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Re: [Slashcode-general] OSX Installation Revisited - Slash on Tiger

[Craig H. <cra...@go...>]

Thanks Shane, I'll give it another go tonight. I have a couple of questions
though:

If I'm installing a seperate instance of Apache from the default one, can I
use the binary or will I have to install it with make install, and will it
include mod_perl?

Is there anything that I definately need to get via fink that's not
mentioned in the Slash install file?

Cheers,
Craig

On 25/09/2007, shane <sh...@lo...> wrote:
>
>
>  On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Craig Hand wrote:
>
>  I've found a couple of stories on slashcode.com regarding Slash on OSX,
> however nothing recent and I was wondering if the situation has changed any
> with Tiger (and indeed perhaps Leopard). For example, while somepody
> mentioned a good guide to installing mod_perl for OSX, AFAIK it was written
> around four years ago, and a lot has changed since then. Unlike back in the
> day, the likes of PHP4 and mod_perl can now be enabled in OSX simply by
> uncommenting them in httpd.conf, and MySQL (as well as PHP5) can be
> installed with a friendly binary.
>
> As someone who's looking to install Slash on Tiger, do any of these
> developments make things any more straightforward or does Slash still
> require everything to be built from scratch? If it's the latter, does anyone
> have any pointers for someone who's not afraid of the command line but a bit
> of a greenhorn when it comes to the likes of apt-get and make? Also, how
> does the OSX install process differ from the Linux one?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> I do virtually all of my mod_perl/slashcode development on OSX machines.
> Typically, I don't replace the existing perl, I keep it. I install MySQL
> v5.x via one of the MySQL Installer Packages from mysql.com. I'll use fink
> or one of the other source code repo's to install some of the "extras" (ie
> GD, libreq, whatever) that don't come with the perl bundle Bundle::Slash
> (or, that perl packages w/in that bundle require).
>
>
> I do keep the stock Apache installed - but not to run slash. I install
> Apache 1.3.x from tarball and keep it in /usr/local/slash. It's not that
> you probably couldn't try and use the stock Apache, but I typically use that
> for other code development. It's easier for me if they are completely
> separate. And that way I can match the version of the tarball w/ what we are
> running in production at any given time from any given system, and I don't
> have to worry about messing with the stock Apache wrt Apple Updates (if
> any).
>
>
> As long as you follow the INSTALL documentation (I recommend setting up
> CPAN as it says, because it makes the install of Bundle::Slash _far_ easier)
> you're good to go.
>
>
> Once you have all the required software that slash needs installed,
> installation is no different from a linux box. Just 'make install'.
>
>
> If you do use the stock Apache, I would love to hear back from you as to
> how it goes and what you had to do to make it work, if anything.
>
>
>  Shane
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Slashcode-general] OSX Installation Revisited - Slash on Tiger

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Craig Hand wrote:

> I've found a couple of stories on slashcode.com regarding Slash on  
> OSX, however nothing recent and I was wondering if the situation  
> has changed any with Tiger (and indeed perhaps Leopard). For  
> example, while somepody mentioned a good guide to installing  
> mod_perl for OSX, AFAIK it was written around four years ago, and a  
> lot has changed since then. Unlike back in the day, the likes of  
> PHP4 and mod_perl can now be enabled in OSX simply by uncommenting  
> them in httpd.conf, and MySQL (as well as PHP5) can be installed  
> with a friendly binary.
>
> As someone who's looking to install Slash on Tiger, do any of these  
> developments make things any more straightforward or does Slash  
> still require everything to be built from scratch? If it's the  
> latter, does anyone have any pointers for someone who's not afraid  
> of the command line but a bit of a greenhorn when it comes to the  
> likes of apt-get and make? Also, how does the OSX install process  
> differ from the Linux one?
>
> Thanks!

