V7 - Is it possible to change the acatalog folder name (for instance to "shop") so that "shop" rather than "acatalog" appears in the URL address in a browser? Thanks in advance for your help. Mark H.
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yes... and no... perhaps someone knows the magical sequence you need to hit.. but my experience is that Actinic fights you all the way...
How we accomplish it...
1. let actinic create your site
2. use unix symbolic links to create shop as a link to acatalog
3. change the settings in Advanced | Network Settings to shop instead of acatalog
Some of those settings appear to allow change, while others seem to cause problems, I'm not in front of a machine where I have a customized acatalog folder at the moment... but NOD32USA.COM uses one... when I get in front of the actinic machine I built that on I'll send more info.
Of course, if Nadeem, or anyone else can tell us how to accomplish it in a couple of quick steps, I'm all ears! This is something I asked for back when v3 launched!
hth
Greg -
Do you think this could be done with .htaccess, Greg? Some kind of rewrite or internal redirection?
By the way your 5 copy discount on NOD32USA.com produces a server error...tried to contact you via form...not working either. Hope you'd like to know.http://www.johnsons-seeds.com - Actinic plugins, remote add to cart and custom CMS
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yes - it could - but that could mess up CGI calls - I would not advise it.
Thanks for the heads up on the errors - which 5 copy discount - the Actinic user group one?
which form? The actinic contact us one?
I just checked the form in both mozilla firefox 7.02 and IE 6.02900 and they worked.. checking the discounts now...
and all this before 8AM!Comment
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grr... rs000001.cgi not found?!?
How... awww... changed from cgi to .pl... Grr.. I must have 5,000 files I have to fix - why, or why did I make that change without thinking it through!
the quick shell script to fix that:
cd cgi-bin/
ls -1 *0001.pl | while read pl
do
cgi="`echo $pl | sed 's/pl$/cgi/'`"
ln -s $pl $cgi
done
this script takes all Actinic .pl files and creates a unix symbolic link to the .pl version from the .pl it found...Comment
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I did it on this site>
http://www.shopism.net/ism/shopism/cricket-shop/
using this method: http://community.actinic.com/showpos...92&postcount=5
the folder "cricket-shop" is usually the acatalog folder
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eek! Messing with the mdb file - it's definitely a workable solution, but also it isn't ideal... but neither is the "easy" method I recommend to our clients, and this is the method I used for NOD32USA.COM
The problem related to the fact that Actinic doesn't like it's path to acatalog folder being changed NOT to include acatalog in the path - this triggers Actinic to attempt to "correct" it - which is addressed in the mdb alteration in the post by Chris Dickens...
for those that don't want to do that, my method may seem equally as awkward.
First... ssh to the machine you site is on - create a unix symbolic link from the desired folder to the acatalog folder thus:
ln -s acatalog anti-virus-software-store
Second, change the Catalog URL - ONLY in the Actinic advanced network setup - third, and finally... refresh your site...
see the attachment for details.Comment
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