I'm doing some more hacking around with Commerce Server 2007 today. Just wanted to jot down a couple of things, not really directly Commerce Server related, but a couple of thing that are useful to know anyway.
1. In order to get the Commerce Server Sample site to work, you'll need to install and SSL certificate. While the CS2007 instructions do include how to do this, the instruction miss a small detail about installing it. Using the command line in the instructions, it will likely not install the certificate to the correct site. You must specify the IIS site number for the site. So instead of just:
c:> selfssl.exe /T /V:100
you'll want to include the site id like this:
c:> selfssl.exe /T /V:100 /s:19
So then comes the million dollar question. How do you know what your site id is? Well a tip from this site blog entry "How to find the SiteID in IIS5 and IIS6 " you'll have your answer. It tells you that you can pick up this tidbit of information from inetmgr.
2. Once you have your SSL cert installed and configured you'll finally be able to browse to the shopping care protected by SSL and running on port 443 of course. Once you log into your account or create a new one, you'll need a credit card number to complete your order. But what credit card number to use... a fake one of course. That's point 2 for the day - a link to some credit card numbers used for test purposes. (To be honest I don't know how the components in CS2007 validate this number - hopefully more on that in a future blog entry.) In any case here is a link to some fake numbers and some information about why they are fake.
(In case that blog goes away you can google this topic or just use this Visa number: 4916382885407798)
3. I've not had time to investigate but I've run across a couple of links about the integration of Commerce Server 2007 with MOSS. Here they are (again hopefully more on this later):
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/benrobb/archive/2006/10/23/14735.aspx
http://meiyinglim.blogspot.com/2006/10/integrating-microsoft-commerce-server.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/maxakbar/archive/2006/08/23/715405.aspx