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[Slashcode-general] Plugin compatibility with Fry

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

Hi,

Just wondering if plugins will move easily to Fry, or if there will need to 
be a rewrite or at least a few changes?

Thanks

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[Slashcode-general] live site database dump.

[Min Xu <mx...@ca...>]

Hi there,
  Can anybody give me a live slashcode 2.0 database dump
for slashcode 2.0 site? I am current involved in the research
of multiprocessor system design. We have built a dynamic
website workload based on slashcode 2.0. A driver simulating
the users activities is written and we can certianly fill
the website with this driver. However it is time consuming
and not real enough. So it will be great if somebody can
give me a live snapshot of their database for this study.

  Please help. We are designing machines to make your program
run faster!

Thanks in advance!

-Min

Re: [Slashcode-general] Template Lag Time / Behavior

[LT V. H. W. <wa...@us...>]

Jason Huckaby wrote:

>I'm getting unexpected behavior from new and altered templates.  
>The latest happenings are very strange.  I created new templates 
>specific to a section (in this case a new dispStory and new 
>display for a specific section).
>
>I can view the "correct" templates in one browser, but the other 
>browser displays the "default" ones (same computer, same time, 
>diff. browsers).  Why is that?
>
>Also (less strange), there appears to be a lag time between the time 
>I create a new template - and the time it actually starts appearing.
>
>Any thoughts on how to speed the "update" process along?  It's hard to 
>develop new sections when you get unpredictable results.
>
This is due to caching.  You can either restart apache whenever you make 
big changes or turn caching off for slash (somewhere in variables).  

Good Luck,
Vann



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[Slashcode-general] Template Lag Time / Behavior

[Jason H. <ja...@ne...>]

I'm getting unexpected behavior from new and altered templates.  
The latest happenings are very strange.  I created new templates 
specific to a section (in this case a new dispStory and new 
display for a specific section).

I can view the "correct" templates in one browser, but the other 
browser displays the "default" ones (same computer, same time, 
diff. browsers).  Why is that?

Also (less strange), there appears to be a lag time between the time 
I create a new template - and the time it actually starts appearing.

Any thoughts on how to speed the "update" process along?  It's hard to 
develop new sections when you get unpredictable results.


Thanks,
-jh

[Slashcode-general] Section Templates

[Ralf R. K. <rr...@jo...>]

HI,

So in order to create a new Section you also duplicate the 
corresponding templates you wish to customize under the new 
sections, I got that much.

However does it work with ALL templates? like the userlogin, home 
page customization, slashbox selection, etc?

Thanx

RRK

Re: [Slashcode-general] Fancybox || not to Fancbox

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

> This line of code is causing problems:
> 
> [% IF story.title == 'foo' ||  IF story.extras.grandparent.title ==
> 'foo' %]
> 
> The "or" statement causes problems in a template.. wonder why?  Does
> it not eval the right %] ?
What does your error log say?
	-Brian
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[Slashcode-general] Fancybox || not to Fancbox

[Jason H. <ja...@ne...>]

FYI

This line of code is causing problems:

[% IF story.title == 'foo' ||  IF story.extras.grandparent.title ==
'foo' %]

The "or" statement causes problems in a template.. wonder why?  Does
it not eval the right %] ?


-jh

[Slashcode-general] search.pl

[Brent M. <br...@me...>]

I'm running Slash 2.0.  When I use search.pl, it won't show more than 30
results.  Why doesn't the "<Last 30 matches | Next 30 matches>" show up?

--Brent
http://www.purdueonline.com/

[Slashcode-general] Fancybox - Including Templates

[Jason H. <ja...@ne...>]

Glad to hear about the fancybox fix.  I've encountered the problem on
the index page you spoke of.

Still having problems.  This is very strange.  I'm going nuts, this 
does not seem to make sense.

I have two templates:

Acadia_Menu
Guide_Menu

They both contain text only.

I call them from the display template using the code at bottom.  
Acadia_Menu appears in a fancybox just fine, but Guide_Menu does not
(just appears as an empty box).

