Re: [campsite-support] What A Pity
  • > Hi,
    >
    > after seeing Campsite featured on opensourcecms.com I rejoiced,
    > believing that this software finally has been restructured so that a
    > wide public can use it.

    Well, you did not rejoice in vain. Please read on.
    >
    > What a pity that this isn't the case! And what a deception of people
    > who expect, especially from a CMS featured that publicly, to be able
    > to install it on their hosting accounts!
    >
    > You ought to say it clearly that Campsite won't work unless one has
    > at least a VPS. As those come along at prices of minimally 40-50 US$
    > per month Campsite is not nearly as egalitarian and earthroot as it
    > claims to be. Few people short of fullblown ads-sustained publishers
    > have the means to fork over such a sum each month, especially when
    > the published content is of the system and politics-critical sort.

    Campsite can actually be installed on most run cheap hosting setups. I say
    MOST, not each and every, because I have seen people installing it in
    php-cgi environments, but I see you have clearly hit the wall. What you may
    run into difficulties with on certain cheap setups is if you want to use
    Campsite's enterprise features, such as automatic publishing feature which
    makes use of Apache crontabs (though not necessarily, depending on your
    provider's configuration).

    That said, VPS go these days for as little as 12.99 EUR per month (e.g. I
    rent one for my hobby audiolinux.net site at
    http://www.hosteurope.de/produkte/Virtual-Server-Linux).


    > Just for the information, most modern, security-intent hosts run PHP
    > as CGI, have phpsuexec active, refuse command-line interaction from
    > users and scripts are commonly owned by the user himself, not by
    > apache. Users commonly are neither allowed to install additional PHP
    > modules or change server configurations.

    FYI, Campsite files don't have to be owned by apache if the apache user can
    write to these directories. Campsite only needs write access by the apache
    user.

    > I've an ample, fast and well-supported hosting package on a
    > firstclass host. So far I was able to install nearly every script I
    > wanted and never had a problem, except - and that's the "nearly" -
    Campsite.

    Perhaps you can tell this list/forum what are the exact problems you have
    had. Maybe someone will have some solution, or at least we can learn
    something from your experience, and see if that particular problem with
    your particular hosting setup can be removed in the future.

    All the best,

    Sava
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  • Hi,


    > Campsite can actually be installed on most run
    > cheap hosting setups.

    Actually my host isn't cheap any which way, they just run a tight ship.

    > I have seen
    > people installing it in
    > php-cgi environments, but I see you have clearly
    > hit the wall.

    The most common one apparently:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function apache_get_modules() in /home/jm/public_html/install/classes/CampInstallationView.php on line 216

    > your provider's configuration).

    As I wrote: PHP as CGI, phpsuexec active, user is owner of files, not apache, no command line access. It has PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.81.

    > That said, VPS go these days for as little as
    > 12.99 EUR per month (e.g. I
    > rent one for my hobby audiolinux.net site at
    > ).

    China is high on my list of countries where never to host any sites, Germany is nearly as prominent. Additionally that offer is not fully managed, which is what I'd need. A look at their prices for additional services suffices to tell me that one would come to be quite expensive. The lowest cost for a halfway dependable host with fully managed VPS is indeed not under 40$$.

    > Perhaps you can tell this list/forum what are the
    > exact problems you have had.

    See above. The software doesn't even install.

    Cheers,

    Pippa
  • HI,

    Campsite obviously doesn't satisfy your (hardly "egalitarian and
    earthroot") demands at the moment. Sorry about that and good luck with
    other scripts.

    All the best,

    Sava





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    To: campsite-support@campware.org

    Date: 07/17/2009 05:32 PM

    Subject: [Campsite Support] Re: [campsite-support] What A Pity






    Author: pippa
    Link: http://code.campware.org/phorum/read.php?8,7269,7271#msg-7271
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------


    Hi,


    > Campsite can actually be installed on most run
    > cheap hosting setups.

    Actually my host isn't cheap any which way, they just run a tight ship.

    > I have seen
    > people installing it in
    > php-cgi environments, but I see you have clearly
    > hit the wall.

