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Re: [Slashcode-general] slash 2.0

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

I think there is a script in the utils directory that will convert old slash
1.0.x .shtml files back to stories in the database

Brent Meshier wrote:

> The new slash 2.0 doesn't archive stories into .shtml, so are old stories
> lost FOREVER?  I don't understand.  Ever since I upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0,
> stories on my site are dropping like flys.  This can't possibly be true!?
>
> --Brent
>
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Re: [Slashcode-general] slash 2.0

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

Brent Meshier wrote:
> 
> The new slash 2.0 doesn't archive stories into .shtml, so are old stories
> lost FOREVER?  I don't understand.  Ever since I upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0,
> stories on my site are dropping like flys.  This can't possibly be true!?
They just stay in the database. I'm not sure why you stories
would be going away.
	-Brian
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[Slashcode-general] slash 2.0

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

The new slash 2.0 doesn't archive stories into .shtml, so are old stories
lost FOREVER?  I don't understand.  Ever since I upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0,
stories on my site are dropping like flys.  This can't possibly be true!?

--Brent

Re: [Slashcode-general] 3 days I have been trying to install the

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

WOW! It worked.. I took your advice and looked into the httpd.conf I had
the slash.conf at the bottom of the file and the site.conf at the top..
I fliped there location and it worked.. Now it is all down to cosmetic
setup..


Thanks for the help

cl...@xg...

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 sla...@li... wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:54:17 -0700
> From: Eric Dannewitz <eri...@ja...>
> Organization: Jazz-Sax
> To: sla...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Slashcode-general] 3 days I have been trying to install the 

>  slashcode and still nothing.
> Reply-To: sla...@li...
> 
> Sounds like your Apache config got messed
> 
> My config doesn't have that SlashVirtualUser as far down, it's around line
> 12, but it should say something like:
> SlashVirtualUser slash
> 
> 
> 
> Cyber Link wrote:
> 
> > Ok I have been at this for 3 days and need a little help getting this to
> > work!
> >
> > I am getting the following error when trying to start httpd.
> >
> > Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 22 of
> > /home/cl/temp2/slash-2.0.0/site/www.xganon.org/www.xganon.org.conf:
> > Invalid command 'SlashVirtualUser', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a
> > module not included in the server configuration
> >
> > I have read the instructions , re-read the instructions , read them for a
> > 3rd time, and then wiped out perl, apache, php, mysql, mod_ssl and, the
> > slashcode, Followed by a re-download and install following the
> > instructions. Still the error is there. I then went and did a search
> > through the Bug Tracker and found some one else with the problem who was
> > told to re-read the instructions. Can some one please help me get this
> > running? What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Just a note if it is helpfull..
> >
> > cpan> install Bundle::Slash
> > Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> > CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
> > Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> > Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
> > URI is up to date.
> > Net::FTP is up to date.
> > MIME::Base64 is up to date.
> > Digest::MD5 is up to date.
> > HTML::Tagset is up to date.
> > HTML::Parser is up to date.
> > HTML::HeadParser is up to date.
> > LWP is up to date.
> > Getopt::Long is up to date.
> > DBI is up to date.
> > DBI::FAQ is up to date.
> > DBI is up to date.
> > Data::ShowTable is up to date.
> > Mysql is up to date.
> > DBD::mysql is up to date.
> > Date::Parse is up to date.
> > XML::Parser is up to date.
> > XML::RSS is up to date.
> > Date::Manip is up to date.
> > Mail::Sendmail is up to date.
> > Apache::DBI is up to date.
> > Apache::Cookie is up to date.
> > Image::Size is up to date.
> > Template is up to date.
> >
> > cpan>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Slashcode-general mailing list
> > Sla...@li...
> > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/slashcode-general
> 
> --
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> 
> Eric Dannewitz - Adventurer, saxophonist, good-timer (crook? quite possibly),
> clarinetist, manic self-publicist,
> part-time flautist(flutist?), macintosher, and often thought to be completely
> out to lunch. http://www.jazz-sax.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[Slashcode-general] Multiple Slash Servers

