How to setup Miva Mia localhost

From: Mr. Bruce <[email protected]>

I have partialy developed my "live" merchannts site but realize that I am quickly
using up my alotted hours (150 Hours) and my local ISP is the only available option
in the rural area in which I live. I need to finish developement on a LocalHost .
Please advise me as to hoe to set up a localhost, please pay particular
attention to "path" instructions, as this is where I have had the most problems.
Perhaps you can even reffer me to some refference sources on the topic.
Thank You for your help! Mr.Bruce

How to setup Miva Mia localhost



About all the information you need is at:
<A HREF ="http://www.santafemall.com/faq/mia/mia.html">http://www.santafemall.com/faq/mia/mia.html</A>

Set the paths for local. All your graphic URL's have to be relative or you
will
be looking online for files.

[email protected]
>
> I have partialy developed my "live" merchannts site but realize that I am
quickly
> using up my alotted hours (150 Hours) and my local ISP is the only
available option
> in the rural area in which I live. I need to finish developement on a
LocalHost .
> Please advise me as to hoe to set up a localhost, please pay particular
> attention to "path" instructions, as this is where I have had the most
problems.
> Perhaps you can even reffer me to some refference sources on the topic.
> Thank You for your help! Mr.Bruce
>
>

How to setup Miva Mia localhost



This may help you out assuming you're using, or can use, a similar
setup. I'm using an NT server (although it could be on my win98/95
machine) with Miva Mia running. I also have Apache running, so opted
for the port:8000 setup.

The main steps are:
copy your miva web dir from the server to the local machine
copy your miva data dir from the server to the local machine
MAKE SURE YOU ARE OFFLINE after the copies (so your edits do not go to
your website) If it tries to dial, kill it.
setup Miva Mia and point data/web dirs to wherever you put them.
edit Merchant/lib/config.mv (in the web dir) to point to the new data
dir.
browse to localhost:8000/Merchant/admin.mv (ignore the broken images)
go to 'mall' settings.
Edit all of the url's. You only have to change the server name from
www.YourWebSite.com to localhost (leave all the rest the same
'http:.../Merchant/whatever'). Unless you actually have a local ssl
setup, you should probably change any 'https's to 'http' (no 's').
At this point, you may have to force a reload in your browser for the
images to appear.

That should do it. You can now make all the mistakes you want, without
the world knowing it <G>, and more importantly, without having to pay
your ISP as you stumble through your learning curve.

Good luck, and happy hacking!


Miva Merchant List Archive wrote:
>
> From: Mr. Bruce <[email protected]>
>
> I have partialy developed my "live" merchannts site but realize that I am quickly
> using up my alotted hours (150 Hours) and my local ISP is the only available option
> in the rural area in which I live. I need to finish developement on a LocalHost .
> Please advise me as to hoe to set up a localhost, please pay particular
> attention to "path" instructions, as this is where I have had the most problems.
> Perhaps you can even reffer me to some refference sources on the topic.
> Thank You for your help! Mr.Bruce
>