    The most common one apparently:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function apache_get_modules()
    in /home/jm/public_html/install/classes/CampInstallationView.php on line
    216

    > your provider's configuration).

    As I wrote: PHP as CGI, phpsuexec active, user is owner of files, not
    apache, no command line access. It has PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.81.

    > That said, VPS go these days for as little as
    > 12.99 EUR per month (e.g. I
    > rent one for my hobby audiolinux.net site at
    > ).

    China is high on my list of countries where never to host any sites,
    Germany is nearly as prominent. Additionally that offer is not fully
    managed, which is what I'd need. A look at their prices for additional
    services suffices to tell me that one would come to be quite expensive. The
    lowest cost for a halfway dependable host with fully managed VPS is indeed
    not under 40$$.

    > Perhaps you can tell this list/forum what are the
    > exact problems you have had.

    See above. The software doesn't even install.

    Cheers,

    Pippa


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  • These kind of hosting which run PHP as CGI, do not allow you to add modules,
    to set your PHP configuration as you wish are for hobbyists running a blog
    or any kind of simple site.

    Campsite has advanced features which require PHP to run as a module for
    performance reasons. Campsite is a publishing application for medium to
    large publications, not a simple CMS for the home user. In conclusion,
    Campsite will never run on these kind of hostings.

    Mugur

    On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, wrote:

    > Author: pippa
    > Link: http://code.campware.org/phorum/read.php?8,7269,7271#msg-7271
    >
    > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > > Campsite can actually be installed on most run
    > > cheap hosting setups.
    > Actually my host isn't cheap any which way, they just run a tight ship.
    >
    > > I have seen
    > > people installing it in
    > > php-cgi environments, but I see you have clearly
    > > hit the wall.
    > The most common one apparently:
    >
    > Fatal error: Call to undefined function apache_get_modules() in
    > /home/jm/public_html/install/classes/CampInstallationView.php on line 216
    >
    > > your provider's configuration).
    > As I wrote: PHP as CGI, phpsuexec active, user is owner of files, not
    > apache, no command line access. It has PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.81.
    >
    > > That said, VPS go these days for as little as
    > > 12.99 EUR per month (e.g. I
    > > rent one for my hobby audiolinux.net site at
    > > ).
    > China is high on my list of countries where never to host any sites,
    > Germany is nearly as prominent. Additionally that offer is not fully
    > managed, which is what I'd need. A look at their prices for additional
    > services suffices to tell me that one would come to be quite expensive. The
    > lowest cost for a halfway dependable host with fully managed VPS is indeed
    > not under 40$$.
    >
    > > Perhaps you can tell this list/forum what are the
    > > exact problems you have had.
    > See above. The software doesn't even install.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Pippa
    >
    > --
    > Sent from Campware Forums
    > http://code.campware.org/phorum
    >
  • Hi!

    Inspired by Pippa's emails, I just searched for a "Newspaper
    management system for Web Publishing" and you can find many there,
    Campsite included.
    It seems all the others are commercial, most of them restricted into
    the server decided by the software maker.
    But they are alternatives for Campsite and good options to study more
    deeply.

    /Sanna @ Generare

    On 17.7.2009, at 20.05, Mugur Rus wrote:

    > These kind of hosting which run PHP as CGI, do not allow you to add
    > modules, to set your PHP configuration as you wish are for hobbyists
    > running a blog or any kind of simple site.
    >
    > Campsite has advanced features which require PHP to run as a module
    > for performance reasons. Campsite is a publishing application for
    > medium to large publications, not a simple CMS for the home user. In
    > conclusion, Campsite will never run on these kind of hostings.
    >
    > Mugur
    >
    > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, wrote:
    > Author: pippa
    > Link: http://code.campware.org/phorum/read.php?8,7269,7271#msg-7271
    > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > > Campsite can actually be installed on most run
    > > cheap hosting setups.
    > Actually my host isn't cheap any which way, they just run a tight
    > ship.
    >
    > > I have seen
    > > people installing it in
    > > php-cgi environments, but I see you have clearly
    > > hit the wall.
    > The most common one apparently:
    >
    > Fatal error: Call to undefined function apache_get_modules() in /
    > home/jm/public_html/install/classes/CampInstallationView.php on line
    > 216
    >
    > > your provider's configuration).
    > As I wrote: PHP as CGI, phpsuexec active, user is owner of files,
    > not apache, no command line access. It has PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.81.
    >
    > > That said, VPS go these days for as little as
    > > 12.99 EUR per month (e.g. I
    > > rent one for my hobby audiolinux.net site at
    > > ).
    > China is high on my list of countries where never to host any sites,
    > Germany is nearly as prominent. Additionally that offer is not fully
    > managed, which is what I'd need. A look at their prices for
    > additional services suffices to tell me that one would come to be
    > quite expensive. The lowest cost for a halfway dependable host with
    > fully managed VPS is indeed not under 40$$.
    >
    > > Perhaps you can tell this list/forum what are the
    > > exact problems you have had.
    > See above. The software doesn't even install.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Pippa
    >
    > --
    > Sent from Campware Forums
    > http://code.campware.org/phorum
    >
  • Hi,

