RE: Big Rookie Need Help

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>     ******

This seems to be the first conceptual hurdle with Minivend (there are about
a million more coming up for you). Minivend pages are NOT kept in the web
server's html directory. The pages are accessed through a CGI script,
typically in the /cgi-bin directory. This script usually has the same name
as the catalog created, such as /cgi-bin/simple for the demo catalog. Here's
an example layout (your names will probably be different):

Inside web server space
/cgi-bin/simple          The script that delivers pages to the web server

Outside web server space
/home/minivend		 The directory for Minivends files
/home/catalogs/simple    The HTML, data and config files for the demo
catalog

If you give only /cgi-bin/simple as the URL, Minivend displays the page
/home/catalogs/simple/catalog.html file.

To display a page named mypage.html in the demo, put it into the
/home/catalogs/simple/pages directory. Then use [page href="mypage"] within
an HTML file (such as the /home/catalogs/simple/catalog.html) to access the
page. Minivend will generate the URL /cgi-bin/simple/mypage?xxxxxx;;nnn
(where xxxxxx and nnn are generated my Minivend for reasons you can read
about in the documentation).

Christopher Thompson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Keith Wells
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 10:31 AM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Big Rookie Need Help
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from Keith Wells
> <kwells@gs.net>     ******
>
> I ran ./configure, and the process seems to have gone ok. I also
> installed the simple demo but I dont see and html file in the www
> directory (web server html directory) so how can I run the demo? Was the
> install incomplete? mvend is in the root of the directory and not the
> html directory; I believe this is correct. How can I verify that
> everything is installed corretly in order to run the demo?
> I have set this up on a UNIX machine with my Hosting company.Also,  I
> hsve the right version of Perl.
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