The OpenACS E-Commerce Solution
By Rafael A. Calvo, February 10, 2003
The Open Directory Project (http://www.dmoz.org/) lists more than 200 shopping cart/e-commerce software packages, and more than 20 of these are open source, including Red Hat's Interchange (formerly Minivend), and others familiar to the IT community. So why highlight the Open Architecture Community System (OpenACS) and its e-commerce package?
Listing 1 Server configuration file excerpts
set httpport 80 your regular IP port
set httpsport 443 your secure IP port
set hostname www.mystore.com your site's url
set address 0.0.0.0 your site's IP address
set server "mystore" the site name we decided
set db_name $server
set servername "My E-Commerce store" the site name visitors see
set serverroot "/web/${server}" the location of the site files
set sslkeyfile ${homedir}/servers/${server}/modules/nsssl/keyfile.pem
set sslcertfile ${homedir}/servers/${server}/modules/nsssl/certfile.pem
the location of your ssl certificates