I do virtually all of my mod_perl/slashcode development on OSX  
machines. Typically, I don't replace the existing perl, I keep it. I  
install MySQL v5.x via one of the MySQL Installer Packages from  
mysql.com. I'll use fink or one of the other source code repo's to  
install some of the "extras" (ie GD, libreq, whatever) that don't  
come with the perl bundle Bundle::Slash (or, that perl packages w/in  
that bundle require).

I do keep the stock Apache installed - but not to run slash. I  
install Apache 1.3.x from tarball and keep it in /usr/local/slash.  
It's not that you probably couldn't try and use the stock Apache, but  
I typically use that for other code development. It's easier for me  
if they are completely separate. And that way I can match the version  
of the tarball w/ what we are running in production at any given time  
from any given system, and I don't have to worry about messing with  
the stock Apache wrt Apple Updates (if any).

As long as you follow the INSTALL documentation (I recommend setting  
up CPAN as it says, because it makes the install of Bundle::Slash  
_far_ easier) you're good to go.

Once you have all the required software that slash needs installed,  
installation is no different from a linux box. Just 'make install'.

If you do use the stock Apache, I would love to hear back from you as  
to how it goes and what you had to do to make it work, if anything.

  Shane



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[Slashcode-general] OSX Installation Revisited - Slash on Tiger

[Craig H. <cra...@go...>]

I've found a couple of stories on slashcode.com regarding Slash on OSX,
however nothing recent and I was wondering if the situation has changed any
with Tiger (and indeed perhaps Leopard). For example, while somepody
mentioned a good guide to installing mod_perl for OSX, AFAIK it was written
around four years ago, and a lot has changed since then. Unlike back in the
day, the likes of PHP4 and mod_perl can now be enabled in OSX simply by
uncommenting them in httpd.conf, and MySQL (as well as PHP5) can be
installed with a friendly binary.

As someone who's looking to install Slash on Tiger, do any of these
developments make things any more straightforward or does Slash still
require everything to be built from scratch? If it's the latter, does anyone
have any pointers for someone who's not afraid of the command line but a bit
of a greenhorn when it comes to the likes of apt-get and make? Also, how
does the OSX install process differ from the Linux one?

Thanks!

Re: [Slashcode-general] db replication - permissions, is_alive, was_running and dbs_readerstatus

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Jamie McCarthy wrote:

> Good call, Shane, thanks.  I've committed a code comment in
> balance_readers.pl to describe your fix and in the INSTALL file
> added Process_priv to the list of privileges we ask admins to set up
> so at least new sites won't have the same problem.
>
> The better fix would be for use to use SHOW SLAVE STATUS instead of
> the older kludgier method that necessity forced us to use back in
> the day.  I've also noted that in balance_readers.pl.  Someday I'll
> get around to writing it.
>
> And of course we should have some docs about replication as well,
> not to mention memcached, since those are some of Slash's strong
> points (sigh).  Sorry...

Since I worked through setting up both (more then likely with your  
help, too, thx), I've got notes written down somewhere. I'll see if I  
can't put something together that could be considered a candidate to  
add to the docs.  No promises on the timeframe, though :(

Thanks,
  Shane

Re: [Slashcode-general] db replication - permissions, is_alive, was_running and dbs_readerstatus

[Jamie M. <ja...@mc...>]

Good call, Shane, thanks.  I've committed a code comment in
balance_readers.pl to describe your fix and in the INSTALL file
added Process_priv to the list of privileges we ask admins to set up
so at least new sites won't have the same problem.

The better fix would be for use to use SHOW SLAVE STATUS instead of
the older kludgier method that necessity forced us to use back in
the day.  I've also noted that in balance_readers.pl.  Someday I'll
get around to writing it.

And of course we should have some docs about replication as well,
not to mention memcached, since those are some of Slash's strong
points (sigh).  Sorry...
--=20
  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  ja...@mc...

