So this is fun. I've been tasked with building a website thats going to not only be hosted, but also sent around on USB keys to various clients. I was planning on using PHP and INCLUDES for the menu and such, but clearly that won't work on some random persons local machine. I thought SHTML too, but that won't work either.
I've tried searching google relentlessly, but I think I might be plugging in the wrong terms because I've found 0 results.
Can anyone make a suggestion that would allow includes to work locally off a USB key? Or at least something similar...
Thanks very much!
Perform your includes before you publish the files. Generate static HTML from templates at build time, not run time.
You can use tools such as ttree for this.
I'm assuming the other machines don't have a local server environment and thats why you cant use PHP. You could use javascript to include other files. A jquery example would be
$.get('file.html').done(function (html) {
$('body').append(html);
});
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i couldn't find any information on google for this so i thought i will just ask this general question.
we are developing a web app for customers who can change colors, fonts and stuff in their account through a simplified CustomDesigner (the name) Tab where they can pick colors from a color picker and fonts from a select-box and all this stuff.
currently all these dynamic changes are written through PHP in the CSS but we are working on a complete redesign and rework of the app and want to use the power of SASS for this.
my question is: is it possible to run ruby on a debian server and everytime a user changes some preferences in their account that ruby will compile the generated sass file or the "changed" variables into a new css file completely automatically?
if yes: how? i couldn't find anything at all about this topic.
if my using-example is not good enough and you can't imagine what i want:
think about the custom-bootstrap-builder, where you can simply change all the stuff from viewport-grid-size, fonts, font-sizes, border-radius and all that kind of stuff, and if you click on "download" it delivers a complete bootstrap version with your preselected preferences and downloads it completely automatically.
the download for my use-case is not necessary, instead i want the server to store that "compiled" file in a specific directory on the server and of course import it to the generated HTML.
after some more research and investing more time i found some "module" for nginx which is capable of processing less/sass/scss server side with nginx/LUA
https://github.com/titpetric/nginx-lesscss
i also found a PHP variant to use
https://github.com/leafo/scssphp/
i couldn't try any of these two, but it looks quite promising and i wanted to share if someone else has the same problem.
A friend has asked me to do some work on his existing site which was built in Rapidweaver. I'm on Windows, so is there another way I can access and edit his site?
The Rapidweaver project file is meant to be edited only in Rapidweaver, really. As far as I know, the only way around would be to use an HTML editor to modify the pages that are already in the server. However, I would not reccomend you to do it unless you are not going back to Rapidweaver anymore. Because changing the files in the server does not update your local Rapidweaver files. So, you could end up editing something in the server, then getting back to Rapidweaver and upload a "new" version that would not be completely up to date (the previous changes in the server version would be overriden by the older rapidweaver project).
For that kind of work, a CMS (Content Management System) is a more flexible way to work. Nowadays, one of the most common is Wordpress. It will require an inicial setup but after it is working it can be updated from anywhere via web browser, or even from an app in your iPhone. But it is not a Rapidweaver based sollution.
There are a couple CMS related plugins or stacks (Dropkick CMS, Armadillo, Easy CMS, Total CMS...) for Rapidweaver that could also be useful in this context. Once again, first you would need to buy a licence and to setup the website using one of those plugins or stacks. Only then you would be able to edit on the go.
A relative asked me to fixed a Joomla website (v2.5.16) who has been hacked last year, probably due to lack of update (is up to date now), unfortunately I have no information about this. The issue is that the front end take 2~ min to load. The administration is loading normally so whatever the issue is, it depend of the front end. I already disabled all modules one by one and switched the template with another one to make sure that thebug is not in template or plugins folders, without success.
I must add that the problem is "probably" more recent than the hack, according to this person. So maybe there was a script somewhere reaching a random server which may not work anymore.
PS : the website is on a shared hosting. I have the FTP access but no ssh.
I know that I don't give any details which can lead to resolve this, but I need more a method to track what can go wrong and where than a solution.
