Re: Static Page Building (help)

["Hans-Joachim Leidinger" <hans-joachim.leidinger@home.gelsen-net.de>]

Hi Trevor,

i have figured out how to use the static build capability by minivend.
Edit your catalog.cfg and change the static setting. I.e.

########### Static
##
## Default: No
#
# A yes/no directive. Enables static page building and display features.
#
Static   yes


########### StaticAll
##
## Default: No
# A yes/no directive.  Tells MiniVend to try and build all pages in the
catalog
# statically when called with the static page build option.
#
#StaticAll   Yes

########### StaticDepth
##
## Default: 1
#
# The number of levels of static search building that will be done if a
search
# results page contains a search. Set to 0 to disable re-scanning of
search
# results pages.
#
StaticDepth 0

########### StaticDir
##
## Default: static
#
# The absolute path of the directory which should be used as the root
for
# static pages. The user ID executing MiniVend must have write
permission on
# the directory (and all files within) if this is to work.
#
StaticDir   /yourcatalogdir/yourshopdir/yourstaticdir


########### StaticFly
##
## Default: No
#
# A yes/no directive. If set to Yes, static builds will attempt to
generate
# a page for every part number in the database using the on-the-fly page
build
# capability.
#
#StaticFly   Yes


########### StaticPage
##
## Default: blank
#
# Tells MiniVend to build the named page (or pages, whitespace
separated) when
# employing the static page-building capability of MiniVend. Not
necessary if
# using StaticAll.
#
# StaticPage   info/about_us  info/terms_and_conditions
StaticPage   yourpagetobuildstatic1 yourpagetobuildstatic2

########### StaticPath
##
## Default: blank
#
# The path (relative to HTTP document root) which should be used in
references
# built by and referred to by the page-building capability of MiniVend.
#
StaticPath http://www.yourdomain.com/yourshop/yourstaticdir

I hope it can help you.

Joachim




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| > At 02:03 PM 6/25/99 , Trevor Sky Garside wrote:
| > >******    message to minivend-users from "Trevor Sky Garside"
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| > >
| > >Hi, all...
| > >
| > >I'm currently trying to implement static page building on my
catalog.
| > >[Running on a Cobalt RaQ / Linux / Minivend 3.14]
| > >
| > >For some reason, my three main catalog pages are coming up as
| > having dynamic
| > >elements, and are thus skipped.  I scoured over the pages, and
| > found nothing
| > >that should be dynamic.  So I put - at the very top - a [tag flag
| > >build][/tag], like the manual says.  Unfortunately, this had
| > absolutely no
| > >effect.
| > >
| > >I am baffeled.
| > >
| > >If anybody has any insight, I would appreciate it.
| >
| > I've never gotten static page building to work.  ;-)
|
| Neither have I. I got some page building, gave up on it. It sounds
like a
| great thing though. I generate static product pages by having MS
Access
| export HTML. Ugly but it works.
|
| Christopher Thompson
|