[Martin, J. S. <Jam...@di...>]

Currently I have the Slash 2.0 database setup on a Linux box, and 2 Solaris
boxes trying to act as the web servers pulling the slash database.  Let's
call the the first slash server slash1, and the other slash2.  Well almost
all is fine and dandy.  Slash1 connects and pulls data remotely with no
problem.  I rsynched the /usr/local/slash dir to the second machine, made
the necessary configuration changes(I think)  and setup the necessary perl
modules and it pulls the data--but all the links from the main page point
back to slash1.  I know this has something to do with the absolutedir and
rootdir variables in the database, both of which are set to slash1's
hostname.  How is it possible then to have to webservers sharing the same
database if they are pulling a static absolute and root dir from a database?
I'd like to be able to hit the database with either machine and each machine
processing it's on perl scripts.

Thanks,

James

[Slashcode-general] Plain old text story submissions?

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

I can't determine how to allow a choice for plain text OR html story 
postings.  Can I put the same drop-down on the story submit form, that 
I see when posting at Slashcode?

Thanks.
-jh

Re: [Slashcode-general] 3 days I have been trying to install the slashcode and still nothing.

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

Sounds like your Apache config got messed

My config doesn't have that SlashVirtualUser as far down, it's around line
12, but it should say something like:
SlashVirtualUser slash



Cyber Link wrote:

> Ok I have been at this for 3 days and need a little help getting this to
> work!
>
> I am getting the following error when trying to start httpd.
>
> Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 22 of
> /home/cl/temp2/slash-2.0.0/site/www.xganon.org/www.xganon.org.conf:
> Invalid command 'SlashVirtualUser', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a
> module not included in the server configuration
>
> I have read the instructions , re-read the instructions , read them for a
> 3rd time, and then wiped out perl, apache, php, mysql, mod_ssl and, the
> slashcode, Followed by a re-download and install following the
> instructions. Still the error is there. I then went and did a search
> through the Bug Tracker and found some one else with the problem who was
> told to re-read the instructions. Can some one please help me get this
> running? What am I doing wrong?
>
> Just a note if it is helpfull..
>
> cpan> install Bundle::Slash
> Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
> Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
> URI is up to date.
> Net::FTP is up to date.
> MIME::Base64 is up to date.
> Digest::MD5 is up to date.
> HTML::Tagset is up to date.
> HTML::Parser is up to date.
> HTML::HeadParser is up to date.
> LWP is up to date.
> Getopt::Long is up to date.
> DBI is up to date.
> DBI::FAQ is up to date.
> DBI is up to date.
> Data::ShowTable is up to date.
> Mysql is up to date.
> DBD::mysql is up to date.
> Date::Parse is up to date.
> XML::Parser is up to date.
> XML::RSS is up to date.
> Date::Manip is up to date.
> Mail::Sendmail is up to date.
> Apache::DBI is up to date.
> Apache::Cookie is up to date.
> Image::Size is up to date.
> Template is up to date.
>
> cpan>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Slashcode-general mailing list
> Sla...@li...
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/slashcode-general

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Eric Dannewitz - Adventurer, saxophonist, good-timer (crook? quite possibly),
clarinetist, manic self-publicist,
part-time flautist(flutist?), macintosher, and often thought to be completely
out to lunch. http://www.jazz-sax.com

[Slashcode-general] 3 days I have been trying to install the slashcode and still nothing.

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

Ok I have been at this for 3 days and need a little help getting this to
work!

I am getting the following error when trying to start httpd.

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 22 of
/home/cl/temp2/slash-2.0.0/site/www.xganon.org/www.xganon.org.conf:
Invalid command 'SlashVirtualUser', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a
module not included in the server configuration

I have read the instructions , re-read the instructions , read them for a
3rd time, and then wiped out perl, apache, php, mysql, mod_ssl and, the
slashcode, Followed by a re-download and install following the
instructions. Still the error is there. I then went and did a search
through the Bug Tracker and found some one else with the problem who was
told to re-read the instructions. Can some one please help me get this
running? What am I doing wrong?

