[Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

Thu Apr 25 19:44:51 BST 2013

Hi Tom

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

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 :-(

Happy to test export additions?

I think ideally we need a definitive \setup\htaccess.conf for people to use
for reference.

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 25 April 2013 10:11
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

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.

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.

Tom

Op 25-4-2013 11:03, Julian Tenney schreef:

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?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 25 April 2013 10:01
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

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.

Tom

Op 25-4-2013 10:09, Julian Tenney schreef:

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()

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?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy 
Sent: 24 April 2013 20:35
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

Looks like something is up in the engine as well?

On 24 Apr 2013, at 19:41, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:

Ah ok. olet me work on the rewriteRule, because it doesn't allow for extra
parameters now......

Op 24-4-2013 18:11, Ron Mitchell schreef:

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
http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/preview_310
<http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/preview_310&engine=other> &engine=other
and so doesn't work ends up with a page not found

What needs to change or be added to the .htaccess?

e.g.

rewriteRule ^preview_([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ /xerte/preview.php?template_id=$1

I think it's a similar problem for the export links.

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.

HTH

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy
Sent: 22 April 2013 20:05
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

Nothing I've done alters the rules I think

Pgogy Webstuff - http://www.pgogywebstuff.com

Makers of web things of a fair to middling quality

On 22 Apr 2013, at 18:29, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:

Hi

has anyone updated the .htaccess rules for the latest version?

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?

Cheers

Ron 

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