Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

[Jim McCormick]

Miva Merchant Mia v5.X will allow you to setup your compiled (v4.14-v5.X) Miva Merchant shopping cart on your PC/Intel Mac. If you're using an Intel Mac you must be running Parallels Desktop or dual booting to Windows.

You can download Miva Merchant Mia here:
http://www.miva.com/support/downloads

Get the docs here:
http://www.miva.com/docs

Downloading your store:

You need to download your scripts (HTML) and mivadata (DATA) directories.

If you're using Miva Merchant 4.X, by default, you will have two 'Merchant2' folders, one for scripts and one for data. Your scripts directory will have your .mvc files and the data will have your .dbf and .mvx files.

If you're using Miva Merchant 5.0 the scripts are named 'mm5' by default and data is called 'Merchant5' by default. These directory names can be different depending on your host provider.

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Once you install Mia, run it and you will see these two directories:

Miva Merchant Mia will look for WWW documents in the following directory:
c:\Miva\MivaMia\HTML

Miva Merchant Mia will store data in the following directory:
c:\Miva\MivaMia\DATA

Copy your Merchant2/mm5 scripts(WWW,HTML) into the HTML directory and copy your Merchant2/Merchant5 data into the DATA directory.

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Once that is done you will need to login to the admin and change the site configuration to match the local environment.

Open Mia and click on 'Home Page'. In the address bar of your browser you should see something like:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/

You want to add Merchant2/admin.mvc so you get this:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/Merchant2/admin.mvc

Once you login, click on Domain Settings -> Site Configuration. Delete all of the secure URL's and change the URL's to match the local environment.

http://www.yourdomain.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?

would be changed to:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?

(obviously if the scripts are called something different you will want to use that name instead...ie /mm5/, /store/, etc. )

-note-

You CAN use Mia with Merchant5 and MySQL. You will have to download and install MySQL onto your local machine first. Please let me know if anyone would like help getting Merchant 5 running locally with MySQL. I cannot help much with the MySQL installed/setup but I can help you get Merchant running once MySQL is setup.

-note 2 -

You also have to have OpenSSL installed on your computer. here's the download link if you don't already have it setup:

http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

Download the latest version. You must restart after installing.

[d_host]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

Miva Mia v5.X will allow you to setup your compiled (v4.14-v5.X) Miva Merchant shopping cart on your PC/Intel Mac. If you're using an Intel Mac you must be running Parallels Desktop or dual booting to Windows.

Jim - just as an FYI - VMware Fusion is another great option for running Windows on a Mac. I've been using both Parallels and VMware Fusion across a number of Macs and both work exceptionally well with Windows XP and Vista.

[tbogus]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

Remik - this is way OT - but both Parallels and VMware Fusion require an XP or Vista license, correct? I'm using VMware to run a version of Linux - which obviously free, but I just wanted to double-check...

Thanks.

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

Yes they do.

[d_host]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

Parallels and VMware Fusion are just virtualization software packages. Since you are installing Windows XP (or Vista), part of that install requires a license key and then activation with Microsoft within 30 days, before the software goes into limited functionality mode (Windows, that is, not Parallels or Fusion). Most flavors of Linux are free, hence no license key required. The licensing for Windows has nothing to do with Parallels or Fusion - it's exactly the same as if you were installing it on a stand-alone machine.

[capnhud]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

Just one question concerning setting up the directories (MM 4.24) are you supposed to only have inside the DATA folder just Merchant2 or is everything that you may have inside the mivadata directory supposed to be in here (DATA)?

[d_host]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

Your local mivadata folder should be a mirror image of whatever you have on your web server, so if you have files in there outside of the mivadata folder, copy them as well. That could be your mySQL connector file, elf.log, malf.log, etc (though you don't need the logs for running MM on your PC).

[capnhud]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

Your local mivadata folder should be a mirror image of whatever you have on your web server, so if you have files in there outside of the mivadata folder, copy them as well. That could be your mySQL connector file, elf.log, malf.log, etc (though you don't need the logs for running MM on your PC).

Ok just wanted to be sure.



What are the exact setting that are necessary in the site configuration that I need to change in order to see product images? I followed what was suggested in A Beginners Guide to Miva Mia for a 4.24 store, but all I see is red x's.

[ada2603248]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

I setup my local store with miva merchant 5 and mySQL
maybe, I've done something wrong, so it didnt work

when I run http://127.0.0.1:8000/Merchant2/admin.mvc?, it prompted that:
Error Code: MER-ADM-00003
Description: Miva Merchant has not been initialized. Please use the MIVA Merchant Setup script to initialize the required data files.

when I run setup, it said:

Miva Merchant 5 Production Release 5 Setup

Miva Merchant 5 Production Release 5 Setup has detected that Miva Merchant has already been initialized on your system. If you wish to re-initialize the data files, please remove the Merchant5/ subdirectory and its contents from your Miva data directory, and re-run this script.

please help me

[capnhud]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

I am using Miva Mia 5.06 for a 4.24 miva store and I can log into admin with no problem but when I view product pages none of the images show up even though I have went to domain setting>site configuration> and made the necessary changes to reflect that I am on a local server, but all I get are red x product and thumbnails. What would be the reason for that? Since some of the images are showing up, but not others even though all the images are in the graphics/00000001 directory.

[Jim McCormick]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

I am using Miva Mia 5.06 for a 4.24 miva store and I can log into admin with no problem but when I view product pages none of the images show up even though I have went to domain setting>site configuration> and made the necessary changes to reflect that I am on a local server, but all I get are red x product and thumbnails. What would be the reason for that? Since some of the images are showing up, but not others even though all the images are in the graphics/00000001 directory.

What is your Site configuration settings and what is the URL to the admin?

[Jim McCormick]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

I setup my local store with miva merchant 5 and mySQL
maybe, I've done something wrong, so it didnt work

when I run http://127.0.0.1:8000/Merchant2/admin.mvc?, it prompted that:
Error Code: MER-ADM-00003
Description: Miva Merchant has not been initialized. Please use the MIVA Merchant Setup script to initialize the required data files.

when I run setup, it said:

Miva Merchant 5 Production Release 5 Setup

Miva Merchant 5 Production Release 5 Setup has detected that Miva Merchant has already been initialized on your system. If you wish to re-initialize the data files, please remove the Merchant5/ subdirectory and its contents from your Miva data directory, and re-run this script.

please help me

What is the database type? Are you using MySQL or mivasql?

[capnhud]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

the url to admin is http://127.0.0.1/Merchant2/merchant.mvc

here is an image of the domain settings>site configuration for a 4.24 miva store.



even if I delete the secure url's nothing shows up still.

[capnhud]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

What is the complete Site Configuration? What are the settings for graphics?

Root Directory for Graphics:
Base URL for Graphics:

In the site configuration it is exactly what you see in the screenshot image. Is there another site configuration that your are referring too? Or are you indicating that I need to add http://127.0.0.1/ to the

Root Directory for Graphics:
Base URL for Graphics:

?

[Jim McCormick]

Re: Setting up Miva Mia with Miva Merchant v4.14-v5.0

Is there an 'en-US' folder inside of Merchant2/graphics?