Re: [mv] Moving an existing Minivend configuration

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

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Probably the easiest way is to install minivend and a demo catalog on the 
development machine, following the minivend docs.  Give the demo catalog 
the same name as the one which is running.  Once you have confirmed that 
the demo works, copy the pages directory and all subdirs, exported sources 
for database files (i.e. products.txt, userdb.txt, may be .asc in 3.1x 
installations, be sure to export them from the running catalog before 
copying, if you need current data) into the corresponding places in the 
demo install.  Paste the "catalog definition" block of variables from your 
demo catalog.cfg file into a copy of the catalog.cfg from the running 
catalog, and use this "hybrid" to replace the catalog.cfg in your demo 
install.  Reconfigure the catalog (or restart the minivend server) and you 
should have it!

Note that you may need to do some "spot" editing of the catalog.cfg here 
and there, if someone had defined variables for paths, external programs or 
whatever, in scattered locations throughout the catalog.cfg.

- Ed L.


At 07:26 PM 6/6/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>     I am a newbie using Minivend. I am just trying to make run an already 
> running minivend configuration in another machine for development. Which 
> is the best method to do that? Should I copy all the files from the 
> source machine, and then battle against configuration files? Or should I 
> install minivend on the target machine, and try to set up the catalog 
> imported instead?
>
>     I'm quite lost, any help will be appreciated. Thanks
>
>     Unai

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