[Webteam] Re: Squeakfoundation.org Image issue

[Brad Fuller]

Ken Causey wrote:
> Let's take a step back, I think we are confusing the issue.
>
> Fundamentally all this is needed is for the Squeakfoundation site to be
> accessible from
>
> http://www.squeak.org:7780/
>
> without any further path information like /seaside/SqF/.
>
> I can take care of the rest.
>
> Jason:  Either you or whoever put together the original image for
> www.squeak.org did just this.  Although I don't suppose you were using
> Pier in which case maybe this is not exactly the same thing but I should
> think it is very similar since Pier is built on Seaside (isn't it?).
>
> Well there is one other thing:
>
> There is no reason for Pier/Seaside to be generating full canonical URLs
> for it's internal links like
>
> http://www.squeak.org:7780/seaside/SqF/Donate?...
>
> instead it should simply be filling into the href field
>
> /seaside/SqF/Donate?...
>
> or better yet once we convince it that it's based at '/'
>
> /Donate?...
>
> On the other hand, if we can simply convince it that it's hostname and
> port are www.squeakfoundation.org and 80 then maybe it won't matter.
>   
But, isn't that what we had at the end (before I reset)?  I thought you
were referring to the key being inconsistent across the session.
I'm confused.

> Ken
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 14:04 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
>   
>> Jason Rogers wrote:
>>     
>>> This problem doesn't sound familiar.  Why do the URLs not look right?
>>>       
>> I believe after the "?" in the URL. The specific key that is created for
>> the seaside session?
>> Ken can tell you more. Ken?
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Do you mean that the generated URLs should be
>>> www.squeakfoundation.org/xxxx and not www.squeak.org:7780/xxxx?  If
>>> so, I don't know how to fix it, but I can research it.  I seem to
>>> recall that coming up in the Seaside list several times in the last 2
>>> years or so.
>>>       
>> Yeah, Nevin Pratt just sent a msg about redirection. No answer though.
>>
>>     
>>> Let me know...
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On 10/31/06, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> There were so many emails with different recipients that I'd thought I
>>>> should send another msg out to y'all to summarize the problem.
>>>>
>>>> We originally wanted to move the old squeakfoundation image to box2
>>>> under a new domain name: www.squeakfoundation.org.
>>>> The current SqF content has been copied over to it and it's ready to go
>>>> and be updated by the SqF team. The Pier image is on box2 and in
>>>> /home/website/SqueakFoundation/images/SqF-Pier-1.5.image. The service is
>>>> running on port 7780 (see
>>>> /home/website/SqueakFoundation/serviceSqF/run). You can see it running
>>>> at: http://www.squeak.org:7780/seaside/SqF
>>>>
>>>> However, we have a problem. The problem is that the URLs generated don't
>>>> look correct.
>>>> I set the "Server Hostname" and "Server Port" and that seemed to make a
>>>> difference a bit. But, Ken believes the resulting URLs are wrong. Also,
>>>> I did this at the same time Ken did something else on the apache side.
>>>> So, I reset these so we could do it right.
>>>>
>>>> Ken mentioned that this problem has been identified and fixed before.
>>>> Jason: you may be the person to save us!  Can you help us out?
>>>>
>>>> brad
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>       
>>