RE: [mv] Minivend site on a CD-ROM?

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

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Thanks for the info Mike. I don't think installing Apache is a option. A
simple installation on low end machines is what is wanted.

I guess what is not clear to me is the mechanics of doing this. The concept
I have is of replacing the Apache/CGI interface with a direct call to Perl.
I imagine an [area catalog] statement generating a URL something like (E:
being the CD-ROM):

  "E:\perl\bin\perl E:\mvend\bin\minivend E:\mycat\pages\catalog.html?..."

or would it call the catalog CGI script which would in turn call the
minivend script, such as:

  "E:\perl\bin\perl E:\bin\mycat E:\mycat\pages\catalog.html?..."


Obviously I am giving these as examples with full paths. I am just trying to
understand how to get from:

request -> Apache -> cgi -> minivend -> Apache -> html

to:

request -> minivend -> html

or

request -> cgi -> minivend -> html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Mike Heins
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 10:40 AM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: [mv] Minivend site on a CD-ROM?
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from Mike Heins
> <mikeh@minivend.com>     ******
>
> Quoting Christopher Thompson (ct@arborinternet.com):
> >
> > I had a client ask if part of their Minivend (3.15) site could be put on
> > CD-ROM. That made me wonder if you could run a site locally
> through Perl and
> > the minivend script only without a webserver (obviously with some
> > modification). I know MV has a mini webserver in it. Many of
> the pages in
> > question are mostly a big [perl] statements, so recoding the
> whole thing in
> > Perl is Plan A at this point. But the idea of the minivend
> script serving up
> > pages directly sounded interesting.
> >
>
> I actually built one of these once, back in MV3.08 or so days, on
> a Windows box. It was going to be a touch-screen kiosk mirroring
> an online catalog, but the project never took off.
>
> This effort was mightily helped by the fact that the Windows version
> file locking routine was sub {1}. I think I changed the source to not
> do sessions, so nothing was ever written.
>
> I have fixed the MSIE redirect problems of the internal web server
> in Interchange, so it would be even more possible to do this.
>
> > I know webserverless Minivend sounds hair-brained, but then I
> thought about
> > Mike Heins back in his castle laboratory having Igor reel the kites out
> > further so he can get more electricity for his creation . . .
> >
>
> 8-) In this case, the hard part would be mapping the right files to the
> CDROM. With disk space as cheap as it is, it is probably just easier to
> copy from the CDROM via an RPM and put up a demo catalog. And install
> Apache at the same time. 8-) But the internal web server would serve
> the images if you wanted it to.
>
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