[mv] InfoWorld Article

["Christopher Thompson" <ct@arborinternet.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Christopher Thompson" <ct@arborinternet.com>     ******

FYI - Minivend is on a list of e-commerce resources on page 59 of this
weeks InfoWorld. It is in a sidebar to an article on using Linux for
e-commerce, but does not otherwise mention Minivend.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Ed LaFrance
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 6:23 PM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: [mv] UserTags not working
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance
> <newmedia@newmediaems.com>     ******
>
> At 05:27 PM 3/27/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from Bill Randle
> ><billr@exgate.tek.com>     ******
> >
> >Ed,
> >
> >You didn't mention if you modified any of the demo pages or
> are using them "as
> >shipped". Usually, when I see unprocessed tags show up in the
> page, it's
> >because of a bad [if][/if] - either mismatched, or a typo somewhere.
>
> Bill -
>
> No, I had not edited anything - the demo installed with the
> usertags not
> working.
>
> I still have some kind of permissions issue with this install.
> I cannot
> stop or restart the sever without getting the "Could not lock file:
> Permission denied" error.  Instead, I have to use the unix
> "kill" command.
>
> Since I posted the usertag question, the whole install is coming
> unraveled.  I started poking around in minivend.cfg and catalog.cfg and
> strange errors are showing up in the catalog. I am not doing
> anything that
> I don't do all the time with other 3.1x installations and am
> using all the
> same tools, but all of a sudden the catalog cant find the cart,
> can't find
> itself... wierd stuff.
>
> I am doing a new install. If you have experienced any of these
> things and
> have any ideas, please let me know.
>
> - Ed L.
>
>
>
>
> >Unfortunately, minivend doesn't seem to do very good at catching these.
> >Sometimes, I've even had to resort to chopping a page down until it
> >starts working correctly, then add pieces back in until it fails.
> >[I'm assuming there's no errors in either the catalog error.log or
> >global error.log files....]
> >
> >         -Bill
> >
> >Ed LaFrance wrote:
> > >
> > > ******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance
> > <edlafrance@printexusa.com>     ******
> > >
> > > Hi all -
> > >
> > > Right out of the box, none of the usertags in the simple
> demo are being
> > > interpreted by Minivend - the tag itself shows up as page
> text instead.
> > > This is in Minivend 4.02.  I've seen it in 3.1x on my
> earlier installations
> > > and those of other people as well.
> > >
> > > The tags are defined in catalog.cfg and minivend.cfg.  Any
> suggestions as
> > > to what to look for next?
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