On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 08:27:18AM +0200, Armand A. Verstappen wrote:
> Hi Zach!
>
> First of all, welcome to the wonders of Midgard. I am glad you got it up and
> running and am curious if you had any specific trouble getting this far.
> Second, I would like to invite you to subscribe to the list. There is a
> focussed group working on the current documentation, and your questions
> would be a great help to the project, as it helps us gain insight what the
> most pressing questions of a new user may be.
>
> Now, I'll have a go and suggest one way to display an article (like in Perl,
> There Is More Than One Way To Do It (tm) in Midgard too).
>
> create a subpage under the rootpage, and call it 'artview'.
>
> Enter the following content:
>
> <?
> $getit = mgd_get_article(232);
> ?>
> <h1>&(getit.title);</h1>
> <h3>&(getit.abstract);</h3>
> <p>&(getit.content);</p>
>
> replace 232 by the number (id) of an article you've allready created. After
> submitting, when you access /artview on the midgard host-url you've created,
> you will see title, abstract and content of the article you referred to.
> This is an all too basic example of what you can do, and probably people on
> the list will start replying how much more sophisticated it could be done.
> And believe me, it can.
>
> Do checkout our current manual at http://www.midgard-project.org/manual/.
> You'll find a lot of information there, that will get you going. And please,
> even if you don't join the list, keep us posted of your proceedings, as your
> feedback will be very valuable to our project.
>
> Armand.
>
Thank you for your response! It made some things clearer. I still am I little foggy
though. You said 'create a subpage under the rootpage'. How do I do this. The only
reason I have a root page is because I copied much of the example site style. So my
question is, how do you actually create pages? How do you create directories and
such?
Installation was quite hard. First I downloaded all of the source packages and tried
to install, but some simply would not compile, because of errors in the code. In
another, (mod_midgard I believe), configure died saying it couldn't find the midgard
libs even though I put the path in my ld.so.conf and specified it with --with-midgard=
. I ended up downloading the apache-midgard rpm, which was easy to install, but
configuration was still hard. The configuration was hard not because of midgard, but
because of my lack of experience with apache. After the system was up and running I
have been quite impressed.
Zach Paine
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