    if I change the "url name"for all the issues that are the same
    translation, should it work without any extra measures?
    I did change all my issue translations like that and now it shows only
    things in English...

    Sanna
  • Hello,

    can't get the English articles visible anymore and other languages
    actually show first intro of English articles and then when clicking
    may go to that language content.

    Can this be due to changing the "url name" for this issue?

    I tested by making a new issue and I can get its articles visible only
    when putting front page off and section off for the article and then
    asking the template to show those. In normal template I show the
    articles on front page on and section on and it worked before but not
    anymore.

    Error log shows this:
    [Sat Jul 18 19:14:17 2009] [error] [client 89.27.72.54] PHP Notice:
    Trying to get property of non-object in /home/webadmin/
    webserver.customer.fi/html/template_engine/classes/
    CampURIShortNames.php on line 73

    /Sanna

    On 17.7.2009, at 21.16, Generare Management Department wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > if I change the "url name"for all the issues that are the same
    > translation, should it work without any extra measures?
    > I did change all my issue translations like that and now it shows
    > only things in English...
    >
    > Sanna
  • Could you give me details on how did you change the URL name for the issues?
    Exactly what steps did you take?

    Mugur

    On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Generare Management Department <
    management@generare.com> wrote:

    > Hello,
    >
    > can't get the English articles visible anymore and other languages actually
    > show first intro of English articles and then when clicking may go to that
    > language content.
    >
    > Can this be due to changing the "url name" for this issue?
    >
    > I tested by making a new issue and I can get its articles visible only when
    > putting front page off and section off for the article and then asking the
    > template to show those. In normal template I show the articles on front page
    > on and section on and it worked before but not anymore.
    >
    > Error log shows this:
    > [Sat Jul 18 19:14:17 2009] [error] [client 89.27.72.54] PHP Notice: Trying
    > to get property of non-object in /home/webadmin/
    > webserver.customer.fi/html/template_engine/classes/CampURIShortNames.php
    > on line 73
    >
    > /Sanna
    >
    >
    > On 17.7.2009, at 21.16, Generare Management Department wrote:
    >
    > Hi,
    >>
    >> if I change the "url name"for all the issues that are the same
    >> translation, should it work without any extra measures?
    >> I did change all my issue translations like that and now it shows only
    >> things in English...
    >>
    >> Sanna
    >>
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
  • Hi,

    I went to administration, opened the information of issues and changed
    the URL name and saved. Nothing else.
    Now I got also the English ones visible by creating a new separate
    issue (not a translation but with different URL name) and then I
    deleted the this new issue and the ones with the "changed" URL name
    got visible.

    Somehow we have still the other languages not appearing properly but
    that problem may to do with our "mass update" that we made for
    importing the old data from another system. Do you have some kind of
    structural map where we would see what id's, url names etc. are needed
    in order the translation system to work?

    Because I think we got all the languages imported as separate articles
    in the database but it looks like the article id's goes for the same
    article like this for English: en_US/100/845/5912/ and for Swedish
    sv_SE/100/845/5680/
    Shouldn't this "5912" and "5680" be the same number, not too different?
    Is there some other linkage id's that need to be in order to combine
    two articles to be translations of the same article?

