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#1 2006-03-17 10:50:04
- sevans2626
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A Couple of questions
Hi
I am new to textpattern and need a bit of advice.
1) Is it possible to create a duplicate site of a current website and host it on an alternative server? Allowing the client to play with the styles etc before he makes them live? Or is there another way this can be accomplished?
Also
2) In the files section under content is it possible to create an archive feature that will enable my client to store files that are not necesarily needed any more?
Many thanks in advance
Apologies if these are obvious questions or in the wrong section of the forum.
Sam
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#2 2006-03-17 12:17:53
- alexandra
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Re: A Couple of questions
1) how about setting up a local testdrive with XAMPP, seems more approbiate to me if someone wants to just play around with TXP.
2) yes it is – just a side note: your files should not be bigger than 2MB (i think it was 2 MB) otherwise php restricts upload and you have to ftp the files.
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#3 2006-03-17 12:21:18
- sevans2626
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Re: A Couple of questions
Hi Alexandra. Thanks for the information.
Would yo be able to go a bit more indepth as to how these issues can be achieved? Ive not heard of XAMPP. What is that? Also how would the archive be achieved???
Many thanks again
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Re: A Couple of questions
Hi I can only tell you what I would do…
<blockquote>1) Is it possible to create a duplicate site of a current website and host it on an alternative server? Allowing the client to play with the styles etc before he makes them live? Or is there another way this can be accomplished?</blockquote>
It is possible. Use MySQL dumbs to move the site to different servers. You will need to change the address in the admin/prefs to the new address and the site root etc in the config.php file. Since the site will be a temp one I would put something there for the search engines ie
<code><meta name=“revisit-after” content=“30 days” />
<meta name=“robots” content=“noindex,follow” /></code>
<blockquote>2) In the files section under content is it possible to create an archive feature that will enable my client to store files that are not necessarily needed any more?</blockquote>
I guess here you mean pdfs or whatever other downloadable files. Yes it is possible. You can allocate a category for each file and then use <a href=“http://textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Txp:file_download_category_/”>txp:file_download_category /></a> to only have on line what your client wishes. The items your client wants on line but not on site can be in another category which is not linked in the front end.
I hope your questions are answered
Yiannis
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Re: A Couple of questions
OOps… My phone rang and by the time I finished there were already 2 answers here. Well… <a href=“http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html”>Here</a>‘s XAMPP
Yiannis
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#6 2006-03-17 13:24:50
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Re: A Couple of questions
So if I create a new catagory i.e archive and then re-catagorise the pdfs in files to be archive.
How would I then download them? I apologise for seeming ignorant but I am 100% new to TP.
Thanks for your help…
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#7 2006-03-17 20:08:31
- alexandra
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Re: A Couple of questions
You need to use tags. Find a list of tags and their description of use in TextBook
The relevant tags are:
<code><txp:file_download />*
<txp:file_download_category />*
<txp:file_download_created />*
<txp:file_download_description />*
<txp:file_download_downloads />*
<txp:file_download_id />*
<txp:file_download_link >###</txp:file_download_link>*
<txp:file_download_list />*
<txp:file_download_modified />*
<txp:file_download_name />*
<txp:file_download_size /></code>
Some of these tags you have to combine.
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