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?


> [%
>         contents = BLOCK;
>                 INCLUDE Guide_Menu;
> 
>         END;
>         INCLUDE fancybox
>                 title           = "Area Menu"
>                 contents        = contents
>                 center          = 1;
> %]

-jh

Re: [Slashcode-general] Fancybox - Including Templates

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

Jason Huckaby wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to play around with the fancybox, and create new
> fancyboxes.
> 
> Can a template included in a fancybox have logic evaluated?  For
> instance, the included template has if / else statements.. will they
> be evaled?
Yes, I have in my personal libraries a method that allows you to
call a subroutine which takes the output of a template and inserts
it into a fancybox. 
Before fry ships it will be included (solves the nasty problem
of the boxes on the left hand side of the page not being
really in fancyboxes).
	-Brian
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[Slashcode-general] Fancybox - Including Templates

[Jason H. <ja...@ne...>]

I'm trying to play around with the fancybox, and create new 
fancyboxes.

Can a template included in a fancybox have logic evaluated?  For 
instance, the included template has if / else statements.. will they 
be evaled?

This is the basic code I've been playing with:

[%
	contents = BLOCK;
		INCLUDE guidemenu;
			
	END;
	INCLUDE fancybox
		title		= "Area Menu"
		contents	= contents
		center		= 1;
%]


Thanks..

jh

Re: [Slashcode-general] file upload

[Rodney H. <ro...@ac...>]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Xiaowu Gai wrote:

> Hi Rod:
>
> Yes, I am using 2.0. Sorry I forgot to mention this. I actually noticed
> that the default httpd.conf does not have an entry like LimitQuestBody,
> which is added in slash.conf, though. Is there any reason why slash does
> this. I placed my script in the original apache cgi-bin and it worked fine
> for read and returning smaller files, but failed when I tried with a big
> file. That is how I noticed the LimitRequestBody thing. I commented out the
> entry in the slash.conf file and it worked just fine. I am bit nervous,
> though, since I knows slash must do this for a reason.
>
> Again, thank you for your help.
>

Xiaowu,

Yeah, that was exactly the same behavior that we saw.  As for why slash
sets it?  I haven't asked CmdrTaco, et al, but I suspect they set it
because leaving that max request open is a nice recipe for a denial of
service attack.  Think of it this way, if there is no limit, then someone
could just start sending *huge* requests to your server that would
eventually cause it to crash.  On my setup, I just kind of took an
educated guess at what I thought the max file size would be, based on
the type of files we were accepting, and then set the LimitRequestBody
slightly higher than my expectations.

It's worked pretty well so far...

-Rod Heyd

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Re: [Slashcode-general] file upload

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

Rodney Heyd wrote:
> Well first off, which version of slash are you using?  We modified
There is a patch acs did for this (works on version 2.0 I 
believe, look at SF).

I am hoping to put this in 2.2 before we ship it.

	-Brian

Re: [Slashcode-general] file upload

[Xiaowu G. <xg...@ia...>]

Hi Rod:

Yes, I am using 2.0. Sorry I forgot to mention this. I actually noticed 
that the default httpd.conf does not have an entry like LimitQuestBody, 
which is added in slash.conf, though. Is there any reason why slash does 
this. I placed my script in the original apache cgi-bin and it worked fine 
for read and returning smaller files, but failed when I tried with a big 
file. That is how I noticed the LimitRequestBody thing. I commented out the 
entry in the slash.conf file and it worked just fine. I am bit nervous, 
though, since I knows slash must do this for a reason.

Again, thank you for your help.