    /Sanna


    On 20.7.2009, at 11.42, Mugur Rus wrote:

    > Could you give me details on how did you change the URL name for the
    > issues? Exactly what steps did you take?
    >
    > Mugur
    >
    > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Generare Management Department > > wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > can't get the English articles visible anymore and other languages
    > actually show first intro of English articles and then when clicking
    > may go to that language content.
    >
    > Can this be due to changing the "url name" for this issue?
    >
    > I tested by making a new issue and I can get its articles visible
    > only when putting front page off and section off for the article and
    > then asking the template to show those. In normal template I show
    > the articles on front page on and section on and it worked before
    > but not anymore.
    >
    > Error log shows this:
    > [Sat Jul 18 19:14:17 2009] [error] [client 89.27.72.54] PHP Notice:
    > Trying to get property of non-object in /home/webadmin/
    > webserver.customer.fi/html/template_engine/classes/
    > CampURIShortNames.php on line 73
    >
    > /Sanna
    >
    >
    > On 17.7.2009, at 21.16, Generare Management Department wrote:
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > if I change the "url name"for all the issues that are the same
    > translation, should it work without any extra measures?
    > I did change all my issue translations like that and now it shows
    > only things in English...
    >
    > Sanna
    >
    >
  • It seems you corrupted the database on that mass update. An article has the
    same number regardless of it's translation.

    /en_US/100/845/1234
    and
    /sv_SE/100/845/1234
    refer to the same article, the first in English and the second it's Swedish
    translation.

    /en_US/100/845/1234
    /sv_SE/100/845/5678
    are two completely different articles.

    Mugur

    On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Generare Management Department <
    management@generare.com> wrote:

    > Hi,
    > I went to administration, opened the information of issues and changed the
    > URL name and saved. Nothing else.
    > Now I got also the English ones visible by creating a new separate issue
    > (not a translation but with different URL name) and then I deleted the this
    > new issue and the ones with the "changed" URL name got visible.
    >
    > Somehow we have still the other languages not appearing properly but that
    > problem may to do with our "mass update" that we made for importing the old
    > data from another system. Do you have some kind of structural map where we
    > would see what id's, url names etc. are needed in order the translation
    > system to work?
    >
    > Because I think we got all the languages imported as separate articles in
    > the database but it looks like the article id's goes for the same article
    > like this for English: en_US/100/845/5912/ and for Swedish
    > sv_SE/100/845/5680/
    > Shouldn't this "5912" and "5680" be the same number, not too different?
    > Is there some other linkage id's that need to be in order to combine two
    > articles to be translations of the same article?
    >
    > /Sanna
    >
    >
    > On 20.7.2009, at 11.42, Mugur Rus wrote:
    >
    > Could you give me details on how did you change the URL name for the
    > issues? Exactly what steps did you take?
    >
    > Mugur
    >
    > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Generare Management Department <
    > management@generare.com> wrote:
    >
    >> Hello,
    >>
    >> can't get the English articles visible anymore and other languages
    >> actually show first intro of English articles and then when clicking may go
    >> to that language content.
    >>
    >> Can this be due to changing the "url name" for this issue?
    >>
    >> I tested by making a new issue and I can get its articles visible only
    >> when putting front page off and section off for the article and then asking
    >> the template to show those. In normal template I show the articles on front
    >> page on and section on and it worked before but not anymore.
    >>
    >> Error log shows this:
    >> [Sat Jul 18 19:14:17 2009] [error] [client 89.27.72.54] PHP Notice:
    >> Trying to get property of non-object in /home/webadmin/
    >> webserver.customer.fi/html/template_engine/classes/CampURIShortNames.php
    >> on line 73
    >>
    >> /Sanna
    >>
    >>
    >> On 17.7.2009, at 21.16, Generare Management Department wrote:
    >>
    >> Hi,
    >>>
    >>> if I change the "url name"for all the issues that are the same
    >>> translation, should it work without any extra measures?
    >>> I did change all my issue translations like that and now it shows only
    >>> things in English...
    >>>
    >>> Sanna
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >
    >
    >
    >
  • Exactly!
    Thanks for clarifying this. I'm not happy to be right but I've been
    insisting for our team that it is exactly like you say now.
    Most important is just to get things working.