Re: [Slashcode-general] Question about how comments and Stories are linked

[Jamie M. <ja...@mc...>]

eri...@ja... (Eric Dannewitz) writes:

> select stories.sid,stories.stoid, count(comments.uid) nocomments
> from stories, comments where stories.stoid=3Dcomments.sid group by
> 2 order by 3;

I think what you want is something like

SELECT stories.sid, stories.stoid,
    COUNT(DISTINCT comments.uid) AS num_users,
    COUNT(*) AS num_comments
=46ROM stories, comments
WHERE stories.discussion=3Dcomments.sid
GROUP BY stories.stoid
ORDER BY num_users DESC LIMIT 10;

(The GROUP BY could be stories.sid with the same effect, since both
sid and stoid are unique in that table.)
--=20
  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  ja...@mc...

Re: [Slashcode-general] Stories/Comments, root

[Jamie M. <ja...@mc...>]

eri...@ja... (Eric Dannewitz) writes:

> Ok, after some digging I found that comments and stories are
> linked via a discussions variable in the stories. That is rather
> strange.....oh well.

Not at all.  Comments are grouped together by being in the same
discussion.  Then each discussion is linked to one (or in rare
cases more than one) other type of object in the system.  To be
precise, a discussion (aka a collection of comments) can be
attached to a poll, a user journal, a submission (via firehose),
or a story.  (Or it can stand alone, but that's archaic code
that probably no site still uses.)

The strange part is that, as you noted, stories.sid is a string and
discussions.sid is numeric.  Those are totally different data types
which happen to have the same name.  Also "sid" appears as a URL
param but it's different for article.pl (stories.sid) and
comments.pl (discussions.sid).

stories.discussion =3D discussions.sid
      comments.sid =3D discussions.sid

> Next problem is that I moved a site to a different domain
> header, from www.mysite.com to slash.mysite.com, and it still is
> generating templates with www in it even though I went through
> all the values in the VARS table and changed them. rootdir is
> //slash.mysite.com
>=20
> What am I missing?

skins table, probably.

Also, see the paragraph of the INSTALL file that begins:

    If you're planning on having sections with more than two dots
    in the hostname...
--=20
  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  ja...@mc...

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashcode support for OpenID?

[Jamie M. <ja...@mc...>]

I've been kinda wanting to do this for a while now.

I haven't looked over the OpenID spec lately but I think it'd be
pretty straightforward to add code to allow Slash site users to
specify foo.com/~nick as their identity url so they could
authenticate that way on other sites.  That seems like it'd be a
project of less than a day or two, including reading the spec, but
we basically just haven't gotten around to it.

If anyone has done it already and wants to submit a patch, go right
ahead, I'd love to add it.  (The more-commented the code, the more
quickly I can understand and accept the patch... comments linking to
spec URLs to explain what the code does are especially awesome.)

Or if anyone wants to explain to me in detail what specs to read,
what existing code to reuse, and what my code has to do, I can
probably write the plugin in a weekend.  But you'd have to be
persistent, I will probably have lots of email questions.  And I'm
not sure which weekend it would be :)

And, there's two sides to OpenID.  It'd be harder to enable Slash to
allow login with OpenID somehow.  It's not desirable (at least for
Slashdot) to equate merely having an OpenID URL with having created
a Slash user, nor is it obvious what the relationship between those
things would look like. (If you aren't logged in and present OpenID
credentials, do we robo-create a user for you?  After you enter a
captcha?  What about all the code that assumes a Slash user has a
valid email address?  Or do we treat your OpenID URL as a
pseudo-user somehow?  That's a huge can of worms.  Is login handled
properly by the 4+ different authentiction code paths in Slash?)

The cheap way out would be to just allow existing users to enter and
confirm an OpenID identity URL and then note that fact in their user
data so it can appear on their /~nick page.  But would anyone
seriously care about that?  If everyone did it, I'm sure some
researcher would wet themselves and write a paper with graphs of
LJ-/. users but I doubt anyone's going to do it unless there's some
benefit.  Explain to me what that benefit could be, and I'll
consider working on that part of OpenID.
--=20
  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  ja...@mc...

