Considering what we went through to convince mark to accept donations it seems unlikely he's going to start charging for this particular piece of software.
Yes, it will still be free :)
I have a bunch of other pieces of software that will also be free in the works. Eventually I'll be releasing some services that you will have to pay for to use (if you want to). I'm hoping that all of the traffic I'm getting from my free software will flow over into the pay-services so I can quit working for other people and do the services / open-source stuff full time.
I'm finally working on this, and after 6 hours of trying to get mod_rewrite to work, I've decided that it is beyond me. I simply cannot get it to work.
mod_rewrite is installed and configured, but it doesn't direct to any pages. No matter what I try, I get every variety of generic server error that explains nothing.
I've got apache set up with a virtual host like so:
Listen 8020
<VirtualHost localhost:8020>
Alias /people/library C:\applications\lussumo\GlobalLibrary
Alias /swell/library C:\applications\lussumo\GlobalLibrary
Alias /people/themes C:\applications\lussumo\vanilla\themes
Alias /swell/themes C:\applications\lussumo\vanilla\themes
Alias /people/js C:\applications\lussumo\GlobalJs
Alias /swell/js C:\applications\lussumo\GlobalJs
Alias /vanilla/js C:\applications\lussumo\GlobalJs
DocumentRoot C:\applications\lussumo
ServerName localhost:8020
<Directory C:\applications\lussumo>
AllowOverride All
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
php_value include_path .
php_flag asp_tags off
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
php_flag register_globals off
php_flag expose_php off
php_flag register_argc_argv off
php_value session.save_path c:/temp/
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php default.php
#Rewrite Rules
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
# RewriteBase /vanilla/
RewriteRule ^discussion/([0-9]+)/?$ comments.php?DiscussionID=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^discussion/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ comments.php?DiscussionID=$1&page=$2 [L]
</VirtualHost>
Vanilla sits in a "vanilla" subdirectory off c:\applications\lussumo. I've tried a ton of different variations on the rewrite rules - I originally thought it might be a path problem. This is just the latest set of simple rules I've been trying.
I've been trying to load the following url without any success:
Try RewriteBase /vanilla, without the extra slash. I'd stick it in an .htaccess file within the vanilla directory, though, so you can lose the RewriteBase and also distribute it with future versions of Vanilla.
For instance, the following in an .htaccess file within the Vanilla root directory worked for me:
Chris - no, I haven't. I'd really like it to work in both environments, so I'm just focusing on the local right now.
Sirnot - I'll give that a shot. And I think the .htaccess file is the way to go, as well. I've just gotten used to mucking about with my httpd.conf.
While we're on the subject, one of the difficult things I'm trying to deal with is how to handle all of the potential url parameters that could come about while using Vanilla. There are, to name a few:
* PostBackAction (when performing various actions throughout the site)
* Page (for going through different pages of discussions or comments)
* DiscussionID (when looking at a discussion)
* CommentID (when editing a comment)
* Highlight (for search terms)
I'm trying to work on a url builder that can be told "use mod_rewrite" or "don't use mod_rewrite" and work either way. The biggest difficulty I'm finding is that I just don't know the best way to reference this information in the url. I'm so used to the name/value pairs that dropping the name just doesn't make sense to me.
Example: I'm thinking of doing something like this for a page of comments:
vanilla.com/discussion/1083/5
Where 1083 is the discussionid and 5 is the page.
Does that make sense? Should I be handling paging in some other way?
I just want some consistency with this, and it's new to me so I don't know any best practices.
I think vanilla.com/discussion/1083/5/vanilla-is-cool/ would work best as you get the numbers out the way first, mostly people will see the visual style of "vanilla-is-cool" which I think most people would like.
Hahaha - well, I'm just trying to get the flippin thing to work right now. Either way, while I appreciate that people like to see the text in the url, I don't see it as a necessary thing, so I will probably make the mod_rewrite work for either
vanilla.com/discussion/1083/5
OR
vanilla.com/discussion/1083/5/vanilla-is-cool/
... meaning that the text is just there for a visual reminder about what the thread might be about, but is completely ignored by mod_rewrite
How dumb of me, I look at the address of my vanilla installation and didn't even check this one. I downloaded vanilla a few days ago, shouldn't my version have that too? or I need to enable it?
If so how do I do it?
0.9.3 is not ready for release yet. There are a few minor bugs in it, and I'm waiting on some of the members who are rewriting the xhtml and css. Once that is done, I will release it as version 1 and there will be both a new installation script, and a new upgrade script that will help with upgrading from 0.9.2.
oh great, I wish I could help but with my current knowledge I'd probably just get in the way.
I'll start by creating some extentions in my very very reduced free time.
Congrats for Vanilla.
Are there any predictions on when it will be released?
Comments
mod_rewrite is installed and configured, but it doesn't direct to any pages. No matter what I try, I get every variety of generic server error that explains nothing.
I've got apache set up with a virtual host like so:
Listen 8020 <VirtualHost localhost:8020> Alias /people/library C:\applications\lussumo\GlobalLibrary Alias /swell/library C:\applications\lussumo\GlobalLibrary Alias /people/themes C:\applications\lussumo\vanilla\themes Alias /swell/themes C:\applications\lussumo\vanilla\themes Alias /people/js C:\applications\lussumo\GlobalJs Alias /swell/js C:\applications\lussumo\GlobalJs Alias /vanilla/js C:\applications\lussumo\GlobalJs DocumentRoot C:\applications\lussumo ServerName localhost:8020 <Directory C:\applications\lussumo> AllowOverride All Options +Indexes </Directory> php_value include_path . php_flag asp_tags off php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off php_flag register_globals off php_flag expose_php off php_flag register_argc_argv off php_value session.save_path c:/temp/ DirectoryIndex index.html index.php default.php #Rewrite Rules RewriteEngine on Options +FollowSymlinks # RewriteBase /vanilla/ RewriteRule ^discussion/([0-9]+)/?$ comments.php?DiscussionID=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^discussion/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ comments.php?DiscussionID=$1&page=$2 [L] </VirtualHost>Vanilla sits in a "vanilla" subdirectory off c:\applications\lussumo. I've tried a ton of different variations on the rewrite rules - I originally thought it might be a path problem. This is just the latest set of simple rules I've been trying.I've been trying to load the following url without any success:
http://localhost:8020/vanilla/discussion/1083
No luck.
# RewriteBase /vanilla/Apache won't start when I try to restart it. It just stops and then throws an error.
For instance, the following in an .htaccess file within the Vanilla root directory worked for me: Which would be accessed like /vanilla/c_5.html, or /vanilla/d_1.html.
I think vanilla.com/discussion/1083/5/vanilla-is-cool/ would work best as you get the numbers out the way first, mostly people will see the visual style of "vanilla-is-cool" which I think most people would like.