    I'll put people to work again. Atleast manually it is a huge mess to
    import text by copying and pasting. There are thousands of articles.

    Is it so that all of these have to be the same between translations of
    the same article:
    Number, ShortName, ArticleOrder ?

    Sanna

    On 21.7.2009, at 14.50, Mugur Rus wrote:

    > It seems you corrupted the database on that mass update. An article
    > has the same number regardless of it's translation.
    >
    > /en_US/100/845/1234
    > and
    > /sv_SE/100/845/1234
    > refer to the same article, the first in English and the second it's
    > Swedish translation.
    >
    > /en_US/100/845/1234
    > /sv_SE/100/845/5678
    > are two completely different articles.
    >
    > Mugur
    >
    > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Generare Management Department > > wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I went to administration, opened the information of issues and
    > changed the URL name and saved. Nothing else.
    > Now I got also the English ones visible by creating a new separate
    > issue (not a translation but with different URL name) and then I
    > deleted the this new issue and the ones with the "changed" URL name
    > got visible.
    >
    > Somehow we have still the other languages not appearing properly but
    > that problem may to do with our "mass update" that we made for
    > importing the old data from another system. Do you have some kind of
    > structural map where we would see what id's, url names etc. are
    > needed in order the translation system to work?
    >
    > Because I think we got all the languages imported as separate
    > articles in the database but it looks like the article id's goes for
    > the same article like this for English: en_US/100/845/5912/ and for
    > Swedish sv_SE/100/845/5680/
    > Shouldn't this "5912" and "5680" be the same number, not too
    > different?
    > Is there some other linkage id's that need to be in order to combine
    > two articles to be translations of the same article?
    >
    > /Sanna
    >
    >
    > On 20.7.2009, at 11.42, Mugur Rus wrote:
    >
    >> Could you give me details on how did you change the URL name for
    >> the issues? Exactly what steps did you take?
    >>
    >> Mugur
    >>
    >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Generare Management Department >> > wrote:
    >> Hello,
    >>
    >> can't get the English articles visible anymore and other languages
    >> actually show first intro of English articles and then when
    >> clicking may go to that language content.
    >>
    >> Can this be due to changing the "url name" for this issue?
    >>
    >> I tested by making a new issue and I can get its articles visible
    >> only when putting front page off and section off for the article
    >> and then asking the template to show those. In normal template I
    >> show the articles on front page on and section on and it worked
    >> before but not anymore.
    >>
    >> Error log shows this:
    >> [Sat Jul 18 19:14:17 2009] [error] [client 89.27.72.54] PHP
    >> Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/webadmin/
    >> webserver.customer.fi/html/template_engine/classes/
    >> CampURIShortNames.php on line 73
    >>
    >> /Sanna
    >>
    >>
    >> On 17.7.2009, at 21.16, Generare Management Department wrote:
    >>
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> if I change the "url name"for all the issues that are the same
    >> translation, should it work without any extra measures?
    >> I did change all my issue translations like that and now it shows
    >> only things in English...
    >>
    >> Sanna
    >>
    >>
    >
    >
  • You can also import articles through XML files. You could write a script to
    export the existing articles from the current application into an XML file.
    Then just import the file. See this link for details:
    http://trac.campware.org/campsite/wiki/XMLImport

    The article number must be the same between translations, the other can take
    any value. Usually the ArticleOrder has the same value between translations
    an it would be logical to be this way, but it's not mandatory.

    The ShortName can take different values in different translations. The only
    constraint is that the short name must be unique in the section: there can't
    be two articles with the same short name in a section. By section I refer to
    a translation of a certain section. E.g.: section number 10 in English. So
    the short name "1000" must be unique in the section 10, English translation.
    But the same short name "1000" can be used in the section 10, Swedish
    translation.

