On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Karsten Kraus wrote:
> Is it possible to have the division between 'development server' and
> 'live server'
> with midgard too? Perhaps two midgard-servers which sync their databases?
>
> Or even better, is it possible to tell midgard to generate "real html"
> on the 'live-server' from pages/articles marked as "static" and only
> feed "dynamic" or "active" content from the ('live-servers') database?
Even static pages are scripts so this division is somehat arbitrary.
You can mirror midgard pages to all-static ones by using wget or another
mirroring utility of choice. 1.2.6 introduces replication so you'll be
able to replicate the development material to the live site.
You can also safely develop a whole site on the same machine that hosts
the live site and switch over the name or portnumber at the moment you
feel it's ready for the world at large.
> Is it possible to create articles which aren't public visible until some given
> date/time is reached and/or the were checked and approved by some, let's say
> "administrator"?
Sure. You can use the articles approval status and the date limiting
list functions for this kind of setup.
> Is it possible (boring, eh?) to build a custom Admin-Site for contenters,
> where they only
> see topics they are allowed to modify, perhaps based on their login?
> Same for designer, concering the "layout/style-management"-section?
Sure. The midgard admin site that comes with the distribution is just
a midgard application. You can built your own in the same way.
> Will there be support for the "Adabas D"-RDBMS in 2.0 ??
2.0 will have ODBC an connector so if Adabas does ODBC: yes.
> Is there a way of logging out from the admin site and re-login under an
> other account??
See http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94051212509604&w=2
> What does the "score" field for topics/articles do?? Some sort criteria?
It;s used for sorting.
> Which consequences does the "approved" button have? Same for the "lock"
> button?
They set the approved/aprover and locked/locker fields. No other
consequence but you can use the data in your displaying code to limit
access based on locking/approval.
> What is the "URL-Field" (article) for?
Whatever you like. No fixed meaning.
> What does "online" / "offline" radioboxes in the host properties do?
> If offline means "not shown to the public" how can such a server be
> accessed be me?
If a host is offline it's not accessable for anyone. To limit access you'll
have to use authentication.
> What do the "active" / "static" boxes mean??
active pages put everything that follows their url in the $argv array.
So an active page /article that is called with /article/please/get/this.html
would offer the script the array $argv = [ "please", "get", "this" ]
Often used to pass ids to scripts.
> Could you try to explain the concept of the root page an its subpages to me?
> I understand, that the directory structure of the site is defined here,
Not directories as such but the URL hierarchy yes.
> but how can I bind
> all articles of one topic tree to a directory / subpage?
> Do I have to write code like in the "news"-subpage for that or is
> there a faster/easier way?
There is no explicit link between a page- and a content tree. Usually
there are active pages /topc and /article which simply display the
topic/article that's passed to them as the parameter (see argv trick above)
emile
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