Re: VendURL setting in catalog.cfg ...

[The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>]

Hrmmmm...is it "multiple catalogs per site" that I can do, not "multiple
sites per installatin"?  Do I have to install this seperately for each
virtual domain that wants to use this? *raised eyebrow*

thanks...


On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Hans-Joachim Leidinger wrote:

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> > Well, just spent the past several hours trying to narrow down where
> the
> > problem is, and think I might be getting somewhere, but have hit a
> brick
> > wall...
> > In catalog.cfg, if I set VendURL to:
> > VendURL                 http://www.pgsql.com/pgsql_prod.cgi
> > My index.html comes up as:
> > http:///pgsql_prod.cgi/index?pX4ZhP2T;;91
> > If I change it back to the 'default' on install:
> > VendURL                 http://__SERVER_NAME____CGI_URL__
> > I get:
> > http://www.pgsql.comhttp:///pgsql_prod.cgi/index?pX4ZhP2T;;956
> > And if I set it to just:
> > VendURL                 __CGI_URL__
> > I get, again:
> > http:///pgsql_prod.cgi/index?pX4ZhP2T;;995
> > Where the Variables are set as:
> > Variable    SERVER_NAME     www.pgsql.com
> > Variable    CGI_URL         http://www.pgsql.com/pgsql_prod.cgi
> > Note that I started all this with the default settings that 'makecat'
> > creates, since I wanted to see it in operation *first*, and then was
> going
> > to play around with it.  The above changes to VendURL are after
> looking at
> > everything else I can think of...
> > The above two variables are the only ones I've played with, that seem
> to
> > change the <A HREF...> output for the resultant html output...
> > Currently, I'm at a loss, so any help/direction would be much
> > appreciated...
> > Thanks...
> > Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick:
> Scrappy
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary:
> scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
> >
> 
> Hi Marc, this is my simple.cfg (/home/mvend/simple.cfg)
> 
> (a part from it)
> SERVERNAME     www.buchonline.net
> STOREID        simple
> DEMOTYPE        simple
> [del]
> ENCRYPTOR       none
> PERMTYPE    M
> # Full path to catalogdirectory "simple" outside from the public www
> directory
> CATROOT         /www/catalogs/simple
> # -----> Hi Marc... make sure, your setting of your webserver is right
> (if you use apache)
> CGIDIR          /www/cgi-bin
> # The URL location of the CGI program, without the http://
> # or server name.
> # http://www.virtual.com/cgi-bin/prog
> #                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> # http://www.virtual.com/program.cgi
> #                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> CGIURL          /cgi-bin/simple
> ALIASES         /cgi-bin/simple
> DOCUMENTROOT    /www/www_public/mvshop
> SAMPLEHTML      /www/www_public/mvshop/simple
> IMAGEDIR        /www/www_public/mvshop/simple/images
> IMAGEURL        /images
> 
> Summery of my filessystem is
> 
> /www/cgi-bin
> /www/catalogs/simple
> /www/www_public/mvshop
> /www/www_public/mvshop/simple
> /www/www_public/mvshop/simple/images
> 
> And this is my catalog.cfg (/home/mvend/simple/catalog.cfg)
> (a part from it)
> Variable    SERVER_NAME     __MVC_SERVERNAME__
> Variable    CGI_URL         __MVC_CGIURL__
> Variable    SECURE_SERVER   http://__MVC_SERVERNAME__
> Variable    IMAGE_DIR       __MVC_IMAGEURL__
> Variable    DOCROOT         __MVC_DOCUMENTROOT__
> Variable    SAMPLEHTML      __MVC_SAMPLEHTML__
> Variable    SAMPLEURL       __MVC_SAMPLEURL__
> ## END SITE CONFIGURATION
> VendURL                 http://__SERVER_NAME____CGI_URL__
> 
> Short summary:
> You define site information in simple.cfg and not in catalog.cfg.
> You make a catalog with i.e. "/home/mvend/bin/makecat simple" (use the
> configfile "/home/mvend/simple.cfg")
> After building new catalog, go to /www/catalogs/simple/catalog.cfg and
> look into this file. You get a hints if something goes wrong.
> 
> Good luck
> 
> Joachim
> 
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Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org