    Mugur


    On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Generare Management Department <
    management@generare.com> wrote:

    > Exactly!Thanks for clarifying this. I'm not happy to be right but I've
    > been insisting for our team that it is exactly like you say now.
    > Most important is just to get things working.
    >
    > I'll put people to work again. Atleast manually it is a huge mess to import
    > text by copying and pasting. There are thousands of articles.
    >
    > Is it so that all of these have to be the same between translations of the
    > same article:
    > Number, ShortName, ArticleOrder ?
    >
    > Sanna
    >
    > On 21.7.2009, at 14.50, Mugur Rus wrote:
    >
    > It seems you corrupted the database on that mass update. An article has the
    > same number regardless of it's translation.
    >
    > /en_US/100/845/1234
    > and
    > /sv_SE/100/845/1234
    > refer to the same article, the first in English and the second it's Swedish
    > translation.
    >
    > /en_US/100/845/1234
    > /sv_SE/100/845/5678
    > are two completely different articles.
    >
    > Mugur
    >
    > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Generare Management Department <
    > management@generare.com> wrote:
    >
    >> Hi,
    >> I went to administration, opened the information of issues and changed the
    >> URL name and saved. Nothing else.
    >> Now I got also the English ones visible by creating a new separate issue
    >> (not a translation but with different URL name) and then I deleted the this
    >> new issue and the ones with the "changed" URL name got visible.
    >>
    >> Somehow we have still the other languages not appearing properly but that
    >> problem may to do with our "mass update" that we made for importing the old
    >> data from another system. Do you have some kind of structural map where we
    >> would see what id's, url names etc. are needed in order the translation
    >> system to work?
    >>
    >> Because I think we got all the languages imported as separate articles in
    >> the database but it looks like the article id's goes for the same article
    >> like this for English: en_US/100/845/5912/ and for Swedish
    >> sv_SE/100/845/5680/
    >> Shouldn't this "5912" and "5680" be the same number, not too different?
    >> Is there some other linkage id's that need to be in order to combine two
    >> articles to be translations of the same article?
    >>
    >> /Sanna
    >>
    >>
    >> On 20.7.2009, at 11.42, Mugur Rus wrote:
    >>
    >> Could you give me details on how did you change the URL name for the
    >> issues? Exactly what steps did you take?
    >>
    >> Mugur
    >>
    >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Generare Management Department <
    >> management@generare.com> wrote:
    >>
    >>> Hello,
    >>>
    >>> can't get the English articles visible anymore and other languages
    >>> actually show first intro of English articles and then when clicking may go
    >>> to that language content.
    >>>
    >>> Can this be due to changing the "url name" for this issue?
    >>>
    >>> I tested by making a new issue and I can get its articles visible only
    >>> when putting front page off and section off for the article and then asking
    >>> the template to show those. In normal template I show the articles on front
    >>> page on and section on and it worked before but not anymore.
    >>>
    >>> Error log shows this:
    >>> [Sat Jul 18 19:14:17 2009] [error] [client 89.27.72.54] PHP Notice:
    >>> Trying to get property of non-object in /home/webadmin/
    >>> webserver.customer.fi/html/template_engine/classes/CampURIShortNames.php
    >>> on line 73
    >>>
    >>> /Sanna
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> On 17.7.2009, at 21.16, Generare Management Department wrote:
    >>>
    >>> Hi,
    >>>>
    >>>> if I change the "url name"for all the issues that are the same
    >>>> translation, should it work without any extra measures?
    >>>> I did change all my issue translations like that and now it shows only
    >>>> things in English...
    >>>>
    >>>> Sanna
    >>>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >
    >
    >
  • Hi!

    Yes,
    I think I got it. Thanks a lot!
    This lacking of the proper old articles has been hindering our
    templating as well because it is hard to test with "fake" articles how
    things should look. It has been a long project...

