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color=#0000ff 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>
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color=#0000ff 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>
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color=#0000ff 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>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=593404218-05012007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff 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>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=593404218-05012007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Jon</FONT></SPAN><BR></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> sfdbfoui@host2.scintillance.com
[mailto:sfdbfoui@host2.scintillance.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Mick
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></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
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