I have a website that used to have .dsp file extensions for all pages. There are alot of other sites referencing mine that reference the pages like that, but my pages are all actually .aspx pages. In IIS5, I was able to configure this to work.
My problem is I've recently switched from IIS5 to IIS7, and I have no idea how to map these requests (.dsp) to the real file (.aspx) without the server telling me the file doesn't exist.
In the IIS go to Handler Mappings under you website/application/vdir and add a new managed handler.
Tell you extension (.dsp) and the Executable (in this case the same of asp.net which is %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll for ASP.NET 2.0 64 bits).
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I'm trying to make a hybrid python-js application with cefpython.
I would like to have:
JS and HTML files local to the cef python app (e.g. in './html', './js', etc)
Load one of the HTML files as the initial page
Avoid any CORS issues with files accessing each other (e.g. between directories)
The following seems to work to load the first page:
browser = cef.CreateBrowserSync(url='file:///html/index.html',
window_title="Rulr 2.0")
However, I then hit CORS issues.
Do I need to run a webserver also? Or is there an effective pattern for working with local files?
Try passing "disable-web-security" switch to cef.Initialize or set BrowserSettings.web_security_disabled.
Try also setting BrowserSettings.file_access_from_file_urls_allowed and BrowserSettings.universal_access_from_file_urls_allowed.
There are a few options in CEF for loading custom content and that can be used to load filesystem content without any security restrictions. There is a resource handler, a scheme handler and a resource manager. In CEF Python only resource handler is currently available. There is the wxpython-response.py example on README-Examples.md page.
Resource manager is a very easy API for loading various content, it is to be implemented in Issue #418 (PR is welcome):
https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython/issues/418
For scheme handler see Issue #50:
https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython/issues/50
Additionally there is also GetResourceResponseFilter in upstream CEF which is an easier option than resource handler, to be implemented via Issue #229:
https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython/issues/229
You could also run an internal web server inside your app (easy to do with Python) and serve files that way. Upstream CEF also has a built-in web server functionality, however I don't think this will be exposed in cefpython, as it's already easy to set up web server in Python.
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 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....
I'm running into this problem and its driving me crazy.
Also, we are not allowed to update the version of IIS.
The content on the server (asmx files holding WCF webmethods called via SOAP) exists and I can freely browse in inetmgr to the virtual directory that contains this data. The files all exist all on the file system and the virtual directories all point to the correct spot and have the correct ACLS, but when I go to their URLs all I get is a 404 message.
I have reset IIS, I have rebooted the server, and I have done everything I can think of.
The IIS logs simple return "404 - -" as the entire line contents, with no other data in the line.
The event logs show nothing, and ASPNET is not dying or anything like that.
With no event logs, and minimal logs in IIS , I have no idea what to do and was hoping that others had run into this before.
In IIS logs there should some codes along side the 404 error which will help find the issue.
Check IIS has the correct version of .Net installed using aspnet_regiis command line tool. Also check that ASMX extensions are mapped to the .Net ISAPI filter as they are with ASPX pages.
The company I work for has proxies/WAN accelerators between our international sites to cache Intranet web content. I have a Silverlight application being hosted on a server at one location, but being accessed by clients in another location. When the users access the web page hosting the Silverlight app, they get the stale xap file being cached by the proxy and not the latest version from the server. Local users always get the latest xap as their requests are not going through a proxy.
I've tried the various header/metadata techniques mentioned elsewhere to prevent caching, and the containing web page itself is being served up fresh, but I still get the old .xap file. Short of getting our IT admin to disable proxy caching for my site, is there anything I can do make sure the latest xap file get retrieved from the server instead of the proxy? The containing page is ASP.NET.
What I do is just add a querystring at the end of the path to the xap file. Then when you change the querystring variable, the proxies etc. should see it as a request to a new file. So far this has worked fine for me.
So basically, when embedding an .xap in a straight-up HTML file, you would do this:
<param name="source" value="ClientBin/SilverlightApplication1.xap?cachepreventer=whatevervalue"/>
And then when you deploy a new version, just change "whatevervalue" to something else.
EDIT
If you need to use this technique in many places in your app I would read the querystring value from config and just write it to the page using asp.net. That way you only need to update it in one place when you deploy.
If you want to make sure every time the xap file is retrieved and you don't want to worry about it - just use
<param name="source" value="ClientBin/YourSilverlightapp.xap?<%=Guid.NewGuid().ToString() %>"/>
of course - this lends itself to a heavier cache load. I do like the helper method above though if you only want changes to be propagated to the client.