your replies. PHP is OK, but not Unix. When I was looking at aMember when I first started, I was told it wouldn't work because;

PHP version 4.1.0 or newer; OK
MySQL version 3.23 or newer; We can do this but on a separate server.
Apache WebServer (it usually only installed on Unix hostings, and almost never on Windows); No !
Ability to run one ionCube Loader or Zend Optimizer. No. They are Unix applications.

Our web servers are Windows IIS... NOT Apache, I’m afraid.

Although I have learnt a lot over the past few years, the above is a different language to me I'm afraid! I would like to stay with my host though, as he has been very good to me.

[ServWise]

Thank you for your replies. PHP is OK, but not Unix. When I was looking at aMember when I first started, I was told it wouldn't work because;

PHP version 4.1.0 or newer; OK
MySQL version 3.23 or newer; We can do this but on a separate server.
Apache WebServer (it usually only installed on Unix hostings, and almost never on Windows); No !
Ability to run one ionCube Loader or Zend Optimizer. No. They are Unix applications.

Our web servers are Windows IIS... NOT Apache, I’m afraid.

Although I have learnt a lot over the past few years, the above is a different language to me I'm afraid! I would like to stay with my host though, as he has been very good to me.

What a lot of php applications mean then they say by "Apache WebServer" requirement is that it needs to support Mod_Rewrite (Or equivalent). On windows using IIS any good host will replicate this functionality by the use of ISAPI_rewrite or IIS_Rewrite which does exactly the same thing.

As for ionCube Loader or Zend Optimizer being linux only that is complete rubbish as we run them here, it is available on most platforms. See http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php

[mcol]

If all you're doing is taking a membership payment, then it's a simple form post to worldpay giving the amount and description, and worldpay then lets you display an HTML thank you page where you can have a link back to your site.

A simple job for a developer in either asp or php - a cart would be overkill.