Xiaowu

At 01:03 PM 8/10/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Xiaowu Gai wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > I am writing a script that has to use fileupload. I had slashcode installed
> > on my machine. The script works if I place on a different machine (same as
> > mine except does not have slashcode installed). However, when I tried to
> > run the same script from my machine under the slash htdocs directory where
> > the other slash scripts are placed. I could not make it to work. It won't
> > be able to read the file that I upload. Does anyone has a clue as to what
> > can be wrong and how I can fix it. Thank you.
> >
>
>Well first off, which version of slash are you using?  We modified
>the version 1.x version submit.pl to handle file uploads, and we had
>several problems getting it working, mostly because there is are several
>places where limits are placed on the size of an incoming request.
>
>Ultimately what it came down to was an apache directive, LimitRequestBody,
>which needed to be set appropriately in httpd.conf to accept files of the
>correct size.  If you're using slash 2.0, all bets are off, as we haven't
>ported all of stuff to slash 2.0 yet, but it's possible that it's the same
>problem.
>
>-Rod
>
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Xiaowu Gai, PhD
Associate Scientist
L. H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-7624
Email: xg...@ia...

Re: [Slashcode-general] file upload

[Rodney H. <ro...@ac...>]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Xiaowu Gai wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> I am writing a script that has to use fileupload. I had slashcode installed
> on my machine. The script works if I place on a different machine (same as
> mine except does not have slashcode installed). However, when I tried to
> run the same script from my machine under the slash htdocs directory where
> the other slash scripts are placed. I could not make it to work. It won't
> be able to read the file that I upload. Does anyone has a clue as to what
> can be wrong and how I can fix it. Thank you.
>

Well first off, which version of slash are you using?  We modified
the version 1.x version submit.pl to handle file uploads, and we had
several problems getting it working, mostly because there is are several
places where limits are placed on the size of an incoming request.

Ultimately what it came down to was an apache directive, LimitRequestBody,
which needed to be set appropriately in httpd.conf to accept files of the
correct size.  If you're using slash 2.0, all bets are off, as we haven't
ported all of stuff to slash 2.0 yet, but it's possible that it's the same
problem.

-Rod

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|Web and System Administrator    |Dept. of Physics and Astronomy |
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|he...@as...                    |PHONE: (480) 727-6291          |
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[Slashcode-general] file upload

[Xiaowu G. <xg...@ia...>]

Hi everyone:

I am writing a script that has to use fileupload. I had slashcode installed 
on my machine. The script works if I place on a different machine (same as 
mine except does not have slashcode installed). However, when I tried to 
run the same script from my machine under the slash htdocs directory where 
the other slash scripts are placed. I could not make it to work. It won't 
be able to read the file that I upload. Does anyone has a clue as to what 
can be wrong and how I can fix it. Thank you.

Xiaowu Gai, PhD
Associate Scientist
L. H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-7624
Email: xg...@ia...

[Slashcode-general] segmentation fault in httpd with slash 2.0

[Guy B. <gu...@su...>]

So I installed the latest slash-2.0.0 on my apache 1.3.19
server. Set up the httpd.conf to Include the slash.conf.
I noticed and found it very peculiar that the latter
contains no "PerlModule Slash::Apache" statement. How on 
earth is this supposed to work? Or are we just supposed to
know to include this line ourselves?

Anyways, it seems to start up ok. Slash connects to mysql
and there's no evident problems. But try to load any
webpage in the DocumentRoot, and my httpd dies with a 
segmentation fault, signal 11. Waaaaah!

It's real hard to know where to go with this, as there's
no further info in the logs. I added some print statements
to index.pl that I output to a tmp file, to see if the
thing runs, and if it bombs out at any point. It runs.
It gets all the way to the end of &main just fine. (It
just doesn't display anything, because httpd bombs out.)

This seems somewhat similar to a problem reported about
a month ago by ben h kram in his post:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/9539/2001/7/100/6083806/
(But there were no followups to his post.)

I'm hoping against hope someone might have some fruitful 
suggestions for me. My configuration is very plain, vanilla,
RedHat 7.1, running on a Pentium. (The only thing perhaps 
unusual is the small amount of physical memory on the 
machine, only 32M. I was getting "Out of memory" errors
from the kernel, killing mysqld. I fixed them by adding
more swap. I'll be setting up a machine with more memory
shortly, but I thought I could get things up and running
on this old box first.)

