[opencms-dev] folders/files starting with dot in 9.0.1 ?

[Christoph Kukulies]

Am 21.08.2014 um 16:18 schrieb Schliemann, Kai:
> Hi Chris,
> have a look at the documentation PDF shipped with OpenCms. It is a great document which explains a lot about the new page structure since OpenCms 8 and gives an overview of usable cms:xx tags for developers (and much more).
> If you prefer to read it in German, I may suggest the translation of the documentation shipped with OpenCms 8.5.1: http://www.comundus.com/export/sites/default/downloads/opencms/OpenCms_8_5_1_Handbuch_v1_2_DEUTSCH.pdf
>
> HTH
> Best regards
> Kai
>
>
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> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. August 2014 16:00
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> Betreff: [opencms-dev] folders/files starting with dot in 9.0.1 ?
>
> During browsing through the 9.0.1 demos I found a couple of folders/files in the VFS starting with "." (dot), e.g. .content, .config.
> What's the magic behind this? Reminds of unix files starting with .
> designating a hidden file.
>
>
Hi Kai,

great to know that OpenCMS now comes with a documentation PDF. Indeed I 
overlooked it when unpacking. I had expected to find the usual combo
of history.txt  install.html  license.txt :) and went ahead deploying 
the .war file.

Although the new features of OpenCMS look fine and appealing, the 
document does not answer my question about the files starting with ".".

I'm not sure whether I will use the new features to build a web site. 
Looks like the people at Alkacon put much effort into giving OpenCMS 
more features of
modern CMS systems to build websites, and for quite a while OpenCMS 
seemed to lag a bit behind  what other CMSs were offering (Wordpress, 
Contao, Joomla),
OTOH I'm glad to have sticked with OpenCMS all the time, alone looking 
at the security leaks that all these PHP based CMSs had to suffer from 
during the past.

At present I construct a web site e.g. using YAML, but the CSS into my 
frontend modules, and design the JSPs to inject the columns, navigation 
etc. into the pages.

But I'm getting carried away.

Let's come back to the question of the meaning of the dot-files. :)



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