Cart page shows VM store description and "hot products" etc

[timdl]

First off, thanks a lot to joomla and VM people: you make my life (financially) better :-)

Joomla! 2.5.16
VM 2.0.26d
php 5.3.28

Problem page: http://www.coshop.be/v2/cart
Premium template from: http://www.virtuemarttemplates.net/virtuemart-templates/echo-virtuemart-template.html

Question:
When you surf to the cart page, it seems like it's my homepage/frontpage.
It has: slideshow, menu, "echo webstore" delivery module, VM store desc, hot products, and welcome text which should only show on the homepage.

Something tells me that the cart is secretly a homepage function.

Preferred solution:
Cart page without all the above mentioned homepage extras
Can it be done without hacking into code?

Also, can the virtuemart alert box be turned off?


Much appreciated for your time

Solution
It turned out to be an issue that the homepage's item ID was given to the cart module and then Joomla/VM decided to show homepage modules as well.
I added a menu item for the VM Cart module to an invisible menu and it works fine now :-)

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18140657/problems-in-virtumart-cart-page-and-product-description-page

[John2400]

In the modules area, you can choose what pages the modules appear on. What is happening here is that the modules are set to appear on all pages. Go to theses modules see what the setting is and either untick the cart page or choose the pages you would like these to appear.
There is an option that says only these particular pages.

[timdl]

In the modules area, you can choose what pages the modules appear on. What is happening here is that the modules are set to appear on all pages. Go to theses modules see what the setting is and either untick the cart page or choose the pages you would like these to appear.
There is an option that says only these particular pages.

John, thanks for your swift answer.

What you suggested to me was my first thought as well.
But that didnt turn out to be the issue:


could it be that the template is poorly made? It really seems like my cart page IS my homepage

i dont seem to be having a cart menuitem/page, might this be the issue?

when i turn off SEF urls in joomla control panel it seems fine:
http://www.coshop.be/v2/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=cart

im not an expert on these matters, any help will be much appreciated
my .htaccess file: http://pastebin.com/5QwbnRtd

[jenkinhill]

Is your Joomla home page menu item is set to VirtueMart Front page?

When using SEF make sure it is turned on in both Joomla and  VirtueMart and apply an Seo Suffix. See if that fixes the home page problem.

[timdl]

Is your Joomla home page menu item is set to VirtueMart Front page?

When using SEF make sure it is turned on in both Joomla and  VirtueMart and apply an Seo Suffix. See if that fixes the home page problem.

Again, swift help :-)

Here is how i've configured at the moment
Maybe important to note: ive had a lot of trouble getting stuff to work in dutch as the data was entered in english.
Had to copy language tables etc but that seems to work fine now

[timdl]

Solution added to original post