About: David Fallace

I finally found and fixed the problem with the downloads.
I knew that I had not encountered this problem in my testing over the weekend.
However, when I installed the security certificate (for tech reasons) the official name of the site had to change from http://lowvolatilitystocks.com to http://www.lowvolatilitystocks.com

This change allowed for the SSL security certificate to work properly, but it broke the security features of our membership program protecting the downloads.

When I went back in to the page code and changed the download links from
<a href=”http://lowvolatilitystocks.com/?s2member_file_download=US_Cap_All_Small_2012-05.pdf”&gt;
to
<a href=”http://www.lowvolatilitystocks.com/?s2member_file_download=US_Cap_All_Small_2012-05.pdf”&gt;

The downloads started working again, complete with our limitations on the number of reports downloaded.

This was just one of those very unfortunate fluke problems that keeps programmers up at night.

So my advice is the if you plan to use ProForms, you will need to have an SSL certificate. Be very sure to include (or exclude) the www host name in your site and S2 configuration to match the certificate demands.

BTW I also had to go back and edit all my proform shortcodes with the WWW as well.

That’s great thank you! This plugin is extremely easy to use as most questions are answered right in the admin pages. Of course I have a few sticky questions.

Can you tell me, is there a way to support both monthly and annual memberships without creating two pro-forms (monthly/annual) for each real level of access to the site?

I am using Authorize.net pro-forms.

I suspect that I should hack the pro-form. I was hoping to learn the “Easiest” way to do it before I start experimenting.

Also creating extra membership levels beyond the first 5 is a mystery to me. (I am using S2pro) I see hints, but again, I suspect there is an easy thing I am missing.

Thanks for your support.