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| Miva and Virtual Subhosts
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To provide Miva (not Miva Merchant)
for a Virtual Subhost,
we recommend that you use Miva's <VirtualHost>
configuration directive.
- Be sure that you are running the latest version of Miva. If
you are not running the latest version, you should consider Upgrading
Miva/HTMLScript.
- Be sure that the following parameters are set in miva.conf:
virtualhostvariable=SERVER_NAME
dnslookup=0
NOTE: If you choose to set virtualhostvariable=HTTP_HOST ,
then your miva.conf must have a <VirtualHost>
directive for each of the virtual subhost's domain names.
For example, using 'HTTP_HOST' will require both subhost-domain.com
and www.subhost-domain.com to have its own <VirtualHost>
directive in miva.conf. This is why we recommend
using 'SERVER_NAME' instead, because in your httpd.conf,
you can consolidate a virtual subhost's multiple host
names under a single <VirtualHost>
directive with just one ServerName .
This is documented in the instructions below. |
- Add the
<VirtualHost>
directive to miva.conf. Assuming that you are using virtualhostvariable=SERVER_NAME
in miva.conf, the name of the <VirtualHost>
should equal the ServerName
for the subhost defined in the <VirtualHost>
directive for your web server in your httpd.conf.
Ideally, the mivaroot
parameter should equal the virtual subhost's DocumentRoot
(another parameter of the <VirtualHost>
directive in httpd.conf).
The stdmodedatadir
should be outside of the ~/www/htdocs directory, unaccessable
by others, since all data collected by Miva will be stored in
that directory.
The VirtualHost directive in miva.conf should look
something like this:
<VirtualHost www.SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME>
mivaroot=/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/SUBHOST-DOMAIN-DIR
stdmodedatadir=/usr/local/etc/httpd/miva/SUBHOST-DOMAIN-DIR_data
mivadefault=index.html
serveradmin=webmaster@SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME
</VirtualHost>
- You may or may not need
to modify your web server configuration file, httpd.conf,
depending on the method you are using to give your virtual subhost's
CGI support. After ensuring that the parameters defined in the
<VirtualHost>
directive in httpd.conf matches those you set in the <VirtualHost>
directive of miva.conf, you must check if your subhost
has access to the Miva engine that was put in your ~/www/cgi-bin
during the Miva installation.
If the virtual subhost is sharing your Virtual Private Servers's primary
cgi-bin directory--meaning that you have not explicitly identified
an alternate ScriptAlias
for the subhost in the <VirtualHost>
directive of httpd.conf--then after following all the
instructions above, Miva should be setup and ready to support
your virtual subhost. If you don't understand what a ScriptAlias
is, then your virtual subhost is probably using your primary
cgi-bin directory and the Miva engine therein, so you don't
have to worry about making anymore changes. Go on to the next
step.
However, if the virtual subhost has its own cgi-bin
directory, then we would recommend that you give that virtual
subhost access to the Miva engine in your primary cgi-bin directory
by adding the following to your httpd.conf's <VirtualHost>
directive:
ScriptAlias /cgi-miva/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/
AddType application/x-httpd-Miva .mv
Action application/x-httpd-Miva /cgi-miva/miva
NOTE: If Miva still has problems running an application
for a virtual subhost, or runs the application but stores
data in the wrong directory, then delete all the files
in your workdir
(the default installation will have this set as ~/www/miva/workdir).
This directory contains a caching database with virtual
subhost configuration information. Deleting the database
files will require Miva to reload the new VirtualHost
information from miva.conf. |
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