Just a note if it is helpfull..

cpan> install Bundle::Slash 
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
URI is up to date.
Net::FTP is up to date.
MIME::Base64 is up to date.
Digest::MD5 is up to date.
HTML::Tagset is up to date.
HTML::Parser is up to date.
HTML::HeadParser is up to date.
LWP is up to date.
Getopt::Long is up to date.
DBI is up to date.
DBI::FAQ is up to date.
DBI is up to date.
Data::ShowTable is up to date.
Mysql is up to date.
DBD::mysql is up to date.
Date::Parse is up to date.
XML::Parser is up to date.
XML::RSS is up to date.
Date::Manip is up to date.
Mail::Sendmail is up to date.
Apache::DBI is up to date.
Apache::Cookie is up to date.
Image::Size is up to date.
Template is up to date.

cpan> 

Re: [Slashcode-general] Headline Email made easy?

[Nomad M. L. <er...@no...>]

to switch it on just alter the database. [i am not sure offhand which
table or field it is]. change the value for any users already in the db
and then set the default value so any new users automatically have it
turned on..


--to change the default value--

ALTER TABLE name_of_table ALTER COLUMN columnname
SET DEFAULT value_or_"string";


--eric

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Alex McLintock wrote:

>
> Hi folks,
>
> I am wondering about the easiest way to subscribe people to the daily
> headline emailer.
>
> I want to have a box on the homepage for people to enter their email
> address and thus to get news of new articles on the site.
>
> I guess I have to turn that into a "new user" submission form -
> but then how do I chose a username (let the user decide?) and how
> do I automatically switch on the "email daily headlines"?
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex

[Slashcode-general] Headline Email made easy?

[<al...@ya...>]

Hi folks, 

I am wondering about the easiest way to subscribe people to the daily
headline emailer. 

I want to have a box on the homepage for people to enter their email 
address and thus to get news of new articles on the site. 

I guess I have to turn that into a "new user" submission form - 
but then how do I chose a username (let the user decide?) and how
do I automatically switch on the "email daily headlines"?

Cheers

Alex


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[Slashcode-general] Cough cough ... terribly sorry for the dupe ... I'm a moron. Full stop.

[Nicola P. <ni...@no...>]

Hit send again and queued the mail 2 times by mistake.

Bye,
	-- Nicola Paolucci

[Slashcode-general] About Moderation capabilities for users

[Nicola P. <ni...@no...>]

Hi,
We have been running a slashsite (based on slashcode 1.0.0.1) for several 
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 ?

Any clue will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys,

	-- Nicola Paolucci

[Slashcode-general] About Moderation capabilities for users

[Nicola P. <ni...@no...>]

Hi,
We have been running a slashsite (based on slashcode 1.0.0.1) for several 
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 ?

Any clue will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys,

	-- Nicola Paolucci

[Slashcode-general] slashcode-dearchive

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

Can someone explain how to use slashcode-dearchive ?  I upgraded from 1.0 to
2.0 a few weeks ago and noticed that I have comments missing from older
articles.  I looked at the usage screen and it doesnt make any sense.

--Brent

Re: [Slashcode-general] comments

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

Micah Yoder wrote:
> Will that even be the case on Slashdot?  So comments won't disappear from
> user info and searches after a couple weeks?  That would be sweet, but I
> don't want to think about the DB size...
Yep, and it is not that bad actually. The tables have been reorganized
to
make this sort of thing possible. You will notice that the comment
itself is now in comment_text, and that the rest of the attributes
are in comments. This means we just do a select on a key to gain
the test of the comment.
	-Brian

Re: [Slashcode-general] comments

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

> They stay in the DB.

Will that even be the case on Slashdot?  So comments won't disappear from 
user info and searches after a couple weeks?  That would be sweet, but I 
don't want to think about the DB size...