[Slashcode-general] Slashcode support for OpenID?

[Alexandre L. <ale...@ec...>]

Hi list,

Has anyone though of or has interest in slashcode support of OpenID?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID

It's quite possible I'll soon need single sign on capabilities for 
multiples sites, including a slash-based site.

If you're interested, please contact me. I'm also opened to alternatives 
if you have anything to suggest! :-)

Cheers,

Alex
http://slashgeo.org
-- 
Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
Division de la réponse aux urgences environnementales /
Environmental Emergency Response Division
ale...@ec...

[Slashcode-general] Stories/Comments, root

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

Ok, after some digging I found that comments and stories are linked via 
a discussions variable in the stories. That is rather strange.....oh well.

Next problem is that I moved a site to a different domain header, from 
www.mysite.com to slash.mysite.com, and it still is generating templates 
with www in it even though I went through all the values in the VARS 
table and changed them. rootdir is //slash.mysite.com

What am I missing?

Re: [Slashcode-general] Question about how comments and Stories are linked

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

Except that stories.sid is a varchar(16)
and comments.sid is a mediumint(8)

shane wrote:
>
>
> I believe the foreign key logic would be
>
> stories.sid <-> comments.sid
>
>

Re: [Slashcode-general] Question about how comments and Stories are linked

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:

> I'm racking my brain looking at the Mysql database, and trying to  
> figure
> out how Comments are associated with stories.
>
> Like, if I did a
>
> select stories.sid,stories.stoid, count(comments.uid) nocomments from
> stories, comments where stories.stoid=comments.sid group by 2 order  
> by 3;
>
>
> It doesn't come out right. Ideas?

I believe the foreign key logic would be

stories.sid <-> comments.sid




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[Slashcode-general] Question about how comments and Stories are linked

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

I'm racking my brain looking at the Mysql database, and trying to figure 
out how Comments are associated with stories.

Like, if I did a

select stories.sid,stories.stoid, count(comments.uid) nocomments from 
stories, comments where stories.stoid=comments.sid group by 2 order by 3;


It doesn't come out right. Ideas?

[Slashcode-general] db replication - permissions, is_alive, was_running and dbs_readerstatus

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

Anyone have (or know of) a complete list of the required permissions  
for a the mysql-user's privileges (which each site's virtual user  
needs to use) when doing database replication w/ multiple slaves?

I ask because we ran into a bit of an issue. We added our 2nd slave.  
And the slave would never 'go live'. It's isalive='Yes' in the dbs  
table (as  'reader'). When we would query our slash-jabber-bot for  
database-status it'd say:

lag ? bog  0.0 STOPPED! - it_read2

I had a heck of a time figuring out how to get it to the 'unstopped'.

What I ended up figuring out was that it was a permissions problem.  
The site's VU's mysql user had relatively minimal permissions on the  
slave. We had it setup that way because, well, it's only ever doing  
select's on that server, the replication-user is doing everything else.

I started looking at permissions because of this:

mysql> select * from dbs_readerstatus order by ts DESC limit 4;
+---------------------+------+-----------+--------------- 
+-------------+----------------+----------------+----------- 
+------------+-------------------+
| ts                  | dbid | was_alive | was_reachable |  
was_running | slave_lag_secs | query_bog_secs | bog_rsqid |  
had_weight | had_weight_adjust |
+---------------------+------+-----------+--------------- 
+-------------+----------------+----------------+----------- 
+------------+-------------------+
| 2007-07-19 10:13:04 |    6 | yes       | yes           |  
no          |           NULL |              0 |      NULL |           
1 |               0.1 |
| 2007-07-19 10:13:04 |    2 | yes       | yes           |  
yes         |              0 |              0 |      NULL |           
1 |                 1 |
| 2007-07-19 10:12:59 |    6 | yes       | yes           |  
no          |           NULL |              0 |      NULL |           
1 |               0.1 |
| 2007-07-19 10:12:59 |    2 | yes       | yes           |  
yes         |              3 |              0 |      NULL |           
1 |                 1 |
+---------------------+------+-----------+--------------- 
+-------------+----------------+----------------+----------- 
+------------+-------------------+

