Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-29 Thread Alex Tweedly
Bill Marriott wrote: Hi Alex, Actually, you can. If you get the latest on-Rev client, you'll notice a drop-down menu in the upper-right, "on-Rev Project." This menu lists the sites you can edit. This list is drawn from the /.ireviam/sites.txt file on the server. Just edit this file and you'

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-28 Thread Bill Marriott
Hi Alex, Actually, you can. If you get the latest on-Rev client, you'll notice a drop-down menu in the upper-right, "on-Rev Project." This menu lists the sites you can edit. This list is drawn from the /.ireviam/sites.txt file on the server. Just edit this file and you'll be able to access th

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-26 Thread Alex Tweedly
Bill Marriott wrote: Jacque, This was the default location where JaguarPC put them, and I assume is how it needs to be set up. It's the default location but it does *not* need to be that way whatsoever and both will work just fine. In fact, there is an issue where putting it within

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Marriott wrote: Jacque, This was the default location where JaguarPC put them, and I assume is how it needs to be set up. It's the default location but it does *not* need to be that way whatsoever and both will work just fine. Ok, that's good to know. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-23 Thread Bill Marriott
Jacque, > This was the default location where JaguarPC put them, and I assume is how > it needs to be set up. It's the default location but it does *not* need to be that way whatsoever and both will work just fine. In fact, there is an issue where putting it within the public_html folder will

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-22 Thread Jerry J
On May 22, 2009, at 5:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I suspect there is little difference between a subdomain and an add- on, and that cpanel only uses the different terminology to configure the server so it knows where requests are to be sent. I'd just leave the folders where they are create

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Thanks for this Bill. I just have one more question: I have troz.on-rev.com and when I FTP to the root folder, I see various folders: public_html, public_ftp, mail etc. My on-rev test web site files are all in the public_html folder. So if I want to transfer my troz.net dom

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Marriott wrote: If the content will ultimately be it's own domain and not a subdomain, then I would put the folder at the not, and not within the /public_html hierarchy. I have both a subdomain and an add-on domain at JaguarPC, in addition to my primary hyperactivesw.com domain. Both the

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-22 Thread Bill Marriott
If the content will ultimately be it's own domain and not a subdomain, then I would put the folder at the not, and not within the /public_html hierarchy. "Sarah Reichelt" wrote in message news:f99b52860905221521h4f6e9bccgb64e113ad7315...@mail.gmail.com... > But how do you "change a sub-d

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-22 Thread Alex Tweedly
Bill Marriott wrote: Alex, But how do you "change a sub-domain to an AddOn domain" ? Suppose you want to eventually host mydomain.com with on-Rev: 1) Create a subdomain, mydomain.user.on-rev.com 2) Point it to a folder, mydomain, in your account 3) Test away 4) When you're satisf

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-22 Thread Sarah Reichelt
But how do you "change a sub-domain to an AddOn domain" ? > > Suppose you want to eventually host mydomain.com with on-Rev: > > 1) Create a subdomain, mydomain.user.on-rev.com > 2) Point it to a folder, mydomain, in your account > 3) Test away > 4) When you're satisfied, point your nameservers

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-21 Thread Bill Marriott
Alex, >>> But how do you "change a sub-domain to an AddOn domain" ? Suppose you want to eventually host mydomain.com with on-Rev: 1) Create a subdomain, mydomain.user.on-rev.com 2) Point it to a folder, mydomain, in your account 3) Test away 4) When you're satisfied, point your nameservers for m

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-21 Thread Jerry J
On May 21, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I think you can; it certainly seems to allow that, but I get an error message, and the addon domain is not configured, so I can't tell for sure. (But then, I get pretty much the same error just trying to create an addon domain with its own

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> I think you can; it certainly seems to allow that, but I get an error > message, and the addon domain is not configured, so I can't tell for sure. > (But then, I get pretty much the same error just trying to create an addon > domain with its own folder). > > What I get is: >> >> Error from park w

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
Sarah Reichelt wrote: [...] wanted to test it out before changing the DNS entries. I created a sub-domain "troz.troz.on-rev.com" so I could migrate my site & test it, before changing it to an AddOn domain and altering the DNS. So the question was quite precise how do you "change a s