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Re: [Slashcode-general] comments

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

Brent Meshier wrote:
> 
> I recently upgraded from 1.0 to 2.0.  Since Bender doesn't use .shtml, how
> can I read the comments of my old stories?  It seems as though all the old
> comments are toast.  Also, what happens to the comments of a story after it
> reaches the "archive" date?  Erased?
They stay in the DB.

There is a script to import your comments back into the database.
	-Brian

[Slashcode-general] comments

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

I recently upgraded from 1.0 to 2.0.  Since Bender doesn't use .shtml, how
can I read the comments of my old stories?  It seems as though all the old
comments are toast.  Also, what happens to the comments of a story after it
reaches the "archive" date?  Erased?

--Brent

Re: [Slashcode-general] Porting to win32

[Alessio B. <al...@al...>]

Brian Taylor wrote:

> I'm sure most around here are linux advocates, but much of my work and play
> is done in windows, so I feel more comfortable running my server from there.

Please see the discussion at
<http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=01/07/13/1926206>

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[Slashcode-general] Porting to win32

[Brian T. <jod...@ho...>]

Ahh!! Please don't flame me too bad, or hit me over the head, or anything 
such as that.

I'm sure most around here are linux advocates, but much of my work and play 
is done in windows, so I feel more comfortable running my server from there. 
And this is just a little fun small-scale project just to see what I can do 
and to have my friends (a small group, obviously) be able to access my 
website. I've got MySQL, Perl, PHP, and of course Apache all up and running, 
but I've run into problems with compiling Slashcode.

First of all, I don't really know where to start on porting code. To me, my 
idea of porting code is "Eh, it's written in a standard language, shouldn't 
it compile wherever?" Unfortunately, I have no idea what to do with a 
makefile in windows (how to make vc++ do something with a makefile) or where 
to begin changing stuff around so it will work with windows.

I've messed around a bit with cygwin, actually got the thing to compile, but 
of course there was no way to install it as per the INSTALL in slashcode.

So, here I go: anyone have any win32 binaries, or can help me with getting 
this to work on my win32 apache??

Feel free to ignore this...

Brian

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Re: [Slashcode-general] blocks vs. templates?

[Nathan V. <na...@th...>]

Duh, that should be .shtml.

http://projects.thethirdsector.com/slashguide.shtml

Dan and I intended to contribute it to the slash project, which is why he
put it in the patches section on sourceforge.  Or maybe it'll go in Alex's
FAQ or whatever.  It's not that well-written but it's a lot better than
the wrong, outdated stuff in the getting_started.shtml that ships with
slash 2.0.  And also now it's in POD to match the rest of the docs.

So, the license is "here have this we needed it anyway and we're also
trying to show off because our company really needs some more slash
consulting work right now."

-n

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Brian Aker wrote:

> Nathan Vonnahme wrote:
> > First of all, we rewrote the getting_started document last week, and it's
> > available on sourceforge (in POD format...but uh, needs updating already),
> > and also at
> >   http://projects.thethirdsector.com/slashguide.html
> > It covers the blocks/templates distinction a bit.  Comments on that
> > document are welcome...
> I am getting a 404 on the document. What license is the document
> under? AKA at some point I want to add some more docs to slashcode
> and if it is well written, then it would make for a nice addition.
> 	-Brian
>
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Re: [Slashcode-general] blocks vs. templates?

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

Nathan Vonnahme wrote:
> First of all, we rewrote the getting_started document last week, and it's
> available on sourceforge (in POD format...but uh, needs updating already),
> and also at
>   http://projects.thethirdsector.com/slashguide.html
> It covers the blocks/templates distinction a bit.  Comments on that
> document are welcome...
I am getting a 404 on the document. What license is the document
under? AKA at some point I want to add some more docs to slashcode
and if it is well written, then it would make for a nice addition.
	-Brian

Re: [Slashcode-general] blocks vs. templates?

[Nathan V. <na...@th...>]

First of all, we rewrote the getting_started document last week, and it's
available on sourceforge (in POD format...but uh, needs updating already),
and also at
  http://projects.thethirdsector.com/slashguide.html
It covers the blocks/templates distinction a bit.  Comments on that
document are welcome...