    We looked XML import as well but the problem is that the previous
    application was very old and kind of broken and the old database is a
    collection of merged old databases... so you can see the mess!
    But tonight we'll put a corrected database dump built with a tailored
    perl script and let's see what happens then. I hope we'll smile. Smile

    Sanna

    On 21.7.2009, at 17.59, Mugur Rus wrote:

    > You can also import articles through XML files. You could write a
    > script to export the existing articles from the current application
    > into an XML file. Then just import the file. See this link for
    > details:
    > http://trac.campware.org/campsite/wiki/XMLImport
    >
    > The article number must be the same between translations, the other
    > can take any value. Usually the ArticleOrder has the same value
    > between translations an it would be logical to be this way, but it's
    > not mandatory.
    >
    > The ShortName can take different values in different translations.
    > The only constraint is that the short name must be unique in the
    > section: there can't be two articles with the same short name in a
    > section. By section I refer to a translation of a certain section.
    > E.g.: section number 10 in English. So the short name "1000" must be
    > unique in the section 10, English translation. But the same short
    > name "1000" can be used in the section 10, Swedish translation.
    >
    > Mugur
    >
    >
    > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Generare Management Department > > wrote:
    > Exactly!
    > Thanks for clarifying this. I'm not happy to be right but I've been
    > insisting for our team that it is exactly like you say now.
    > Most important is just to get things working.
    >
    > I'll put people to work again. Atleast manually it is a huge mess to
    > import text by copying and pasting. There are thousands of articles.
    >
    > Is it so that all of these have to be the same between translations
    > of the same article:
    > Number, ShortName, ArticleOrder ?
    >
    > Sanna
    >
    > On 21.7.2009, at 14.50, Mugur Rus wrote:
    >
    >> It seems you corrupted the database on that mass update. An article
    >> has the same number regardless of it's translation.
    >>
    >> /en_US/100/845/1234
    >> and
    >> /sv_SE/100/845/1234
    >> refer to the same article, the first in English and the second it's
    >> Swedish translation.
    >>
    >> /en_US/100/845/1234
    >> /sv_SE/100/845/5678
    >> are two completely different articles.
    >>
    >> Mugur
    >>
    >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Generare Management Department >> > wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> I went to administration, opened the information of issues and
    >> changed the URL name and saved. Nothing else.
    >> Now I got also the English ones visible by creating a new separate
    >> issue (not a translation but with different URL name) and then I
    >> deleted the this new issue and the ones with the "changed" URL name
    >> got visible.
    >>
    >> Somehow we have still the other languages not appearing properly
    >> but that problem may to do with our "mass update" that we made for
    >> importing the old data from another system. Do you have some kind
    >> of structural map where we would see what id's, url names etc. are
    >> needed in order the translation system to work?
    >>
    >> Because I think we got all the languages imported as separate
    >> articles in the database but it looks like the article id's goes
    >> for the same article like this for English: en_US/100/845/5912/ and
    >> for Swedish sv_SE/100/845/5680/
    >> Shouldn't this "5912" and "5680" be the same number, not too
    >> different?
    >> Is there some other linkage id's that need to be in order to
    >> combine two articles to be translations of the same article?
    >>
    >> /Sanna
    >>
    >>
    >> On 20.7.2009, at 11.42, Mugur Rus wrote:
    >>
    >>> Could you give me details on how did you change the URL name for
    >>> the issues? Exactly what steps did you take?
    >>>
    >>> Mugur
    >>>
    >>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Generare Management Department >>> > wrote:
    >>> Hello,
    >>>
    >>> can't get the English articles visible anymore and other languages
    >>> actually show first intro of English articles and then when
    >>> clicking may go to that language content.
    >>>
    >>> Can this be due to changing the "url name" for this issue?
    >>>
    >>> I tested by making a new issue and I can get its articles visible
    >>> only when putting front page off and section off for the article
    >>> and then asking the template to show those. In normal template I
    >>> show the articles on front page on and section on and it worked
    >>> before but not anymore.
    >>>
    >>> Error log shows this:
    >>> [Sat Jul 18 19:14:17 2009] [error] [client 89.27.72.54] PHP
    >>> Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/webadmin/
    >>> webserver.customer.fi/html/template_engine/classes/
    >>> CampURIShortNames.php on line 73
    >>>
    >>> /Sanna
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> On 17.7.2009, at 21.16, Generare Management Department wrote:
    >>>
    >>> Hi,
    >>>
    >>> if I change the "url name"for all the issues that are the same
    >>> translation, should it work without any extra measures?
    >>> I did change all my issue translations like that and now it shows
    >>> only things in English...
    >>>
    >>> Sanna
    >>>
    >>>