That is the explaination I was looking for... Thanks heaps!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Woods</b> <<a href="mailto:jonathan.woods@scintillance.com">jonathan.woods@scintillance.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">The "Publish project" button does just that - it publishes
the project shown in the <em>Project</em> 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 <em>does</em> 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.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Jon</font></span><br></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:sfdbfoui@host2.scintillance.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sfdbfoui@host2.scintillance.com</a>
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Knutson<br><b>Sent:</b> 05 January 2007 18:19<br><b>To:</b> The OpenCms mailing
list<br><b>Subject:</b> [opencms-dev] difference between publishing "/" and
publishing"/sites/default"????<br></font><br></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10ff39e8a9b82ad1_1">
<div></div>I published "/" and everything stopped working. Then I re-published
"/sites/default" and everything was fine again.<br>What is the difference?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thanks<br><br>DJ MICK <br><br>(Mick Knutson) <br><a href="http://www.djmick.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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