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
>> [...] wanted to test it out before changing the DNS entries. >> I created a sub-domain "troz.troz.on-rev.com" so I could migrate my >> site & test it, before changing it to an AddOn domain and altering the >> DNS. > > So the question was quite precise  how do you "change a sub-domain to > a

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-21 Thread Jerry J
You use the cPanel to AddOn your domain. If you haven't changed the DNS yet, nothing will happen to your old site, and the AddOn routine will complain that the DNS is wrong (which is OK, thats what you are trying to do!) The AddOn routine does everything else correctly. Then you move your s

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
Marty Knapp wrote: Hey Alex, You'll need to register a domain name with a registrar - many people here have recommended GoDaddy, which is what I use. Let's say you register "alextweedly.com" Then you edit the Nameserver setting with the registrar so that it points to On-Rev with the info that

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-20 Thread Bill Marriott
Right, Marty. And let me point out one other aspect When you get your on-Rev account, you'll have a default folder set up for your initial user.on-rev.com subdomain. When you create the "add-on" domain in the control panel, you'll be able to specify this folder, or a new folder, or any exis

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-20 Thread Marty Knapp
Hey Alex, You'll need to register a domain name with a registrar - many people here have recommended GoDaddy, which is what I use. Let's say you register "alextweedly.com" Then you edit the Nameserver setting with the registrar so that it points to On-Rev with the info that On-Rev provides, w

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-05-20 Thread Alex Tweedly
Sarah Reichelt wrote: I have signed up as troz.on-rev.com. I own the domain troz.net and plan to re-locate it's hosting, but I wanted to test it out before changing the DNS entries. I created a sub-domain "troz.troz.on-rev.com" so I could migrate my site & test it, before changing it to an AddOn

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-23 Thread Heather Nagey
Yes, they should be reported. You have two venues to report bugs and ask for features. You can email b...@on-rev.com, or you can post to the on-rev forum: http://forums.on-rev.com We're monitoring both at the moment. A major reason for going out with on-rev now is precisely to get this kin

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-22 Thread Alex Tweedly
I've been trying to use the irev tool "onrev" from Windows. I know it's only an alpha, so I won't complain but I'm not sure whether to report problems, or missing (essential) features (or even missing "would-be-nice" features). Anyone know if the should be reported ? if so, where ? Tha

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-21 Thread Kay C Lan
Thanks Chipp, Martin, Sarah and Bill (for an extremely comprehensive answer) for opening up my understanding. Starting to get excited :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> So that only leaves the multiple email accounts. Will I be able to create > cluel...@kaylan.on-rev.com and neoph...@kaylan.on-rev.com PLUS (assuming > I've paid GoDaddy) i...@kaylan.com, l...@kaylan.com supp...@kaylan.com etc - > all created/administered at on-rev? Yes. Once you sign up, you get

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> Perhaps this will make it easier to understand. When you first sign-up to > on-rev you'll have to specify a sub-domain you want. Say you use the > subdomain "kaylan" so your domain access for accessing your server will > looklike kaylan.on-rev.com. That's the only subdomain you'll have for the >

Subdomains (was: Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev)

2009-04-21 Thread Bill Marriott
Kay, > I get one Main domain name and unlimited Sub domains, so if I sign up with > lan.on-rev.com I can subsequently create kc.lan.on-rev.com and > dj.lan.on-rev.com. I just want to confirm that Sub domains are added to > the > left - seems important when picking a name. - Yes, when you buy an

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-21 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > > Using CNAMEs, you can create all sorts of subdomains for kaylan.com such > as: > www.kaylan.com and blog.kaylan.com and labs.kaylan.com and shop.kaylan.com > > And you can do the same for all your domains you point to their servers. > > Ma

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-21 Thread Chipp Walters
Kay, Perhaps this will make it easier to understand. When you first sign-up to on-rev you'll have to specify a sub-domain you want. Say you use the subdomain "kaylan" so your domain access for accessing your server will looklike kaylan.on-rev.com. That's the only subdomain you'll have for the on-re

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-21 Thread Martin Baxter
Kay C Lan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Kay C Lan >> wrote: >> >>> OK, I've had time to sift through all the advise, and again, thanks to >>> everyone for the responses. So now just to confirm I'm not lost, just >>> befuddled

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-20 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Kay C Lan > wrote: > > > OK, I've had time to sift through all the advise, and again, thanks to > > everyone for the responses. So now just to confirm I'm not lost, just > > befuddled; > > > > I get one Main

