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Started by scubasteve21, September 30, 2012, 16:37:47 PM

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scubasteve21

I have set up my shop and only allowing PayPal payments, at the moment, as I have not set up a secure URL. But I am getting the following message and was wondering how I go about resolving the issue:

Warning, the Safe Path is not accessible (does not exist or no permission), for safety reasons it is very important to create a folder in a path not accessible by an URL, create also a folder invoices in it to store your sensitive data secure. Our suggested path is for your system /home/linweb12/f/SITEURL/user/vmfiles

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scubasteve21

I have had a read of the link above but I am not sure if I am doing/understanding.

Set up a "Safe Path".
To do this, first create a directory for downloadable files, even if you do not sell downloads. This directory is best placed outside your Joomla root for security, when this is not possible give it some obscure unguessable name, such as wgettyty. Within this create a subdirectory called invoices.

What I have done for this section is I have created a folder - say 'secretname' and inside this folder I have another one called 'invoicess'

Then in VM Configuration/Templates/Media File Settings against "Safe path " (shown as "Path for Sale" in VM 2.0.2) enter the full server path to your download directory. Do not use a relative path, it will not work.
I have told Virtuemart where I want invoices to go - secretname/Invoices

Is this wrong?