Two Questions About My Site (one Answered) Need a bit of help

Ok question number 1:

 

I am using a modified version of oscommerce, and as some may know you go onto a website extention to access the administrators panel, but to access it you get a prompt for a password, the password was set when i installed oscommerce on the server, now i want to change the password, i have found the file .htaccess for the admin pannel and have found the password file but it is just a jumble of letters and numbers approximately 10 letters and numbers long, how do i change the password?

Question 2 (dont think anyone will be able to answer this unless you have a knowlage of oscommerce)

 

As many of you know oscommerce is open scource and contributions (homemade upgrades made byuy members) are available. I have downloaded and installed "individual shipping" contribution module but when i change a product there is no box to put in the individual shipping shippng price, what needs to be done or modified? Thanks in advance.

Edited July 9, 2006 by Bkag (see edit history)

Answer To Question 1:

 

The password file, which if I am not mistaken is called .htpasswd has been encrypted using a method of encoding. There is one particular tool online which can do this for you. Just follow these steps and see if it works. Back up your files first.

Delete the current contents of the .htpasswd file.

 

Go here and enter your desired username and password into the text boxes under point one. You can ignore steps two and three.

 

Click submit and scroll down to step two. Copy the text in the textbox into your .htpasswd file. Save.

ok thanks that cleared that up.

ive done quite alot wiht os commerce, you probably if there is no box for it then you may need to get into the php and edit it yourself, just edit the line you need and hope for the best, also make sure u backup and backup becuase if you loose it you are f***ed and thats not good!if you need any more help wiht os commerce then pm or just post a topic, although no guarentees ill find it lol, well i hope this has helped, use dreamweaver to edit the php because it colour codes it and has some functions built it!, os commerce is a very customizable solution that you cna use!make sure with oscommerce that you just keep backing up and dont loose any of it because you may need to return later to something you dont use!ive had a look at your site! and well its ok yhouve got everything on but you definatly need to change the template make it a bit well better!! also you should remove the line at the bottom which says powerd by os commerce! that kinda sucks! other than the template and the notice its a great site!, if you need a template done i can do one for a price! just pm for details all site logos and things will be incorperated!

It may sound like a stupid suggestion, but have you tried asking on their official support thread?

 

http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/50221-contribution-individual-product-shipping-prices/

Well i have asked on contributions support but not on the offical thread, ill do that