[Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

Tom Reijnders reijnders at tor.nl
Thu Apr 25 20:40:57 BST 2013


Ehmm, can I have your version of the .htacces?

I mean how does you normal preview look?

I don't understand the /xerte/preview

The difference should be the ?(.*) before the $ and the &$2 at the end.


Op 25-4-2013 20:44, Ron Mitchell schreef:
>
> 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>
>     [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>
>         [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
>         <mailto: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&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>
>                 [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
>                 <mailto: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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