(the id=6 is the new slave). It was never ending up with  
'was_running='yes''

which I knew was wrong, because I could ssh into the machine and  
attach to the processes and see that it was replicating just fine.

I ended up figuring out that the VU that is accessing the slave needs  
Process_priv.

ie

update user set Process_priv='Y' where User='foo';

Because it does a show full processlist, and it looks for the  
processes by the 'System user'. If the VU exec'ing that command  
doesn't have the priv, it won't see that, then the code will put an  
odd entry in your slashd logs;

	slashdLog("Process id $hr->{Id} on vu '$vu'"
						. " has unknown system user state"
						. " '$state'");

and you'll eventually get marked as stopped:

		# Determine the two big numbers we care about:  how far
		# behind its slave sql thread is, and what's its worst
		# repeated bogged-down query.

		# First check to be sure it has a slave sql thread running.
		my $slave_sql_id = $slave_sql_id{$vu};
		if (!$slave_sql_id) {
			# If not, its slave is stopped and we can't calculate
			# its lag.
			$reader_info->{$vu}{stopped} = 1;
		} else {
			# If so, pull the lag of that process in seconds.
			my $slave_sql_lag = $process{$vu}{$slave_sql_id}{Time};
			$reader_info->{$vu}{slave_lag_secs} = $slave_sql_lag;
		}

(I'm pulling all the code from the balance_readers.pl task in themes/ 
slashcode/tasks)

I did look through the docs before I attempted this. I couldn't find  
a section discussing the specifics of replication (it'd be helpful  
for the weighting system to be spelled out somewhere in the docs!)  
though it is talked about in slashguide.pod.

Thanks,
  Shane

Re: [Slashcode-general] Flat Comments in Article shtml Files?

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Blake Carver wrote:

> Is it possible to have the shtml files for the stories have the
> comments be flat instead of nested? I thought there might be a var but
> I don't see it.

try the anonymous coward's user-pref for comment-listing-type.

if you want this to go site-wide you should probably then restart  
slashd (dunno if it caches the anon user or not, i'd think not but ya  
never know till you look through the code/docs) then mark all the  
prior stories as 'dirty' so the stories will be re-rendered to fresh  
shtml's w/ the new comment-listing-type. there's a script that'll do  
that for you: http://slash.lottadot.com/files/makedirty.plx

  Shane

[Slashcode-general] Flat Comments in Article shtml Files?

[Blake C. <li...@li...>]

Is it possible to have the shtml files for the stories have the
comments be flat instead of nested? I thought there might be a var but
I don't see it.

-Blake

[Slashcode-general] Remove Ip Ban Howto??

[Federico <fed...@gm...>]

Good Morning,
i am a beginner in slash and i have a problem that i don't understand very
well, i would ask you if you can help me, please!
I have a forum obviously based in slash, and yesterday some user has wrote
me that when he try to make a post, slash give an answer that say something
like:".. an excessive number of unsuitable messages from this IP or subnet,
the shipment of comments has been temporary suspended...."
My question is where i can remove this ban( IP or Subnet) to make available
this user the posting in my forum??
Thank you a lot in advance for your patience!

