I have a Jekyll site running on Heroku.
After site generation, I have a file created public/photos.html. How do I set up Jekyll/Heroku to allow me to access the page as domain.com/photos instead of domain.com/photos.html?
And I'd prefer NOT to have to use rack-rewrite which stands up rack middleware. Seems a bit much for this.
Thanks!
Simplest way is to just name the file photos/index.html instead of photos.html. If that doesn't work for you, you can use the variable permalink in the Front Matter.
You can do route matching in Sinatra and serve whatever pages you like, see: http://www.sinatrarb.com/intro.html
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I have moved a website from heroku to another provider. Lets say its custom domain is www.mysite.org. It was also at mysite.herokuapp.com, although we never really used that domain, Google has indexed some pages there. I want to redirect any requests mysite.herokuapp.com/[EVERYTHING] to www.mysite.org/[EVERYTHING]. The paths are otherwise compatible. I am told Heroku does not allow you to use an .htaccess file. I've deleted the mysite project on Heroku but could create a new one thats a simple php page or something else?
I'm sure this has been asked before, i've looked but find either too little or too much information and none seems to answer my question. Thanks.
I wonder whether there's an easy way to add Basic HTTP Authentication to a Middleman deployed website? I found some Heroku specific gists, but nothing else.
The Heroku specific gists all seem to need a config.ru file, but do Middleman projects even have such a file? Mine don't.
config.ru is not specific to Middleman or Heroku, but is a convention for serving a rack-based app (see https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rack). If you want to have basic auth on a static site that you have built using middleman and then deployed, you will need to set it up in a way that's appropriate to that hosting. Where are you hosting the site?
Ok, I am brand new to ruby and Sinatra and I am embarrassed to say I cannot for the life of me find out how to use a link tag in Sinatra. I just need to link, from my index.erb, to a static page, about.html. About is not working. How can I do this? Thanks a lot!
I think you're looking for something like:
About
You're going to want to locate this about.html file in the /public folder of your application.
If you want to overwrite using that location for another one, you can do so with :public_folder and is fairly well described at: http://www.sinatrarb.com/configuration.html
I hope that helps.
For early development, I typically build out a static version of the site. Previously I'd use PHP and have something like...
images
javascripts
stylesheets
templates
-- header.php
-- footer.php
index.php
users.php
And the index.php and users.php would have some basic PHP include code for those header and footer files.
I also got the added benefit of being able to use a few PHP functions.
But I haven't used PHP for anything in ages and use Ruby almost exclusively...so I'm wondering, is there a way to pull off something really basic like this in Ruby?
Primarily looking for something that allows me to:
Do basic file includes (so I can create simple templates)
Run Ruby inside the files
Ideally I could also use LiveReload with it.
Additional details: I'm running this locally on OS X and I typically use Pow as a server.
Peter is right to recommend Sinatra. There are typically two types of Sinatra applications. Modular and classical. For your example, I'll create a classical application. It isn't much work to convert it to a modular if you find that style would better fit your needs.
You'll want to install the gem with gem install sinatra. Create a new directory for your project and two new files as follows:
# app.rb
require 'sinatra'
get '/' do
erb :index
end
# config.ru
require './app'
run Sinatra::Application
Create another directory called views and add this file:
# index.erb
Hello World!
Then type ruby app.rb and viola, you now have a working project on localhost:4567/.
To serve static files like css and js, just create a public directory. From there, any file will be able to accessed after the root url. So if you created a css folder, its respective url would be: yourdomain.com/css/styles.css.
So the entire directory would be as folllows:
app/
app.rb
config.ru
public/
css/
js/
images/
views/
index.erb
Between the Sinatra Book and the read me, you should be able to find all the info you need.
To accomplish the templates, you'll need something called Sinatra Partial.
I'm not too familiar LiveReload but it seems like Compass accomplishes the same thing and has great integration with Sinatra. So long as pow is a rack based, you should have no problem using it.
Here is a Sinatra Bootstrap I use for all my projects. It has Compass and Sinatra Partial preconfigured and makes it really easy to deploy with Heroku. It also uses Slim, Coffeescript, Thin (as the server), Twitter Bootstrap and Sass but it shouldn't be too much work to sub that with your respective favorites or remove them all together.
I gifted my girlfriend a website with her domain name, I chose Jekyll for the job which uses RubyGems for the purpose.
It was easy and fun. Moreover you have lots of themes available which you can configure with .YML files just changing there will work for hole site. Although Linux or Mac OS is suggested by official Jekyll website but i did it in windows which was not much of a problem. They have steps defined for working on windows on their website.
http://jekyllrb.com/
The best part was that i could host the website via the git hub pages only. I didn't have to buy anything. Git hub allows you to host one repo. (funFact : Jekyll was developed by github inventor)
That's the one i used and made the website in 20 hours with no prior knowledge of Ruby and Jekyll.
So i will suggest you check it out!
Perhaps Jekyll will fit the bill?
Its description:
Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a
template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it
through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a
complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your
favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages,
which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from
GitHub
Yes, i use Sinatra for this, see https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/ for some samples.
Running ruby inside the files isn't very static but in Sinatra you can do both.
Jekyll won't leave you run Ruby code "inside" the files. Jekyll is a parsing engine bundled as a ruby gem. You basically code templates using HTML and Liquid and write content using markdown that gets embebed generating plain HTML files that you can upload to any web server.
How do I go about doing the following:
I have a main domain at say http://www.domainname.com
and a another site at http://www.domainname.com/billing/
When loading knowledgebase articles it loads with http://www.domainname.com/billing/knowledgebase.php
I want it to load the content but make it look like it's coming from
http://www.domainname.com/knowledgebase.php
In otherwords anything when I load
http://www.domainname.com/knowledgebase.php*
it should load the content that exists at /billing/knowledgebase.php*
Possible?
It can be achieved with the .htaccess file and the use of mod_rewrite, however I know what you're trying to achieve, and from personal experience I'd say to stop while you're ahead, if you want a root based WHMCS install, then delete it all and start again, by installing WHMCS in the root, rather than a sub-directory. Although WHMCS says to install itself in a sub-directory, a lot of people treat it like a CMS, and as such really want it to be the homepage and content manager of the whole site.