I have our basic corporate static html website installed in our web root directory and our billing software installed in /portal. I have integrated the websites to look like a single site by including the /menu.tpl smarty template file in the /portal/header.tpl file. However, if I use relative URL's, the menu sysem doesnt work as the base url for the billing script is /portal. i.e. if I create a link to faq.php in the menu.tpl and I load a page on the portal site, the link in the menu back to the faq page is now /portal/faq.php whereby if I load a page off the root site the link is just /faq.php as it should be.
The obvious answer is to just use absolute URL's, but I need the site to be portable as I have many developers who need to install and test it.
I cant find anyway to resolve this. Any ideas?
I ran into the same problem as you a while ago, and after trying a lot of dead ends, I finally ended up with the following solution:
For any URL you need to be a chamelion, i.e. change its path depending on the environment, insert a PHP function that writes out the correct URL.
If you include the PHP function from a single central file, then you can change all of the URL's in the entire site automatically, based on a setting, or some pre-detected switch such as the current domain name, etc.
Example:
<?php print_base_url_plus("/menu.php"); ?>
... where print_base_url_plus() is a function which appends the base URL onto the output.
You may find that you have to change some of the URL's to be php, so they are preprocessed by the PHP engine, or, you can alter the web settings so that standard .htm files are piped through the PHP engine, just like .php files.
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I've got to transfer a website from an hoster to another (MelbourneIT).
So I've done as usual with my favorite FileZilla, just copy the html website (without DB) to the other url.
So this one work for the first page ( http://www.lmhceramics.com/) because it's an html one but all my other pages doesn't work!
I've check the folders of my website and I found that this one worked with "Smarty" who is apparently a third party application.
I tried for 5 hours different things as : create an .htaccess to launch index.php instead of index.html, change the configuration on my site_globals.php but it didn't work. It looks like only the first page : index.html is loading.
I can give the access to the ftp if anyone could help it will be sweet as it's one website of my company!
Thanks guys.
Cheers
Initially I tested whether PHP was working, then when I was sure I looked at the error log. The overriding issue was a required library not being found because of a broken path, and PHP's display_errors setting was disabled so it resulted in a white screen.
The site main pages now function.
In site_globals.php, there were two paths that begun with a forward slash. This results in the code looking in the root directory of the server for a particular folder of files (the Smarty library, and the Smarty templates), which likely worked on the old server but not on the new shared hosting environment. New code italicised:
define( "SMARTYPATH", _$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ._ "/deldridge_smarty/" );
define( "TEMPLATEPATH", _$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ._ '/smarty/' );
Once that was fixed the code library and templates could be loaded and the rest of the configuration file continued to load. It then dies on:
$db_interface = new DBInterface;
$db_interface->connect( '172.20.254.1' , 'ampnet', 'cable05' );
This is an attempt to connect to a database. I haven't investigated what the database was for yet (that'd require looking through the PHP files in depth) but I'm assuming it was the login system or some such. Almost all of the pages in the site function with those two lines commented out, which I've done for now so that the majority of the content is available again. There's another reference to database connection details further down but they were already commented out.
One other area of particular interest is this:
// different dir structure on secure domain, make ammends
// ensure trailing slash if directory present
define( "SECURE_DIR", 'buildersbollards/' );
if ( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] == '/home/deldridge/secure.4mation.com.au' )
{
$site_path = '/' . SECURE_DIR;
}
Hop that helps!
It's difficult to know with so little information. Enable error reporting in php or just look at the php error log in your server. One probable cause for the error 500 may be that some key folders don't have CHMOD permission to write; In smarty, for example, templates_c must be writable
Reason for Problem:
I'm working on a website and wanted to work on it without making edits to the live website. My hosting package allows for "infinite" domains. So instead of editing the live website I create a new domain, without purchasing the domain name and am trying to develop with this new domain.