Thanks in advance,
We have written a lengthy post explaining why a website might be slow: http://www.itoctopus.com/20-questions-you-should-be-asking-yourself-if-your-joomla-website-is-slow
From the looks of it, it might that the website is still hacked. Try overwriting the Joomla files with a fresh Joomla install and see if that addresses the problem.
Solving this issue will probably involve some or all of the following:
updating Joomla and all third party extensions to the latest versions
checking for and fixing malicious files using http://myjoomla.com or
https://sucuri.net or similar
analysing the performance of the website using http://gtmetrix.com
(it's free) or similar to pinpoint and fix what is taking the most time to
load
If the website has been hacked, you may need to reset passwords etc once the malicious files have been removed. See https://joomla.stackexchange.com/a/180/120 for more information about securing the website once it is fixed.
I am working on a dynamic site on Joomla!, most of the coding is done in Juni module and component.
I have some dynamic features which I want to test it on my already published site, I fear that if any thing goes wrong by attaching it to the published site.
I want to ask is there any modules of plugins for Joomla! which allows me to test my dynamic functionality on the published site, and Is there any extension to recover my site to previous state(like version control system of my site...)
Where is a quick checklist with what you can do:
The easiest way to play around is to install Joomla! on your own computer where you can test everything without any worries
To get your websites like "versioned" or to have a complete backup, the most used and trusted solution is AkeebaBackup.
My advice would be NOT to play directly with the live website without doing a backup, especially if you are "testing" stuff.
I actually think it makes more sense to test first on a copy that is in the exact same server environment as the live site.
How to test live is always a hard thing, sooner or later you have to do it, but you want to get as much testing done as you can without doing it. Depending on how the feature is being rendered you may be able to use acl to prevent it being rendered to normal users.
I am the web guy for a large TV station. Our site is cached by Akamai. Pages render perfectly in our testing environment (not cached) and on our "origin" page (again, not cached), but when they are viewed on our live environment (the cached site), they do not render exactly the same as how I coded them. Maybe it's a tiny bit of spacing, maybe it's a CSS element (backgrounds especially) not displaying, and worst of all, forget all about floating DIVs. It's insane how much table design I have to do because of the failure to float.
Does anyone else have experience with caching like this? Is there a tool I can use to see the changes in rendering?
There is no one I can go to for support, because the company doesn't believe the problem exists. Please assist if you can.
The site is built on a VB.Net backend that I do not have access to. I only have access to the front end.
I've been working on sites behind Akamai and can honestly say they don't mess with your code, so that's not the issue. It's more than likely one of the following:
You have a cache latency issue - You updated your html and css, and one of the two updated while the other is still cached by Akamai or using timestamps to increment dependent files. There are several solutions here including making sure to clear cache via Akamai's control panel as well as more programmatic ways of coding. Headers can also be used though not really a preferred way.
Absolute URL's - Relative url's are best when testing on multiple environments to ensure your pointing everything to the same environment.
This is definitely an environment issue not an Akamai issue.
Are stylesheets, Javascript files etc all loading correctly from Akamai?
Can you save a copy of a page retrieved directly from your "origin" server and a copy saved using Akamai, then use diff to look for changes?
And, most importantly, have you asked Akamai about it? It's not really a programming question :)
Download all files as static files from development and then from production. And use a tool like WinMerge to see the differences.
Also does this problem go away if you do CTRL-F5 to refresh the browser?
Perhaps Akamaia isn't seeing the updated versions of your CSS files that are <link />'d in your HTML code? It might be a good idea to embed a version number in the URL so that when you release an updated version of the HTML, it's always going to ask Akamai for a new version of the CSS as well (this applies to images as well I suppose).
Theoretically, Akamai should recognize updated caching headers that your web server sends but I've never worked at a job where we didn't have to have some counter-measures in place to make sure that we could force Akamai to refresh its cached version.