[opencms-dev] Static Export to Two Web Servers

Michael Moossen m.moossen at alkacon.com
Wed Aug 3 09:31:22 CEST 2005


Hi, Saranyu

read this:
http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/development/cvs.html

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Regards
Michael Moossen
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts

http://www.alkacon.com



Quoting Saranyu Lavanyakul <saranyu at cmu.edu>:

> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks for the fast response.
> I am really new to this. I wonder what do you mean for "cvs head" ?
> Sorry if this is a dumb question.
> Thanks
> 
> Saranyu L.
> 
> 
> Michael Moossen wrote:
> 
> >Hi, Saranyu!
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I tried to setup the static export to be able to export the content to 
> >>two web servers according to the path of the content.
> >>Right now I am totally blank on how to do it.
> >>    
> >>
> >the static export feature has been extended after the 6.0 final release to
> >simplify that.
> >
> >check out the cvs head and see the new definition of the
> >opencms-importexport.xml
> >
> >----
> >OpenCms Static-Export Advanced Features
> >
> >After the OpenCms 6.0.0 Release, several improvements have been made to the
> >Static Export feature:
> >
> >    * Real File System Rules (general improvement)
> >      Until now, you could specify a set of settings for the static export,
> like
> ><rfs-prefix>, <exportpath> and <userelativelinks>, which were global
> settings
> >and you had no possibility to have different settings for different
> resource
> >sets. The idea of the rfs-rules is to complement this global settings,
> being
> >able to specify different settings for different resource sets.
> >    * Export Rules (AfterPublish/Full static export specific new feature)
> >      An export rule let you specify a set of resources to export if a
> modified
> >resource matches a set of rules. And the main idea behind it, is to
> optimize
> >the needed time used to do an static export after publish. Until now, every
> >time a resource has been published, OpenCms mades a static export of all
> >resources in the vfs! (at least all resources matched by the <regex>
> patterns
> >in the <resourcetorender> node) since there was no possibility to know the
> >dependencies of a file. So, this new feature lets OpenCms know which are
> the
> >dependencies of a set of resources.
> >
> >This new features as also all the other configuration settings for the
> Static
> >Export should be given in the
> >${CONTEXT_NAME}/WEB-INF/config/opencms-importexport.xml configuration file.
> >
> >Some general issues you have to be aware of when static exporting a site:
> >
> >    * No form of dinamic interaction with the user can be static exported,
> like
> >contact forms or search functions. If need such functionallity use an
> hibrid
> >solution with the On-Demand export feature, how to use this feature is
> detailed
> >in the com.alkacon.documentation.howto_httpd_tomcat_modproxy documentation
> >module.
> >    * Dinamic pages and resources, i.e. JSP pages with parameters for
> generating
> >images, or style sheets, or what ever, can be statically exported using the
> >CmsJspActionElement.link(String) method or the <cms:link> tag given to it
> the
> >whole path with all parameters, when referencing it. For instance:
> >      new CmsJspActionElement.link(pageContext,
>
>request,response).link("/system/modules/mytemplate/style.css?param1=value1&param2=value2")
> >      And things like:
> >      new CmsJspActionElement.link(pageContext, request,
> >response).link("/system/modules/mytemplate/style.css") +
> >"?param1=value1&param2=value2"
> >      will not work, because the parameters are not encoded.
> >    * You will also have troubles when using javascript to display pages,
> >because you have no access to the CmsJspActionElement.link(String) method,
> so
> >do not do that.
> >    * Be also sure the Export user had at least permission to read the
> resources
> >to export.
> >    * Do not forget to configure your export url correctly, it should be
> >something like http://127.0.0.1:8080/${CONTEXT_NAME}/handle404.
> >    * You can also mark a resource as internal so it will not be exported,
> this
> >can be done in the Secure/Export dialog.
> >    * In apache is important to configure the DirectoryIndex option so that
> the
> >index_export.html files are also view as default directory content.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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