[opencms-dev] difference between publishing "/" and publishing"/sites/default"????

[Mick Knutson]

That is the explaination I was looking for... Thanks heaps!

On 1/5/07, Jonathan Woods <jonathan.woods at scintillance.com> wrote:
>
>  When you say you published "/", do you mean you set the Site dropdown to
> "/" then clicked "Publish project"?  If so, that might explain what you saw.
>
> The "Publish project" button does just that - it publishes the project
> shown in the *Project* dropdown, and the Site dropdown isn't relevant.
> Whatever its setting, you are publishing the whole of the project (usually
> the Offline project).  However, when you are logged in, then the Site
> dropdown *does* determine which site is rendered (i.e.: which VFS root
> path is used) when your browser visits a URL under the OpenCms server's
> control.
>
> Generally you need to make sure the site dropdown reads "/sites/default/"
> in order to see the site whose content you've been creating; having it set
> to "/" and visiting e.g. the root (URL /) causes OpenCms to try to render
> VFS resource /index.html or /index.jsp - and in general these simply don't
> exist, leading to the blank browser page I imagine you saw.  Setting the
> site dropdown to "/sites/default/" means a visit to / causes OpenCms to look
> for /sites/default/index.html etc.
>
> This isn't an issue for non-logged-in visitors.  In this case, the config
> file opencms-system.xml defines which VFS root is to be used.
>
> Jon
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* sfdbfoui at host2.scintillance.com [mailto:
> sfdbfoui at host2.scintillance.com] *On Behalf Of *Mick Knutson
> *Sent:* 05 January 2007 18:19
> *To:* The OpenCms mailing list
> *Subject:* [opencms-dev] difference between publishing "/" and
> publishing"/sites/default"????
>
> I published "/" and everything stopped working. Then I re-published
> "/sites/default" and everything was fine again.
> What is the difference?
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> DJ MICK
>
> (Mick Knutson)
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Thanks

DJ MICK

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