SSL Strageness Solved

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

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I have been struggling to get SSL to work Minivend. I finally got it to
work. The problem was that the path to the secure site for my hosting
company (cihost.com) is:

machine.secureserver.com/cgi-mysite/simple
                             ^^^^^^

This caused Minivend to somehow generate the path:

/cgi-mysite/mysite/simple
           ^^^^^^^

I still don't know why it's adding that second "mysite" in there. The
solution was to add another alias to the Catalog directive in minivend.cfg
to the weird, non-existant path:

Catalog  simple /home/mysite/catalogs/simple /cgi-bin/simple
/cgi-mysite/simple /cgi-mysite/mysite/simple


I tried making a symlink to my /cgi-bin directory called /cgi-mysite and
made all references to be for /cgi-mysite/simple, but then I got an extra,
even weirder path of /cgi-mysite/mysite/mysite/simple.

I guess Minivend figures the paths will be something like to following:

www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/simple
www.secureserver.com/mysite/cgi-bin/simple


So I guess the moral to the story is: when specifying a secure server, if
Minivend gives errors that weird paths that don't exist, try adding the
weird paths as aliases.

Christopher Thompson

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