Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-web (39 mails)

[Andreas Demmer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Poeml schrieb am Dienstag 16 Dezember 2008:
> I would think that this change happened after we deployed that directory
> on that host, and wouldn't expect a local change. Is this something that
> gets changed through the admin interface as well?

Nope, only "whats_hot.html" files can be changed via the WYSIWYG editor.

> Or is it in fact content that's pulled from news.o.o once in a while,
> and the file therefore receives local changes?

That's correct! A cronjob calls /rss_client/refresh_frontpage_news.php every 
now and then. This little script renders the RSS newsfeed as static HTML 
snippet (/news.html) which is pulled into the website via SSI (server-side 
includes).

> Should it be committed to svn?

No need for that. Even a new checkout would be updated automatically as soon 
as the cronjob calls the refresh-script.

> Does the change propagate to the other servers automatically?

The news.html file resides on www.opensuse.org. I now that two servers are 
used to load-balance the website, but I never noticed that the news section 
was out of sync. So I guess Mike Cronquist made sure that the generation php 
script is either called on oth machines or that the resulting HTML snippet is 
synchronized between them.

Greets,
Andreas

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