Part 6 - E-Commerce / Virtual Storefronts / Miva Merchant

The following topics are discussed further:

• Miva Merchant - Getting Started - Software Configuration
• The following Miva Merchant topics link to Miva's web site:
  
  • Miva Merchant - Getting Started as an Online Business
  • Miva Merchant Administration Demo
  • Miva Merchant Shopping Demo
  • Miva Merchant Complete List of Key Features
  • Sites using Miva Merchant
  • Miva Merchant Support Site
  • Miva Merchant Complete Documentation
  • Miva Merchant FAQs
• SSL Secure Server Transactions (In Part Five: CGI Scripts)
• That's An Order Shopping Cart (In Part Five: CGI Scripts)
• Miva Script (formerly Htmlscript) (In Part Seven: Databases)

Miva Merchant - Getting Started - Software Configuration

Miva Merchant is available via our E-Commerce Web Hosting accounts. Before you start to use Miva Merchant, we strongly recommend that you review Miva Merchant's Online Documentation, in particular, the Miva Merchant "How To" Guides and the Miva Merchant Customization Guides.

The Miva Merchant license that you receive from us is good only on our network and can not be taken with you.

After you have ordered Miva Merchant, we will configure it for your account with the information below. You may wish to reference this information in the future in case you would like to re-install Miva Merchant via http://YourDomainName.com/Merchant2/setup.mvc.

Miva Merchant Secure Administration Interface

https://YourServerName.safe-order.net/cgi-bin/smivavm?YourDomainName/Merchant2/admin.mvc+

Miva Merchant Non-Secure Administration Interface (Use the Non-Secure Admin Interface when uploading your graphics.)

http://YourDomainName.com/Merchant2/admin.mvc

URL to your Miva Merchant storefront

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

Secure URL to your Miva Merchant storefront

https://YourServerName.safe-order.net/cgi-bin/smivavm?YourDomainName/Merchant2/merchant.mvc+

Additional Miva Merchant Configuration Items

Root Directory for Graphics:
/Merchant2/

Base URL for Graphics:
http://www.YourDomainName.com/Merchant2/

Secure Base URL for Graphics:
https://YourServerName.safe-order.net/YourDomainName/Merchant2/

Root Directory for Modules:
/Merchant2/

Secure Root Directory for Modules:
/YourDomainName/Merchant2/

Mail Server:
YourDomainName.com

Where to Copy (FTP) Your Graphic Image Files

Your graphic images that will be used in the Miva Merchant Shopping Cart must reside in the /www/Merchant2/graphics/ folder. You can create a subdirectory of the /graphics/ folder and copy the images there if you like. For example, if you have a graphic file called "image1.gif" located in /www/Merchant2/graphics/images_set1/, on the product setup screen, the URL for the Thumbnail Image would be graphics/images_set1/image1.gif

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