Best regards Federico*
*

Re: [Slashcode-general] T_2_5_0_160 MySQL(4) tables & firehose

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Jun 12, 2007, at 7:51 PM, Reid Maynard wrote:

> My barely-two-week-old install, not much on it. During the install I
> got a error about problem creating the firehose table(?) or something
> like that. Now I am returning to the issue. I logged into MySQL
> expecting to find no firehose table, but surprise, their are three
>
> firehose
> firehose_tab
> firehose_ext
>
> I have 177 in all
>
> I haven't investigated firehose via the UI,  but I am getting this  
> error
>
> Error:Slash::Display::Provider:/usr/local/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/ 
> 5.8.8/i686-linux/Slash/Display/Provider.pm:81:Failed
> template lookup (returning false) on
> 'rand_mesg;firehose[misc];mainpage[default]', keys: 354, callers:
> Slash::Display line 219, Slash::FireHose line 1810, main line 69
>
> in the slashd.log
>
> -Reid

Do you experience the same thing with later tags? (161,162,163 if it  
exists)

There is a bug that may-be-related to this:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=1630587&group_id=4421&atid=104421

Basically, when you do a fresh install, and you don't pick the  
Moderation Plugin, you'll see mucho errors and the install pretty  
much total fails.

However, with regard to the issue you brought up - I just checked out  
_160, then installed (selecting the Firehose plugin, and the  
Moderation plugin) and it went a-ok.

Are you sure you have a clean checkout of T_2_5_0_160?

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@sl...:/cvsroot/ 
slashcode co -P -r T_2_5_0_160 slash

Regarding the rand_mesg - that means the system's not finding the  
rand_mesg;firehose;default template in your site's database (ie table  
templates). You can do a sql query to double-check. Is it in your  
source-tree on your file system?

coolio:/usr/local/src/slash/current.untouched shane$ pwd
/usr/local/src/slash/current.untouched
coolio:/usr/local/src/slash/current.untouched shane$ cd plugins/ 
FireHose/templates/
coolio:/usr/local/src/slash/current.untouched/plugins/FireHose/ 
templates shane$ ls rand_mesg*
ls: rand_mesg*: No such file or directory

but something is calling it:

coolio:/usr/local/src/slash/current.untouched/plugins shane$ cd ..
coolio:/usr/local/src/slash/current.untouched shane$ grep -R  
'rand_mesg' *
plugins/FireHose/templates/list;firehose;default:               [%  
PROCESS rand_mesg %]

So if I update my source-tree to the latest tag

cvs -q update -dPC -r T_2_5_0_163

and repeat those two (ls & grep), I get the same results. So as of a  
much more up-to-date tag, the template's still missing.

I think you've found a bug! I filed it:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=1737761&group_id=4421&atid=104421

However, the schema structure's there in mine w/o problems:


mysql> show tables like "firehose%";
+-----------------------------+
| Tables_in_slash (firehose%) |
+-----------------------------+
| firehose                    |
| firehose_tab                |
| firehose_text               |
+-----------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

I don't see any other firehose-related errors in my logs. Maybe you  
are misinterpreting the error you quoted with having to do with the  
Firehose plugin's schema?

  Shane

[Slashcode-general] T_2_5_0_160 MySQL(4) tables & firehose

[Reid M. <rei...@gm...>]

My barely-two-week-old install, not much on it. During the install I
got a error about problem creating the firehose table(?) or something
like that. Now I am returning to the issue. I logged into MySQL
expecting to find no firehose table, but surprise, their are three

firehose
firehose_tab
firehose_ext

I have 177 in all

I haven't investigated firehose via the UI,  but I am getting this error

Error:Slash::Display::Provider:/usr/local/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux/Slash/Display/Provider.pm:81:Failed
template lookup (returning false) on
'rand_mesg;firehose[misc];mainpage[default]', keys: 354, callers:
Slash::Display line 219, Slash::FireHose line 1810, main line 69

in the slashd.log

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Re: [Slashcode-general] multiple topics, limited editors

[Larson, T. E. <TEL...@we...>]

shane wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> 	When submitting a story, how does the user select multiple
topics?  Or
> 	does the user only choose a "primary" topic and the posting
editor
> 	selects the others?
>=20
> submitter selects only one, author can select 1-N

Could I simply change the HTML to give a multi-select to the users, or
would the code barf if fed multiple options at that point?