Issue At Hand:
This issue is that the reference file paths don't work anymore and return 404 when trying to load the webpage. My original website directory structure looks like this
cgi-bin
config
public_html
->JSfiles
->CSSfiles
->PHPfiles
The new one is the same structure however when you open the "temporary web address" the URL looks like this
http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/"
instead of
http://myTempAddress.com/
so when my index.html file looks for /JSfiles/someJSfile.js its requesting
http://217.199.187.199/JSfiles/someJSfile.js
when it needs to be requesting
http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/JSfiles/someJSfile.js
Things I've Tried Unsuccessfully:
I would really like to fix this by redirecting with the .htaccess file in the root directory on the server. Ive tried using the following directives with no success.
Redirect /217.199.187.199/JSfiles/mustache.min.js http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/JSfiles/mustache.min.js
Redirect /JSfiles http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/JSfiles/
Redirect /JSfiles http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/
Redirect /JSfiles 217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/
Question:
How can I redirect the requests to the right location? I need all the the requests to be of the form http://217.199.187.199/myTempAddress.com/someDir/Somefile.ex
You need to read up a bit more on Virtual Hosting in particular name based virtual hosting.
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/vhosts/name-based.html
It sounds like your provider might support name based VHosts but what you're trying to do is not taking advantage of that. To do what you want ie have path that points to a different version of your site is best achieved using mod_rewrite. See this
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/remapping.html
You need to make sure that your provided actually supports this.
Is there anyway to have a bunch of iframes on one html page that link to several different text files located elsewhere on the server?
For example, if my apache server hosts its HTML pages in:
C:\Apache\WebDocs,
Is there anyway to link several different log files from different locations like" C:\game1\logs\log.txt and C:\GameServer\logs\console.txt all into one webpage using iframes?
I suggest you create shortcuts to your current apache document root and give apache user read permission to the original file. Personally, I haven't tested this on a windows machine. Otherwise, you can use Alias directive.
Alias /log1 C:\game1\logs\
and you can call the url as http://localhost/log1/
That should help as well.
How do I customize the list that web server does in absence of index.* file in the web root or its child directory, if we do not put any index files in the web root directory and the directory has the read permission?
you can set the page to show for a directory url with the index directive, it doesn't need to point to something called index.*, might just as well be whatever.html. See http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_index_module.html#index for details
or you can set autoindex on to give a generated file/directory listing, you can use the autoindex_exact_size and autoindex_localtime to further customize that listing. See http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_autoindex_module.html for details
3th option, if your nginx is compiled with it, is the random_index, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_random_index_module.html for details.
NOTE: to find out if your nginx is compiled with the needed --with-http_random_index_module option use the command nginx -V
Well, it depends on what webserver you are using.
In case of Apache, direcory indexes handled by a module called mod_autoindex.
When you want to customize the directory listing, then you have to know that Apache need three 'view' files:
The Header — by default automatically generated by Apache The
Directory Listing — necessarily generated by Apache
The Footer — referred to as the “Readme” file
The Header and Footer parts are basically written in plain HTML. The directory listing is generated by Apache but you can apply CSS on it..
The whole thing is a rather long story, so what I can suggest is a well written article with the details about this 'directory listing customisation':
Better Default Directory Views with .htaccess
I have a website on SiteFinity 4.4. I need to make a document available on a very specific URL, i.e.
http:www.example.com/reports/the-report.pdf
If I just create a directory in the root of the site it does not work (503 error). Also when I try to use the 302Redirect.xml file to redirect the URL to the PDF it does not work either (same error). The link has already been published and has to be exactly as specified. How do I solve this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sitefinity wouldn't block a folder. Adding a physical folder and dropping that report on the proper place should function, so it probably means you'll have to check your server configuration.
Anyway, the fastest way outside Sitefinity, would be to just create a IIS rewrite rule. Make the http:/www.example.com/reports/the-report.pdf the pattern and redirect them to the url of the document from the sitefinity library.
When you upload a document to the library in sitefinity it gives you an direct url, something like /docs/defaultlibrary/document. You can verify the url by going to content >> documents and files and chose Embed link to this file. That gives you a pop-up with the url.