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-20 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > > While it has nothing to do with on-rev, for this purpose I recommend > dyndns.org. > Get a free account with them and then you can register your wife's > computer or your home network's public address so that it has a name > e.g. lan.dynd

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-20 Thread Chipp Walters
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > OK, I've had time to sift through all the advise, and again, thanks to > everyone for the responses. So now just to confirm I'm not lost, just > befuddled; > > I get one Main domain name and unlimited Sub domains, so if I sign up with > lan.on-r

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-20 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> A possible use I have for Rev Server Scripting Language, I like to try and > sync my iCal with my wife's computer when I'm away, but not having a fixed > IP address it is impossible unless I have her on the phone telling here > exactly what I need. I'm hoping I could create a Rev Standalone that

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-20 Thread Kay C Lan
OK, I've had time to sift through all the advise, and again, thanks to everyone for the responses. So now just to confirm I'm not lost, just befuddled; I get one Main domain name and unlimited Sub domains, so if I sign up with lan.on-rev.com I can subsequently create kc.lan.on-rev.com and dj.lan.o

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Graham Samuel wrote: Just to thank you, Jacque, belatedly - I also have never had to produce a web site in anger (I don't count uploads of family photos and the like) and felt just like Joe. Chipp was very tactful in suggesting that "some" people confused server-side and client-side scripting

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-20 Thread Graham Samuel
Just to thank you, Jacque, belatedly - I also have never had to produce a web site in anger (I don't count uploads of family photos and the like) and felt just like Joe. What I suppose this conversation does show is the enormous range of users (developers) who can and do benefit from Rev -

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-18 Thread Mark Swindell
Shut yer gob yer fat get, or I kick your face in. -John Lennon (In His Own Write) On Apr 18, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Gob - british english slang (probably from gaelic) for mouth Best, Mark On 19 Apr 2009, at 02:55, J. Landman Gay wrote: Jerry J wrote: From: "J. Landman Gay

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-18 Thread Mark Smith
Gob - british english slang (probably from gaelic) for mouth Best, Mark On 19 Apr 2009, at 02:55, J. Landman Gay wrote: Jerry J wrote: From: "J. Landman Gay" For me, I haven't seen such a cool thing since I was gobsmacked by the ability to run a stack from a remote server in one lin

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jerry J wrote: From: "J. Landman Gay" For me, I haven't seen such a cool thing since I was gobsmacked by the ability to run a stack from a remote server in one line of script. I just checked - gobsmacked.com is not available. 8-/ I learned that word from Susan Boyle. -- Jacqueline Landman

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-18 Thread Jerry J
From: "J. Landman Gay" For me, I haven't seen such a cool thing since I was gobsmacked by the ability to run a stack from a remote server in one line of script. I just checked - gobsmacked.com is not available. 8-/ -- Jerry J ___ use-revolution ma

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-18 Thread Jim Ault
On Apr 18, 2009, at 2:29 AM, Ian Wood wrote: If I've been reading the On-Rev FAQ/examples correctly, no - it would be possible to embed On-Rev pages within iframes in pages hosted on other servers. http://samples.on-rev.com/iframe.irev I'm not that up to date on iframes, but I think that

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-18 Thread Ian Wood
On 18 Apr 2009, at 02:51, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Thank you for the timely, informative explanation. This does mean that on-rev has to be the hosting site for the webpages, however, does it not? In other words, a client could not hire one of us to create a website that they plan to run on

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-18 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Thank you very much Jacque for these clear explanations. If building web pages in On-Rev is really just building stacks as I do now then yes, that's a very nice progress. Up to now, I mainly use and feed 2 sites but which were built by friends of mine; I am myself not at all knowledgeable i

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Kay C Lan
I just wanted to quickly pass on my thanks to the many people who've posted their thoughts. I've been busy so I didn't want people to think I was rude for not replying to their responses, I've only just now got 5 min to sit at a computer before I have to hit the grindstone again. Hopefully on Mond

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread -= JB =-
Thanks for the info Jacque. It really explains a lot I didn't know. -=>JB<=- On Apr 17, 2009, at 6:21 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: I have found this whole subject so far over my head that I'm embarrassed. Can anyone sight some sort of reference that just "might" ge