Guy

Re: [Slashcode-general] About Moderation capabilities for users

[Markus A. <mar...@ub...>]

ni...@no... wrote:
> We have been running a slashsite (based on slashcode 1.0.0.1) for sever=
al
> months smoothly (from may '00 actually). We also twicked and adjusted
> everything to suite our needs and everything is going fine
> (http://www.fondi.it).
> We have already passed the 1000 comments treshold, but still our users =
-
> wich posted a lot and have a high karma - can't get moderation
> capabilities. Only admins seems to have them.
> Is there something I should know to activate that feature [moderation
> capabilities for active users], or do I have to tweak the code in some =
point ?
>=20
> Any clue will be greatly appreciated.

Only the first 3% (configurable) of all users can moderate. If you have
the 6 default users plus 4 admins with uid < 10 this means that you have
to have more than 300 registered users. There was a posting on slashcode
(or was it an email in one the lists?) which explained pretty well some
of these params in the config file (for 1.0.9 though).

Markus.

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[Slashcode-general] Displaying the current time in the users TZ

[Cyber L. <cl...@xg...>]

Is there a variable I can use in a page that will be replaced with the 
current time in the users time zone?                               
  

Re: [Slashcode-general] Installing plugins

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

> Hey, great to hear that. The plugin need some work to be done but I
> think that it is a good start. If you need more functionality or
> changes, please send and email to me so we can coordiante the
> development.

Well it seems to work OK but I haven't tested it extensively.  I'll let you 
know if I need to make a change.

Thanks!

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Re: [Slashcode-general] Installing plugins

[Alvaro d. C. <ac...@ba...>]

El d_ 29 Jul 2001 18:14:10 -0400, Micah Yoder escribi_
> Hi,
> 
> I want to install the Jobs plugin for travtalk so that people around the 
> world that might want to temporarily hire a traveler could post it there. :-)

Hey, great to hear that. The plugin need some work to be done but I
think that it is a good start. If you need more functionality or
changes, please send and email to me so we can coordiante the
development.

Cheers

-- Alvaro

> 
> Is there a documented way to install plugins into running sites that I'm 
> missing?
> 
> Or do I have to (psuedocode):
> 
> 1. mysql < mysql_schema.sql
> 2. template-tool (install) templates
> 3. copy Jobs.pl to the site htdocs (or symlink it to plugins/jobs)
> 4. copy Jobs.pm to the same directory as Slash::Utils and the others
> 
> Thanks for any pointers,
> Micah
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Re: [Slashcode-general] Installing plugins

[barry <sla...@i1...>]

At 09:19 PM 7/29/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> > Restart Apache, slashd, all of the above, or reboot the whole machine?
>
>restarting Apache did it for me.
>
>If you had to reboot, something would be seriously wrong!


I threw that in for completeness :)

barry

Re: [Slashcode-general] Installing plugins

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

On Sunday 29 July 2001 23:28, you wrote:
> At 06:42 PM 7/29/2001 -0700, Brian Aker wrote:
> >Untar plugin into /usr/local/slash/plugins
> >perl Makefile.pl in the directory.

and
make
make install
!!!

> >Run install-plugin, restart.
>
> Restart Apache, slashd, all of the above, or reboot the whole machine?

restarting Apache did it for me.

If you had to reboot, something would be seriously wrong!

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Re: [Slashcode-general] Installing plugins

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

barry wrote:
> 
> At 06:42 PM 7/29/2001 -0700, Brian Aker wrote:
> >Untar plugin into /usr/local/slash/plugins
> >perl Makefile.pl in the directory.
> >Run install-plugin, restart.
> 
> Restart Apache, slashd, all of the above, or reboot the whole machine?
Just apache.
	-Brian

Re: [Slashcode-general] Installing plugins

[barry <sla...@i1...>]

At 06:42 PM 7/29/2001 -0700, Brian Aker wrote:
>Untar plugin into /usr/local/slash/plugins
>perl Makefile.pl in the directory.
>Run install-plugin, restart.


Restart Apache, slashd, all of the above, or reboot the whole machine?

barry