I would like to accesss the sitecore DB and items from console application like
Sitecore.Data.Database db = Sitecore.Context.Database
or
Sitecore.Data.Database db = Sitecore.Data.Database.GetDatabase("master")
how do I configure and setup my console application to access the DB as above?
Thanks Everyone for the suggestion, I am really interested in config changes, I used webservice, but it has very limited methods. For example, if I would like create an Item with the template and insert the item with prepopulated value, there is no such option. The reason I am looking for the console apporach is I would like to import the contents from XML or excel sheet and push those to the sitecore tree, eventually use the scheduled task to run the console app periodically. I do not want to copy the entire web.config and app_config. If anyone has already done this, could you please post your steps and necessary config changes?
You have two options I think:
1) Import the Sitecore bits of a website's web.config into your console application's app.config, so that the Sitecore API "just works"
I'm sure I read a blog post about this, but I can't find the reference right now. (I will have another look) But I think the simple but long winded approach is to copy all of the <sitecore/> element and all the separate files it references. I'm fairly sure you can whittle this down to a subset of the config required for data access with a bit of thinking.
2) Don't use the Sitecore API directly, connect to a web service that exposes access to it remotely.
There are a few of these that already exist. Sitecore itself exposes one, Sitecore Rocks has one, and Hedgehog TDS has one too. And you can always write your own (since any web service running inside the Sitecore ASP.Net app can make database calls and report values back and forth - just remember to consider security if this web service might end up exposed externally for any reason)
John West links to some relevant stuff here:
http://www.sitecore.net/Learn/Blogs/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2013/09/Getting-Data-Out-of-the-Sitecore-ASPNET-CMS.aspx
-- Edited to add --
I've not found the blog post I remember. But I came across this SO thread:
Accessing Sitecore API from a CLI tool
which refers to this blog post:
http://www.experimentsincode.com/?p=232
which I think gives the info you'll need for option 1.
(And it reminds me that, of course, when you copy the config stuff you have to copy the Sitecore binaries into your app's folder as well)
I would just like to expand on #JermDavis' post and note that Sitecore isn't a big fan of being accessed when not in a web application. However, if you still want to do this, you will need to make sure that you have all of the necessary configuration settings from the web.config and App_Config of your site in your console application's app.config file.
Moreover, you will never be able to call Sitecore.Context in a console application, as the Sitecore Context sits on top of the HttpContext which means that it must be an application and have a valid request for you to use it. What you are looking for is something more along the lines of Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDatabase("master").
Good luck and happy coding :)
This sounds like a job for the Sitecore Item Web API. I use the Sitecore Item Web API whenever I need to access Sitecore data from the master database outside the context of the Content Management server or outside of the context of the Sitecore application. The Web API definitely does not allow you to do everything that the standard Sitecore API does but it can act as a good base and I now extend upon the Web API instead of writing my own custom web services whenever possible.
Thanks to JemDavis's advise.
After I copied the configuration and made changes to config section to get rid of conflicts. I copied almost all of Sitrecore, analytics and lucene dlls, it worked great.
Only thing you have to remember is, copy the app_config folder to the same location where your dlls are.
Thanks again JemDavis....
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Migrating wordpress sites between hosts can take a lot of time, especially when the hosting platforms are different.
I have been trying to migrate my sites from Cpanel to Mediatemple, but it seems like im just not getting it right.
There is various options
Use the guide they provide
https://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/1556/Migrating+your+websites+to+the+Grid#gs
When moving the files in this way the permissions of the files are not set properly and I would have to got back through them and figure out which ones need to change.
The database export from PHPMyAdmin also does not look the same it looks in the screenshot
Using InfiniteWP
To use InfiniteWP you must provide the url of the site and since I dont want to change the DNS until the site is moved this option does not seems to be ideal.
This option might work if its ok for the sites to be unavailable for a day or so while the DNS resolves...
But I don't want the sites to be unavailable
Using Mediatemples "one click apps" to install wordpress and then moving only the files that are unique to the site from the old host to the new host.
I would like to use this option
I think that the content of the WP-Content folder needs to be moved that the database needs to be moved.
My question is
- what folders and files in a standard wordpress install typically hardly ever changes from one site to the other.
- can I use the wordpress database export and import function to move the database from one site to the other.
Any help will be appreciated
Thank you
With InfiniteWP, you can use the clone an existing site command (which can be found in "Tool"->"Install / Clone WP") to migrate a site to a new server.
You have to use a temporary (sub)domain pointing to the new server.
To answer your questions :
/wp-content/ stores all your files and sometimes plugin files, wp-config.php is where your configuration is stored (e.g. credentials to access the database). Depending on your servers, the .htaccess files may be different.
I would recommend to create a dump file of your entire database using phpMyAdmin.
I'm still new to Liferay and using Liferay 6.2
what i'm doing:
I am trying to add a document manually into my database using insert statement.
I inserted into dlfileentry, dlfileversion and AssertEntry.
Also, i created a folder with the valid name and file.
The issue:
upon entering the Documents and Media portlet, i can see the document name there but when i click on checkout, it will prompt a error saying that Documents and Media is temporarily unavailable. however i am still able to download the valid document.
Am i doing something wrong? Personally, i feel that i am missing one more table for the database but i'm not sure .
Thanks!
Yes, you're doing something wrong: You should never write to Liferay's database with SQL, as there might be more data required than what's directly visible to you. Obviously, you're running into exactly such an issue.
Liferay has an API which you can use locally, from within the same application server, or remotely as JSON or SOAP service. You should exclusively use this for write access to the database.
Alternatively, you might consider WebDAV access to your document repository as the way to add more documents to the document library.
