Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Wget a Plone site (and make it actually work)
There’s a lot of different resources and posts on the web about how to export a Plone site to static html content, but no methodology would actually solve all of my problems. Now, Plone is inherently a complicated beast, given just how much it does, and that’s definitely putting it lightly. But here goes at my attempt to provide an actual, workable solution. Word for the wise though, this is for more than just your front-end administrator to handle. Also, instructions are designed for Ubuntu 9.10. Mileage may/will vary on other distros or OSes. (more…)
Apache: Directories and trailing slashes
Apache does something interesting (yes, I still think it’s logical) when you’re accessing a directory that it’s serving: if you access it without a trailing slash, it’ll add one by default. This makes sense if you’re going after some static content or a folder index (or pretty much any sane usage) but it didn’t fit my use case of serving Plone using rewrite rules in a .htaccess file. (more…)
Ubuntu: Crackling audio noises on a Dell M1530 (or HDA cards)
The problem I found (so did everyone else) when updating to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic was static/popping noises when your sound card is silent (aka goes into power-save mode). It applies to my Dell XPS M1530 laptop’s on-board sound and probably to the same chipset elsewhere. (more…)
Logged out users can’t bring up the Plone popup calendar
It’s another one of those ’strange’ problems that has cropped up, but by default in Plone, users who aren’t authenticated aren’t actually able to bring up a pop-up calendar on a date field.
It’s amazing that I haven’t run into this issue before with something like PloneFormGen, where you’d think that a simple Date input field would be pretty common. Although, I guess it’s the case that even though I’ve used these given forms, I’ve probably never taken much notice of the popup calendar icon and just selected a random date from the drop-down lists. I suppose entering a random number on they keyboard and hitting tab across the fields 3 times is simpler than going for the mouse. Who knows. (more…)
David tries Plone 4.0a2 (Part 2)
Rightio! So we’ve got Plone 4.0a2 installed and up and running. Boy, she looks sweet:
Plone's new theme