Shipping Module USPS Access

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Created: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:00
Last Updated: Friday, 09 October 2015 13:38
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From: registration@shippingapis.com [mailto:registration@shippingapis.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 6:39 PM
To: Michael Harmon
Subject: Important USPS Web Tool Registration Notice

***** Please DO NOT REPLY to this automated message.  Contact information is
provided below. *****

Thank you for registering for the U. S. Postal Service's Web Tools
Application Program Interfaces (APIs).  We are providing you with a User ID
that serves multiple purposes, as explained below.

Your Username is 344FRFRA7197
Your Password is 512KY59LE460

Your Web Tools User ID, shown above, is required to test and integrate USPS
Web Tools APIs.  With this ID, you may begin sending calls to the test
server.  Depending on the API, the address to the test server is either
http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll or
https://secure.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll.  Use this information
in combination with your User ID and your XML string to send a request to
the USPS servers.  For more details, refer to the programming guides
(located at http://www.usps.com/webtools) for the specific API you are
integrating.

A sample test request would look like:
"http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=[API_Name]&XML=[XML
_String_containing_User_ID]"

When you have completed your testing, email the USPS Internet Customer Care
Center (ICCC).  They will switch your profile to allow you access to the
production server and will provide you with the production URLs.

The ICCC is staffed from 7:00AM to 11:00PM Eastern Time.

            E-mail:  icustomercare@usps.com
            Telephone:        1-800-344-7779

The latest versions of the technical documentation, including the
Development Guide, are available from USPS.com at
http://www.usps.com/webtools.  This documentation provides the information
you will need to utilize our APIs.  It is available in both PDF and HTML
formats.  In order to open and view in PDF you must have Adobe Reader
installed on your system.  You may download this software, at no cost, from
http://www.adobe.com/reader.

                      IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING USER ID


The Web Tools User ID provided is for you and your company to use when
requesting data via the Internet from the U.S. Postal Service API servers.
This unique User ID cannot be shared with others outside your organization,
nor is it to be packaged and distributed or sold to other individuals,
businesses or e-commerce web site entities.  As per the Terms and Conditions
of Use Agreement you agreed to during the Web Tools registration process,
you are responsible to maintain the confidentiality of your User ID as
specified.  You may not package any APIs with your User ID for resale or
distribution to others.  The U.S. Postal Service does not prohibit the reuse
and/or distribution of the API documentation (User's Guide) with sample code
in order to generate awareness, encourage use or provide ease-of-use to
customers or affiliates.

Warning - If the U.S. Postal Service discovers use of the same User ID from
more than one web site, all users will be subject to loss of access to the
USPS production server and/or termination of the licenses granted under the
Terms and Conditions of Use.  For more information regarding the USPS Web
Tools User ID policy, or for questions regarding distribution of
documentation, send email to icustomercare@usps.com.

Thank you for helping the U.S. Postal Service provide new services to our
shipping customers.

Sincerely,

The Internet Shipping Solutions Team

USPS Internet Customer Care Center
icustomercare@usps.com
7:00AM - 11:00PM EST

 

-----Original Message-----
From: registration@shippingapis.com [mailto:registration@shippingapis.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:26 PM
To: 344FRFRA7197
Subject: USPS Shipping APIs Activation

Congratulations on completing your testing using the U.S. Postal
Service's Web Tools Application Program Interfaces (APIs).  Your
profile has been updated to allow you access to the Production Servers.

The URLs you will use for the Production Servers are:
        http://production.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPI.dll
        https://secure.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPI.dll

Profiles that are inactive for four years will be permanently deleted
without notice.

If you have any questions, please contact the USPS Internet Customer Care
Center (ICCC).  The ICCC is staffed from 7:00AM to 11:00PM Eastern Time.
        Email:  icustomercare@usps.com
        Telephone:  1-800-344-7779 (7:00AM to 11:00PM ET)

Thank you for helping the U.S. Postal Service provide new Internet services
to our shipping customers.

Sincerely,

The Internet Shipping Solutions Team

Description of web environment

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Created: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 01:00
Last Updated: Friday, 09 October 2015 13:38
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Joomla 1.5.2

Need to get exact tool and version names for the following:
Joomla Comment
Joomla Donations
Joomla Newsletter

Virtuemart 1.1.4
USPS Shipping Module 4.2
  To find Virtuemart shipping module:
  Navigate to > Store
  Shipping Modules List

Test area for website

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Created: Wednesday, 24 August 2011 01:00
Last Updated: Friday, 09 October 2015 13:38
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Copying files to a test area

1.     Use firefox or google chrome (IE has some problems)

2.     In cpanel, file manager, navigate to the primary domain

3.     Select all files, then deselect the media folder

4.     Choose copy, specify the target test area/subdomain.

-        db files will not copy

-        wait at least 10 minutes for the files to copy

-        every copied file is tagged with a new “last modified” (there is no override for this, folder timestamps may not be updated)

5.     Make a copy of the database

-        Can do this while the copy is occurring

a.     Go to phpmyadmin (under the database section of the cpanel)

b.     Go to Operations

c.     Make a name for the DB (ie: sandbox201108) and start the copy

d.     Go to mysqldatabases (under the database section of the cpanel)

e.     Verify that the new database is listed

f.      Add the default user to the new database – priests_jo152

6.     Update the configuration to point to the new database

a.     Open /public_html/test2j/configuration.php

b.     Replace the red text in the following strings

          var $log_path = '/home3/priests/public_html/thewordproclaimed.org/logs';

          var $tmp_path = '/home3/priests/public_html/thewordproclaimed.org/tmp';

          var $live_site = 'http://thewordproclaimed.org';

          var $user = 'priests_jo152';

          var $db = 'priests_sandbox201108';

          var $password = 'rjn[Lv45cFc1';

Gathering Statistics

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Created: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 01:00
Last Updated: Friday, 09 October 2015 13:38
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Some important statistics:

  • Web traffic – Stats from hosting service
  • Registered users – Joomla, Site > User Manager (also see below)
  • Order details – Joomla, Components > VirtueMart > Orders
  • Order summary – Joomla, Components > VirtueMart > Reports
  • Donations – Joomla, Components > Joom Donation > Donor Management

    • For the most part, I get the information by using select all (or I select table content using click/drag)cut, and paste into excel. Then once I’ve pasted into excel, I copy all the excel content into a new sheet using Paste Special > Values only. That gets the special junk out, but then you have to look for things you have to format like dates and currencies.

    Web traffic

    • Log into the cpanel
    • Scroll down until you see the Web Traffic box on the left side
    • Click View all traffic
    • Click View for the third URL - thewordproclaimed.org
    • Select the Monthly History graph and table and copy into MS Word
    • Scroll down to Downloads (top 10)
    • Select the Downloads and the Pages-URL tables and paste into MS Word

    User stats

    • Log into the cpanel
    • Navigate to WMyPHPAdmin
    • Choose the database j0152
    • Click Export
    • Choose Custom, All rows, CSV (not CSV for Excel)
    • Check Put column names in the first row
    • Choose Go and then save and open with paste into MS Excel