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, barry wrote:

> 1 - Where in the templates are the right side blocks inserted? I see what
> looks like a default set in display;misc;default, but I don't see how that
> reacts to the user setting their own selection of blocks

To change which blocks are displayed by default, set the ordernum of the
blocks you want visible above 0, and they will be displayed in the order
of their ordernums.

> 2 - Is there a way to associate different blocks with different templates?
> Maybe the answer to the previous question will make the answer to this one
> obvious. I don't want all my blocks to have the same format, so even if I
> modify the fancybox template, I will still have only one. will the scheme
> work for new blocks I create?


In my message last week I explained how you can have blocks associated
with sections:

> For *blocks*, the old method still applies in slash 2-- so if you want an
> "older stuff" block in your debian section, you have to make a block named
> debian_more (that's why by default there are blocks like features_more and
> articles_more).  Also, if you have a block named "debian" it will show up
> on all the pages in the debian section (index and articles).

So you can have section-specific templates and section-specific blocks,
but it's dones a different way.


> 3 - has anyone tried using blocks as containers for ads? Thoughts or
> suggestions on that experience to share?

nope, not me...

Cheers,
nathan
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Re: [Slashcode-general] Problem "Can't locate object method"

[Nathan V. <na...@th...>]

I've seen that problem before, Alessio, but I can't remember exactly what
it was.  One time we had upgraded mysql, and didn't know that we then also
had to recompile the DBD::mysql driver using the new mysql libs.

I saw that problem another time too but I can't remember what it turned
out to be...

Good luck, though.
-n

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Alessio Bragadini wrote:

> I have quite a problem in running Slash on my Digital Unix box (with
> Apache 1.3.20 and mod_perl 1.26). The installation has been successful,
> even if after a lot of tweaking (Makefile and other scripts believe
> everyone runs GNU Make, GNU fileutils, etc.).
>
> Now the command-line part of the system works (slashd, portald, index.pl
> run with virtual_user option) but not the web site; this is an example
> of the error logged:
>
> [Thu Jul 19 16:37:50 2001] [error] Can't locate object method
> "sqlConnect" via package "Slash::DB" at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/alpha-dec_osf/Slash/Apache/User.pm
> line 75.
>
> Seens a problem of (un)loaded modules under Apache/mod_perl. I've
> searched the archive for similar problems, but they all suggest
> double-checking the httpd configuration which I believe it's correct: it
> contains all PerlModule declarations and it's not different from the
> stock distribution.
>
> This is a problem I've never encountered when installing on Linux
> (Debian or RedHat)...
>
> Any hint would be appreciated.
>
>

[Slashcode-general] Problem "Can't locate object method"

[Alessio B. <al...@al...>]

I have quite a problem in running Slash on my Digital Unix box (with
Apache 1.3.20 and mod_perl 1.26). The installation has been successful,
even if after a lot of tweaking (Makefile and other scripts believe
everyone runs GNU Make, GNU fileutils, etc.). 

Now the command-line part of the system works (slashd, portald, index.pl
run with virtual_user option) but not the web site; this is an example
of the error logged:

[Thu Jul 19 16:37:50 2001] [error] Can't locate object method
"sqlConnect" via package "Slash::DB" at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/alpha-dec_osf/Slash/Apache/User.pm
line 75.

Seens a problem of (un)loaded modules under Apache/mod_perl. I've
searched the archive for similar problems, but they all suggest
double-checking the httpd configuration which I believe it's correct: it
contains all PerlModule declarations and it's not different from the
stock distribution.

This is a problem I've never encountered when installing on Linux
(Debian or RedHat)...

Any hint would be appreciated.

-- 
Alessio F. Bragadini		al...@al...
APL Financial Services		http://village.albourne.com
Nicosia, Cyprus		 	phone: +357-2-755750

"It is more complicated than you think"
		-- The Eighth Networking Truth from RFC 1925