If you see this logo in your control panel, the your account is equipped with access to Miva Engine from Miva Corporation. We implement the Miva Empresa edition of Miva Engine, which is specifically designed for hosting services and enterprises. This product is powered by Miva Script, an XML based scripting language which lets you activate your web pages with database, commerce, and dynamic logic. The latest version is 4.1.

The following is some basic information on how to take advantage of the Miva capabilities on your web site:

Miva Script files have a .mv extension. When our web server sees the .mv extension it will automatically run Miva Empresa and interpret your Miva Script documents.

Be sure to place all Miva Script documents in your web publishing directory and access them in the same way as you would HTML documents.

Data files are in a special directory called "mivadata" which is found in your home directory. Whenever you access a database or other data files in your Miva Script application, the mivadata directory is used as the root directory for these data files. For example, a reference to a file called /mydata.dbf inside of a Miva Script will be translated to /mivadata/mydata.dbf when executed. This separation of script files and data files is essential for your web site security because it keeps data files away from the public domain of the web server.

Complete free documentation is available directly from Miva Corp.

Free users group support is also available directly from Miva Corp. via a list server. Miva employs full time staff members to monitor this list server and make sure that all questions get answered.

Microsoft Windows 95/98 users can download a free personal developers edition of the Miva Engine called Miva Mia.

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