Re: [mv] not showing the vlink in the url.....someone?

["Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>]

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> I dont like this solution.  I prefer that www.mycatalog.com doesnt change,
> so the user never visualizes that he is running a cgi, and ive seen this in
> a few stores made by other people....even in different sections of the store
> the www.whatever.com stays that way....
> Now, is this done using frames?  I am trying to find a UNIX way to do it,
> maybe aliasing, but ive heard that it is not possible...since i dont believe
> this is possible using unix, i am asking for suggestions that might save me
> a lot of time.

This is pretty much a server dependent thing.  If you're using Apache,
you want to ScriptAlias the catalog to the right place.  Let's say that
your catalog.cfg has this:

   Variable    CGI_URL         /cgi-bin/whatever.com

But you want it to show up as whatever.com/catalog instead.  You
can add a ScriptAlias directive to Apache to do this:

   ScriptAlias /catalog/ /mnt/WWW/whatever.com/cgi-bin/whatever.com/

You'll then need to change the CGI_URL line in minivend.cfg:

   Variable    CGI_URL         /cgi-bin/catalog

Also change the third field in that catalog's Catalog definition
in ~minivend/minivend.cfg to /cgi-bin/catalog...

Restart the Web server, then restart minivend...

That should do it!  This is a great way to have multiple sites under
Minivend with the (apparently) same catalog directory.

Chris
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