The PAD spec (http://pad.asp-software.org/spec/spec.php) defines the download URL as follows:
URL ftp or http:// + 2-120 characters with extension exe, zip, or other
And the regex pattern used is:
^((http|ftp):\/\/.{2,120}\.(air|apk|app|bin|com|exe|dmg|hqx|gz|g
zip|jar|msi|rar|sea|sh|sis|sit|sitx|tar|taz|tgx|tgz|uu|z|zip))?\
What happens if the download url does not have extensions listed above?
My site has a download page where the php script tracks each software download. If I provide a link to just the binary I lose the ability to track downloads. On the other hand I'm not sure what happens if the PAD file is not to spec.
Why not handle the download via a RewriteRule that forwards a given directory stub to your PHP script? This will be transparent to the caller and allow you to do whatever you want in your script.
For example:
RewriteRule \A/downloads/((?!\.php).)*$ /downloads/index.php [L]
You could then access the requested URL (and hence derive the required file, etc.) via $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
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I've taken on the webmaster role for a website that uses DNN version 07.02.02. Most of the links to my pdf files are broken. They pdfs were in a folder called "/pdfs" now they're in a new folder "/docs/pdfs "
A few quick things:
I only have ftp access to the web site files. No access to web.config so rewrite rules are out.
I don't want to copy the old files back to "/pdfs" because it would mean managing two different pdf copies (there are over 500 pdfs).
Using file directories with a .pdf extension then add an index.asp file with a redirect i.e. "/pdfs/file_1001.pdf/index.asp" led to an error page because there's an override which doesn't allow site directory pages exposed.
Using a DNN module where I'd have to enter 500 files to redirect seems redundant when I only want to move a directory.
Any solutions to try?
In DNN if you have HOST level access you can modify Config files through the Host/Configuration manager page.
There you could modify the web.config file.
You might also look at the siteurls.config file (also accessible there) in which you could define some URL rules, might be as easy as
<RewriterRule>
<LookFor>/pdf/(.*)</LookFor>
<SendTo>/docs/pdf/$1</SendTo>
</RewriterRule>
The above rule is completely untested, not positive if it will do what you need or not.
I did a little more testing, and it looks like this won't work out of the box as a default setting that tells it to NOT rewrite PDF files, but I can't find the source code for that currently.
This is probably easy for people who deal with these regularly, but I'm not sure what kind of code I will need to use to achieve what I want to. I know how to redirect individual URLs to other URLs, but when it comes to redirecting multiple at once I can't do it.
Basically I set up my site structure kinda bad when I built my website. I have a bunch of URLs named:
crafting-alchemist-level-1-10.php
all in the root directory, where alchemist-level-1-10 is the page name and crafting is the site section. I have about 50 of these URLs and I would like to put them all in a /crafting directory with the crafting- cut off the file names.
I could do this individually but there must be a way to do all with a single line. Is there?
These URL redirects need to be compatible with any parameters after the .php too.
Use mod_rewrite in your .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ $1-$2-$3.php
For more information (you will need to customize it a bit):
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/intro.html#regex
EDIT
This will rewrite one/two/three to one-two-three.php.
I'm creating an org-mode file that uses org-info.js to provide dynamic folding of exported HTML.
If I open the resulting HTML in a browser, I can copy the URL and paste it into an email that others can access by clicking but only if it's the top-level point on the page (no internal page target).
If I try opening a URL that points to an internal link (file:....#sec-2, for example), I get a "General failure. The URL was: .... The system cannot find the path specified." Deleting the "#sec-2" part of the link allows it to work just fine.
FWIW, I'm using org-mode 7.5 and the online version of org-info.js.
Is there a way to have this work?
Incidentally, the URL looks like file://fully/qualified/path/name.html (or name.html#sec-2) in the browser. When I add it as a hyperlink to a bit of text in Outlook (yes, I know; I use Gnus elsewhere), it transforms it into \fully\qualified\path\name.html. The lack of the file: and the / to \ doesn't seem to matter; the #target does matter.
The root of the site http://example.com correctly identifies index.html and renders it. In a similar manner, I want, http://example.com/foo to fetch foo.html present in the root of the directory. The site that uses this functionality is www.zachholman.com. I've seen his code in Github. But still I'm not able to find how it is done. Please help.
This feature is actually available in Jekyll. Just add the following line to your _config.yml:
permalink: pretty
This will enable links to posts and pages without .html extension, e.g.
/about/ instead of /about.html
/YYYY/MM/DD/my-first-post/ instead of YYYY-MM-DD-my-first-post.html
However, you lose the ability to customize permalinks... and the trailing slash is pretty ugly.
Edit: The trailing slash seems to be there by design
It's actually the server that needs adjusting, not jekyll. Be default, jekyll is going to produces files with .html extensions. There may be a way around that, but it's unlikely that you really want to do go that route. Instead, you need to let your web server know that you want those files served when a URL is called with the file's basename (and no extension).
If your site is served via an Apache web server you can enable the "MultiViews" option. In most cases, you can do that be creating an .htaccess file at your site root with the following line:
Options +MultiViews
With this option enabled, when Apache receives a request for:
http://example.com/foo
It will serve the file:
/foo.html
Note that the Apache server must be setup to allow the option to be set in the htaccess file. If not, you would need to do it in the Apache config file itself. If your site is hosted on another web server, you'll need to look for an equivalent setting.
I want to use a dynamic email signature in Thunderbird, that is context aware (depends on date, events in db, etc.)
If I have a PHP that can generate the signature html (i.e. http://www.site.com/email_sign.php)
how do I force Thunderbird to use it?
(the only options I see are using static html (whether inline, of from a local system file).
any ideas?
You can use the Signature Switch add-on and a batch file calling wget to achieve what you want. I wrote a simple executable to replace the bat file; you can read about it (and download it if you want to) from http://www.else.co.nz/portfolio/020-code/dynamic-email-signatures
I doubt you can do this simply. Thunderbird does allow scripting via the creation of plugins but I wouldn't personally know how do do it or how easy it might be.
Best answer I can think of would be to set a scheduled task / cron job to download the php to a local file then follow the instructions in the knowledge base, namely:
You can use Thunderbird to create signature files, or you can use your operating system tools to create them—for example, a plain text editor.
Thunderbird does not provide any
special place to store signature
files. You could create a Signatures
directory in your profile to store
them, making them easy to back up
along with the rest of your profile.
Or you could store them somewhere
else.
To use a signature file, specify it in
Account Settings as the signature for
an identity. Check the box "Attach the
signature from a file instead" and
specify the signature file.
This will work unless Thunderbird caches the HTML internally, however I see no indication in the FAQ that this is the case.
For years I updated the signature for my email client manually – until I got fed up… That’s why I wrote a PHP script to create a randomized signature block automatically from an RSS feed! Check it out: https://github.com/birdy1976/signature :-D