> 	Can editors be limited to post articles only to sections of
their
> 	expertise?
>=20
> When you look at the user's page (ie site.tld/~someusername) you
should see
> an "author in" checkbox - and then a pulldown to select that section.
>=20
> I believe that's intended to limit where that author can post an
> article.=20

Wonderful!

I've been lurking around for about 5 years thinking "some day" I'd set
up a site, just as soon as I had time to hack in some features I thought
necessary to achieve its goal.  (Free time?  Ha!)  Today I realized that
most of those things I wanted to do are now possible in some fashion.
Now I just have to figure out how to work some reverse proxy magic with
Apache2 (I only have a single IP, prefer v2, and don't want to mess with
a different port in URLs) and I should be set!


Thanks,
Tim
--=20
Tim Larson
InterCall, a subsidiary of West Corporation
Eschew obfuscation!

Re: [Slashcode-general] multiple topics, limited editors

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:

> Two quick questions:
>
> When submitting a story, how does the user select multiple topics?  Or
> does the user only choose a "primary" topic and the posting editor
> selects the others?

submitter selects only one, author can select 1-N

>
> Can editors be limited to post articles only to sections of their
> expertise?


When you look at the user's page (ie site.tld/~someusername

you should see

an "author in" checkbox - and then a pulldown to select that section.

I believe that's intended to limit where that author can post an  
article.

  Shane



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[Slashcode-general] multiple topics, limited editors

[Larson, T. E. <TEL...@we...>]

Two quick questions:

When submitting a story, how does the user select multiple topics?  Or
does the user only choose a "primary" topic and the posting editor
selects the others?

Can editors be limited to post articles only to sections of their
expertise?


Thanks,
Tim

--=20
Tim Larson
InterCall, a subsidiary of West Corporation
Eschew obfuscation!

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashcode on Apache2

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On May 30, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:

> Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
>> My VPS is running Debian 4.1.1-21 with apache2 installed.
>>
>> Question:
>> Is there any chance that slashcode is going to work with the version
>> of apache installed in my VPS?
>>
>> Do think it will be ok if I use this patch ->
>> http://www.slashcode.com/articles/04/02/19/2144259.shtml
>
> That article is from 2004, and says "Please note that Apache2+mod_perl
> is still not quite ready for prime_time" - any update on that front?

Hmm, I thought there'd be something more recent then that. I swear  
someone was asking about it in 2006. Maybe search slashcode.com itself?

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashcode on Apache2

[Larson, T. E. <TEL...@we...>]

Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> My VPS is running Debian 4.1.1-21 with apache2 installed.
>=20
> Question:
> Is there any chance that slashcode is going to work with the version
> of apache installed in my VPS?=20
>=20
> Do think it will be ok if I use this patch ->
> http://www.slashcode.com/articles/04/02/19/2144259.shtml=20

That article is from 2004, and says "Please note that Apache2+mod_perl
is still not quite ready for prime_time" - any update on that front?

Tim
--=20
Tim Larson
InterCall, a subsidiary of West Corporation
Eschew obfuscation!

Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashcode on Apache2

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On May 30, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just subcribed to a VPS hosting company gplhost.com which uses  
> apache2
> for their control panel software.
>
> My VPS is running Debian 4.1.1-21 with apache2 installed.
>
> Question:
> Is there any chance that slashcode is going to work with the  
> version of
> apache installed
> in my VPS?
>
> Do think it will be ok if I use this patch ->
> http://www.slashcode.com/articles/04/02/19/2144259.shtml

Check the listserve archives. It's been discussed before I believe by  
others more in-the-know then me. As far as I know, the answer is no,  
it doesn't work. If you modify it to work with Apache2, then please  
submit a patch :)

  Shane


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