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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>rewriteRule ^preview_([A-Za-z0-9]+)?(.*)$ */preview.php?template_id=$1&$2 worked for Ctrl + Play preview although I obviously had to change it to /xerte/preview.php rather than */preview.php<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I tried applying the same principal to one of the export rules but that didn't work - probably due to my lack of knowledge of regular expressions etc :-(<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Happy to test export additions?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I think ideally we need a definitive \setup\htaccess.conf for people to use for reference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ron<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Reijnders<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 April 2013 10:11<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>No, the wizard tries to load preview.php and play.php, but it doesn't add any sizes to the url, like the xerte play and preview do.<br><br><br>The issue with .htaccess and xerte preview is that now you can have url parameters added to the .htaccess urls, like play_126?engine=other, and the rules don't handle the ?engine=other properly. I sent a fix for Ron to try by PM, because I couldn't send anything to the list for some 30 minutes.<br><br><br>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Op 25-4-2013 11:03, Julian Tenney schreef:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OK. Does it impact the re-write rule? At this point I’d rather just make it work, than be graceful… what I think it means is that for bootstrap tempaltes, the url the wizard tries to load will be preview_site.php and play_site.php? I’m not sure if it affects what you’re talking about or not?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Reijnders<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 April 2013 10:01<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I didn't change it (combine preview of site and xerte) because the url parameters were different, and I felt we hadn't time to test changes thoroughly enough, so at the moment I only changed the absolute minimum.<br><br>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Op 25-4-2013 10:09, Julian Tenney schreef:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>In the wizard (I think you mean) is code that launches the site template that does something along the lines of (if template.runtime = ‘preview_site.php’) blah which launches the site template in the preview_site page. If you remember, way back when, when we originally anticipated different runtimes, we had a runtime param in the xwd file to point to alternative renderers for content. If you want to look it’s in function preview()</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I would have thought that when the recent modularisation stuff was done, this might have been made redundant, or handled differently, and maybe this code should change? But I don’t have enough sight of the other side of the coin to know how?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Pat @ Pgogy <br><b>Sent:</b> 24 April 2013 20:35<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Looks like something is up in the engine as well?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 24 Apr 2013, at 19:41, Tom Reijnders <<a href="mailto:reijnders@tor.nl">reijnders@tor.nl</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ah ok. olet me work on the rewriteRule, because it doesn't allow for extra parameters now......<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Op 24-4-2013 18:11, Ron Mitchell schreef:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Just been testing this a bit more and for instance with the editor open clicking play to preview works fine with Apache/.htaccess enabled or not but clicking Ctrl + Play with Apache/.htaccess enabled results in <a href="http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/preview_310&engine=other">http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/preview_310&engine=other</a> and so doesn't work ends up with a page not found</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>What needs to change or be added to the .htaccess?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>e.g.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>rewriteRule ^preview_([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ /xerte/preview.php?template_id=$1</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I think it's a similar problem for the export links.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I think this is an important issue for those using .htaccess previously (e.g. Nottingham) because if Apache was switched off via management existing links would obviously break. But at the moment with Apache enabled I don't think export and Ctrl + Play works.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HTH</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cheers</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ron</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Pat @ Pgogy<br><b>Sent:</b> 22 April 2013 20:05<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nothing I've done alters the rules I think<br><br>Pgogy Webstuff - <a href="http://www.pgogywebstuff.com">http://www.pgogywebstuff.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Makers of web things of a fair to middling quality<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 22 Apr 2013, at 18:29, "Ron Mitchell" <<a href="mailto:ronm@mitchellmedia.co.uk">ronm@mitchellmedia.co.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>has anyone updated the .htaccess rules for the latest version?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have three different installations on the Techdis server that I've upgraded now and only just noticed that export doesn't work on the installation using .htaccess whereas it did previously so I'm guessing some of the export rules need amending. Anyone tried this yet and/or updated the rules?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ron <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"'><br><br><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>Xerte-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"'><br><br><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Xerte-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>--<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Tom Reijnders<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>TOR Informatica<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Chopinlaan 27<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>5242HM Rosmalen<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Tel: 073 5226191<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Fax: 073 5226196<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>Xerte-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"'><br><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Xerte-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman , serif","serif"'><br><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>--<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Tom Reijnders<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>TOR Informatica<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Chopinlaan 27<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>5242HM Rosmalen<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Tel: 073 5226191<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Fax: 073 5226196<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Xerte-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>--<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Tom Reijnders<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>TOR Informatica<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Chopinlaan 27<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>5242HM Rosmalen<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Tel: 073 5226191<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Fax: 073 5226196<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>