On Thu, 2005-26-05 at 12:16 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > > ... > > >>I've worked with the svn version of Forrest and I'd like to share some > >>comments on my experience so far. > > > > > > Oh thank you. That is exactly what we need - feedback. > > Also people testing 0.7-dev is helping to create a better release. > > I also want to thank you, this is a very valuable contribution to the > development of Forrest. > > >>2. My site.xml file has the following: > >> > >><files> > >>... > >><eventos href="eventos/index.html"/> > >></files> > >> > >>However, <a href="site:eventos" /> is rendered as the link > >>http://sello-propio.com/eventos/ which you can see in the front > >>page. Where did the "index.html" part go? This is annoying > >>because while testing the site in my local hard drive (with > >>URLs like file:///path/to/build/site) these links give me > >>the list of files in the directory instead of the "index.html" > >>file I am expecting. > >> > >>Basically, there seems to be the implicit assumption that the > >>web server will always figure out that index.html is the file > >>that has to be rendered. This is not always the case. In particular > >>several "embedded" web server don't have this logic built in > >>and require a explicit mention of the target file. > > > > > > I wonder if this FAQ would address that issue: > > http://forrest.apache.org/0.7/docs/faq.html#defaultStartPage > > This is a different issue, That FAQ is about changing the default page > used if none is defined in the URL. In this case the page to be used > has been defined in the HREF and therefore should be included in the link. > > However, I have never seen this before, and a fresh-seed site shows that > this functionality works correctly. Do: > > mkdir fresh > cd fresh > forrest seed > forrest run > http://localhost:8888/samples/linking.html#site > > Note the links in this section, they correctly link to the named page, > for example: > > <a href="site:faq">site:faq</a> > > generates the link: > > http://localhost:8888/samples/faq.html > > > Do you have another element in your site.xml called "eventos", that > could be getting in the way? >
Thanks! you got it. There is a tab called "eventos" as well. Removing this duplication fixes the problemm. > If you change the site.xml entry to <eventos > href="eventos/testing.html"/> what is the resultant link? > > > >>4. You will notice that the date in the top right of the pages is > >>the current date/time as of the moment you click to see each page. > >>This is supposed to be the "Published" date instead! (I removed > >>the "Publicado", in Spanish, because it is simply not working). > >> > >>The server serving the pages doesn't have Java available. Could this > >>be the reason why I get this weird behaviour? > > > > > > Perhaps there is a problem with your web server. When i request > > HEAD of that document, it shows that there is no "Last-Modified" > > header in the response. > > To be clear, the last published time is taken from the LAST-MODIFIED > header, if it is not present the current date/time is used. Note that it > *should* be present, this is a config problem on your server. > As I said before, I have no control over the web server. But I'd like to know what exactly is needed there to get this feature working. Maybe I can convince someone to do it :| > Once again, thanks for your feedback. Being made aware of these issues > is how we try and make sure Forrest works for everyone as intended. > Without this feedback the devs cannot do their job properly. For all > those lurkers here, you can contribute to Forrest directly simply by > providing feedback like this. > I glad to see this is helpful. I will continue working with 0.7-dev and would let you know how it goes. BTW, understanding the menu generation thing was not trivial. There's a few things the docs fail to mention. I'll try to put them in some good wording later this week. -- Pedro > Ross