I added a DataContract to my service and tried updating the service reference to get access to that DataContract. But it never showed up in the intellisense. I cleaned and built the project and then updated the service reference, but it still didn't work.
I then published it to the server and updated the service reference so it would point to the server, but I get the same thing. I browsed the service through IIS and opened my service in the browser.
I clicked the top link that had Service.svc?wsdl to see if my DataContract was there. An old MessageContract was there, but the DataContract was not.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong here?
Delete the currently deployed service binaries and verify that the service is inaccessible. Then deploy the new service binaries. This is to verify you're actually deploying to the correct location.
It is also possible that the service binaries aren't being rebuilt. To verify this, delete your bin folder (located next to your project file generally) and issue a rebuild, then follow the first steps.
I got my answer from here.
Only the types actually used by the service will be reflected in the metadata.
I didn't have an operation contract that used the DataContract. I didn't need to have one at the time, so I didn't make it. But apparently, unless you have one that uses it, the metadata won't be generated for that DataContract.
I have a situation that override my knowledge. Here is situation:
A simple web based system store a Word files. Users create them locally, then upload them to server. After that, another user can download, edit and upload again. All that is okay, but that steps of repeating Download/Upload cause troubles - in case when user forgot to upload after he make changes. The prerequisites is that they want to use only Word, so i can't use any web editors like CKEditor or Google Documents.
So - a question - is there a way to let users open/save that DOC files with Word without setting a VPN?
Server is a Windows 2008, and language is ASP.NET / classicASP. User access system via browsers.
I think you can embed a plugin called aceoffix in your web system, if the customers do not have to download, upload and save back to server. With aceoffix they can edit online and save back to the server directly. It is exactly the same interface as MS Office. Hope this will be helpful.
How about a tiny app (on clients) to act as a syncronizer (using FTP) ?
I think an embedded Word viewer would be something quite complex to pull off - especially if they require the native, proper and exact Word look/menus.
One alternative is to provide a plugin to your users, where they can access/sync documents directly from/to the server. But then you aren't using the a web site but a local plugin, which comes with its own headaches of course.
Creating a Word plugin is a nice way to make it seem like something "in the Office program" when you have actually created it yourself, so that your user don't have to feel like they are using another program. My idea is that you could create a way for users to load a Word file from the server, do changes to it and then upload them back to the server automatically.
I'm working on building a Silverlight application whereas we want to be able to have a client hit a url like:
http://{client}.domain.com/
and login, where the {client} part is their business name. so for example, google's would be:
http://google.domain.com/
What I was wondering was if anyone has been able, in silverlight, to be able to use this subdomain model to make decisions on the call to the web server so that you can switch to a specific database to run a query? Unfortunately, it's something that is quite necessary for the project, as we are trying to make it easy for their employees to get their company specific information for our software.
Wouldn't it work to put the service on a specific subdomain itself, such as wcf.example.com, and then setup a cross domain policy file on the service to allow it to access it?
As long as this would work you could just load the silverlight in the proper subdomain and then pass that subdomain to your service and let it do its thing.
Some examples of this below:
Silverlight Cross Domain Services
Silverlight Cross Domain Policy Helpers
On the server side you can check the HTTP 1.1 Host header to see how the user came to your server and do the necessary customization based on that.
I think you cannot do this with Silverlight alone, I know you cannot do this without problems with Javascript, Ajax etc. . That is because a sub domain is - for security reasons - treated otherwise than a sub-page by the browsers.
What about the following idea: Insert a rewrite rule to your web server software. So if http://google.domain.com is called, the web server itself rewrites the URL to something like http://www.domain.com/google/ (or better: http://www.domain.com/customers/google/). Would that help?
Georgi:
That would help if it would be static, but alas, it's going to all be dynamic. My hope was to have 1x deployment for the application, and to use the http://google.domain.com/ idea to switch to the correct database for the user. I recall doing this once when we built an asp.net website, using the domain context to figure out what skin to use, etc.
Ates: Can you explain more about what you are saying... sounds like you are close to what I am trying to come up with. Have you seen such a tutorial for this?
The only other way I have come up with to make this work is to have a metabase that when the user logs in, it will switch them to the appropriate database as required... was just thinking as well that telling Client x to hit:
http://ClientX.domain.com/ would have been sweeter than saying to hit http://www.domain.com/ and login. It seemed as if they were to hit their name, and to show it personalized for them right from the login screen would have been much more appealing for the client base.
#Richard B: No, I can't think of any such tutorial that I've seen before. I'll try to be more verbose.
The server-side approach in more detail:
Direct *.example.com to the same IP in your DNS settings.
The backend app that handles login checks the Host HTTP header (e.g. the "HTTP_HOST" server variable in some platforms). That would contain the exact subdomain.example.com that the client used for reaching your server. Extract the subdomain part and continue...
There can also be a client-side-only approach. I don't know much about Silverlight but I'm assuming that you should be able to interface Silverlight with JavaScript. You could read document.location with JavaScript and pass it to your Silverlight applet, whereon further data fetching etc. logic would rely on the subdomain that was passed in by JavaScript.
#Ates:
That is what we did when we wrote the ASP.Net system... we pushed a slew of *.example.com hosts against the web server, and handled using the HTTP headers. The hold-up comes when dealing with WCF pushing the info between the client and the server... it can only exist in one domain...
So, for example, when you have {client}.example.com and {sandbox}.example.com, the WCF service can't be registered to both. It also cannot be registered to just *.example.com or example.com, so that's where the catch 22 is coming in at. everything else I have the prior knowledge of handling.
I recall a method by which an application can "spoof" another domain name in certain instances. I take it in this case, I would need to do such a configuration? Much to research yet I believe.