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MIVA Merchant 5 Online Help


MIVA Merchant 5 - Online Help

Index of Help Topics

Configuring the MIVA Engine and Stores

The following is intended for Web hosting companies transitioning to MIVA Merchant 5 from earlier versions. If you are an online merchant with a MIVA Merchant store, you can disregard this information.

See also: Upgrading Stores to MIVA Merchant 5.

MIVA Empresa 5 Engine

Engine installation instructions are identical to 4.x installation instructions, with the exception of the new database interface libraries. Those instructions are available here.

Windows

MIVA Empresa v5.00 and MIVA Mia v5.00 kits will install and configure both the MivaSQL interface and integrated database, and the interface to work with your existing MySQL server, automatically.

UNIX

The MivaSQL or the MySQL database library must be configured in your httpd.conf.

For example:

SetEnv MvCONFIG_DATABASE_MivaSQL /usr/local/miva/lib/databases/mivasql.so

SetEnv MvCONFIG_DATABASE_MySQL /usr/local/miva/lib/databases/mysql.so

MIVA Merchant 5 - Setup Stores

When setting up MIVA Merchant 5 stores for your customers, you will see a new screen for database connections. MivaSQL and MySQL are currently supported.

MySQL

Connection String

This is the database name and the "@" sign, followed by the host name.

Valid Connection Flag Values

log
This will append query code generation and optimization information to the file named "sql.log" in the data directory.
log=filename
This will append query code generation and optimization information to the file called "filename" in the data directory.

MivaSQL

Connection String

This is the file, relative to the data directory, where MIVA Merchant metadata will be stored. Table and Indexes will be created in relative to this file.

For instance, the default is Merchant5/mivamerchant.dbf. Domain and store tables are either in Merchant5 or in subdirectories depending on their name.

See "subdir_char" in the Miva Empresa release notes for more information on how subdirectories are managed by MivaSQL.

Valid Connection Flag Values

log
This will append query code generation and optimization information to the file named "sql.log" in the data directory.
log=filename
This will append query code generation and optimization information to the file called "filename" in the data directory.

Related Topics:

Upgrading to the MIVA Empresa 5 Engine (for Hosts)

Configuring New MIVA Merchant 5 Accounts, Using setup.xml (for Hosts)

Upgrading Stores to MIVA Merchant 5 (for Online Merchants)

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