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Jaqui, I don't want anyone to miss this. I had just spent about two weeks learning JavaScript for exactly the reasons you've just cited. (smile) Thank you for the timely, informative explanation. This does mean that on-rev has to be the hosting site for the webpages, however, does it n

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: I have found this whole subject so far over my head that I'm embarrassed. Can anyone sight some sort of reference that just "might" get me off of my desktop. I am s uneducated on this topic. Simply stated, what's this for, why is it needed and what does it let us d

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Nicolas Cueto
About Dreamhost and On-Rev, in case someone's wavering between the two. Rev-cgi work is an important element of my business. And I have been relying for 2 - 3 years now on Dreamhost (and another webhost before that). However I have decided to switch to On-Rev. In part because of the price, but mo

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread stephen barncard
A billion people speaking esperanto? - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/4/17 Joe Lewis Wilkins > Isn't English the craziest language in the world? You've just hit on one of > my pet peeves. In programming we call it "overloading" I think. In Engli

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Isn't English the craziest language in the world? You've just hit on one of my pet peeves. In programming we call it "overloading" I think. In English it is just plain stupid and something I wish we'd get away from some day. Fat chance. JW On Apr 17, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Le 17 avr. 09 à 21:56, Joe Lewis Wilkins a écrit : Hi all, I have found this whole subject so far over my head that I'm embarrassed. Can anyone sight some sort of reference that just "might" get me off of my desktop. I am s uneducated on this topic. Simply stated, what's this for, wh

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Colin Holgate
On Apr 17, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Obviously, I meant "cite" instead of "sight", though I thought it made sense at the time. You'd like someone to cite some information that would explain why catching sight of a site on on-rev would be a good thing? __

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Obviously, I meant "cite" instead of "sight", though I thought it made sense at the time. JW On Apr 17, 2009, at 1:04 PM, -= JB =- wrote: On Apr 17, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi all, I have found this whole subject so far over my head that I'm embarrassed. Can anyone s

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread -= JB =-
I have never had a website so it is all new to me. -=>JB<=- On Apr 17, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi all, I have found this whole subject so far over my head that I'm embarrassed. Can anyone sight some sort of reference that just "might" get me off of my desktop. I am s

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi all, I have found this whole subject so far over my head that I'm embarrassed. Can anyone sight some sort of reference that just "might" get me off of my desktop. I am s uneducated on this topic. Simply stated, what's this for, why is it needed and what does it let us do that we ca

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Kay, Here at Altuit (Chris and I), we have a bit of everything, JaquarPC (like DreamHost) for Rev cgi's, our own half rack of equipment at the data centere DataFoundry, and some other 'niche' server ISP's like Screencast.com. Sorry, we don't use MobileMe or iPhones, (prefer to use Google's own s

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread runrev260805
Hi, i was considering about extending my web package here at a german isp, just before the On-Rev offer jumped in. At the moment i am paying 130,--Euros for a 5GB Hosting Package with unlimited Subdomains, 1000 Domains (yearly domain fees not included),100 FTP-Accounts, 1000 Pop3 Accounts, 10

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lynn Fredricks wrote: On the other hand, I think its very problematic that they will ever go out of their way to support Revolution, and they will never be the experts at Revolution that Runtime will. It should always be the case that the maker of a technology knows it best; I'd be concerned

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Luis
Hiya, On-Rev has PostgreSQL and MySQL: Will Valentina be up there too?... Cheers, Luis. On 17 Apr 2009, at 14:54, Lynn Fredricks wrote: I know that a few here recommend Dreamhost. At the moment the only deficiencies that I've noted from a quick scan is that on-Rev doesn't list QuickTime/Rea

RE: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> I know that a few here recommend Dreamhost. At the moment the > only deficiencies that I've noted from a quick scan is that > on-Rev doesn't list QuickTime/RealAudio support, but I get > the impression that such holes will be filled rapidly. > > I'm probably not the prime target for on-Rev, b

Re: [OT] Opinions about On-Rev

2009-04-17 Thread Bill Marriott
Kay, I know I'm not an unbiased source but I just wanted to point out that beyond your basic email and web space, (actually I think MobileMe is killing web pages) there is almost no comparison between MobileMe and on-Rev. I mean, I guess you could say that on-Rev is a MobileMe for Revolution us