Textpattern CMS demo site

colak · 2014-09-21 15:13:34

Hi Pete, all,

I think that Pete’s demo should be linked by both this forum (at the bottom where external links are posted), textpattern.com where we are currently linking to an old txp version on opensourcecms and the ,org site.

A suggestion would be to use the rah_external_output plugin in the .com site and create one linklist there which can be then used by txp family of sites.

Easy and quick:)

etc · 2015-07-21 13:27:20

Hi Pete,

would it be possible to include in the package some plugins and populate the site a little more? We could use it then as convenient testing platform for txptips. With new themes popping out, we could probably even serve tips as themes?

gaekwad · 2015-07-21 15:44:45

etc wrote #293579:

would it be possible to include in the package some plugins and populate the site a little more? We could use it then as convenient testing platform for txptips. With new themes popping out, we could probably even serve tips as themes?

I’m not averse to the idea, but my concern is that it’ll become a catch-all for everything, become too big to manage and then lose its (niche) value. I will, eventually, find time to write up how it runs so anyone can roll their own. It’s running atop a $5 Digital Ocean server on a bunch of cron scripts. None of it is particularly clever or optimised.

I pledge to find some time to a) bring it to EU hosting, b) add 4.6-dev alongside the latest release if that’s viable and c) write the whole process up so it can be cloned elsewhere. I can’t/won’t promise when, but if this would be helpful to the cause, that might spur me on a bit.

colak · 2015-07-21 18:29:56

gaekwad wrote #293593:

I pledge to find some time to a) bring it to EU hosting, b) add 4.6-dev alongside the latest release if that’s viable and c) write the whole process up so it can be cloned elsewhere. I can’t/won’t promise when, but if this would be helpful to the cause, that might spur me on a bit.

That would be an excellent txptip:)

gaekwad · 2016-09-10 12:40:37

Demo site should be running Textpattern 4.6.0 by 1800UTC.

bici · 2016-09-11 03:50:25

Написать! great job.

gaekwad · 2017-04-16 14:37:29

textpattern.co/demo

Moved server to Amsterdam (was San Francisco), rebuilt with Ubuntu 16.04LTS (was 14.04LTS)
Added 5x user roles

Last edited by gaekwad (2017-04-16 14:37:44)

philwareham · 2017-04-17 05:58:27

Cheers Pete. The demo site has a prominent position in the new Textpattern homepage. Which I’ll share with you directly (it’s not for public viewing right now).

gaekwad · 2017-11-24 23:49:54

Until now the Textpattern demo site has been limited to the most recent release/production version. I am very pleased to announce I’m adding a subdomain for the current in-development version direct from GitHub. This is an early alpha announcement to people subscribing on this thread, I’m hoping to overhaul things in the coming weeks as time permits.

For the meantime, and this link may change so please don’t rely on it, the link to use is

dev-demo.textpattern.co

(https or http).

Notes:

the dev demo site pulls the latest software from GitHub every three hours
the login credentials are the same as the production version (see here for username/password)
there are no images or files, they are on the to-do list
everything is nuked and rebuilt from scratch every three hours
…it uses the same awkward Bunch O’ Bash© as the release version site

This new development is possible thanks to work undertaken by makss in the past few weeks. Makss has added a CLI option to install Textpattern, and it’s fantastic.

The install process for 4.7 (subject to change, it’s still in development) can be automated from a command line. To put this in perspective, the script I wrote to build the demo every three hours tears down the previous install, flattens the files and database, grabs the latest source from GitHub, runs the automated install according to settings in a JSON file, and builds the new site in about 11 seconds. I am certain I can make this even faster, but it’s blisteringly fast compared to walking through the GUI process.

I’ll overhaul and tidy the demo server in December, but you can trial the development version right now without setting up a development environment.

More soon. Thanks for reading.

Last edited by gaekwad (2017-11-24 23:51:13)

Bloke · 2017-11-25 00:17:21

Oh that is smoooooth!

Now we just have to watch we don’t break the dev branch too often :-)

bici · 2017-11-25 00:23:54

gaekwad wrote #307979:

Until now the Textpattern demo site has been limited to the most recent release/production version. I am very pleased to announce I’m adding a subdomain for the current in-development version direct from GitHub. This is an early alpha announcement to people subscribing on this thread, I’m hoping to overhaul things in the coming weeks as time permits.

For the meantime, and this link may change so please don’t rely on it, the link to use is

(https or http).

Notes:

the dev demo site pulls the latest software from GitHub every three hours

the login credentials are the same as the production version (see here for username/password)

there are no images or files, they are on the to-do list

everything is nuked and rebuilt from scratch every three hours

…it uses the same awkward Bunch O’ Bash© as the release version site

This new development is possible thanks to work undertaken by makss in the past few weeks. Makss has added a CLI option to install Textpattern, and it’s fantastic.

The install process for 4.7 (subject to change, it’s still in development) can be automated from a command line. To put this in perspective, the script I wrote to build the demo every three hours tears down the previous install, flattens the files and database, grabs the latest source from GitHub, runs the automated install according to settings in a JSON file, and builds the new site in about 11 seconds. I am certain I can make this even faster, but it’s blisteringly fast compared to walking through the GUI process.

I’ll overhaul and tidy the demo server in December, but you can trial the development version right now without setting up a development environment.

More soon. Thanks for reading.

That is sooooo impressive. CLI rebuild. wow! that whole process is begging for a great How-To and/or blog post. The news of this ability needs wide distribution!

jpdupont · 2017-11-25 09:08:11

Very interesting ! Can you give us a short tutorial about installing TXP automatically?

gaekwad · 2017-11-25 12:35:15

jpdupont wrote #307986:

Very interesting ! Can you give us a short tutorial about installing TXP automatically?

Absolutely. I can flesh this out when I have a bit more time (Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend is always busy for me monitoring client servers). Before I start, some notes:

This functionality is in the development version of Textpattern at GitHub, which by its nature is subject to change.
The route I took was figured out from me groking commits by makss, and some trial & error (mostly because I’m rusty at Bash and I’ve been away from Textpattern for a while. There are potentially more efficient ways of doing this.

The workflow comprises:

Create a JSON file with setup details (behind the scenes, you don’t want this leaking out). Use the template below and fill in the blanks. site entries are optional (can be left as-is), mysql and user entries are required:

{
    "site": {
        "lang": "en",
        "siteurl": "",
        "theme": "",
        "public_theme": "",
        "datadir": ""
    },
    "mysql": {
        "user": "",
        "pass": "",
        "host": "localhost",
        "db": "",
        "table_prefix": ""
    },
    "user": {
        "realname": "",
        "email": "",
        "name": "",
        "pass": ""
    }
}

Obtain the dev version of Textpattern

git clone https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern.git

Copy or move the files into your preferred webroot. You can safely ignore the git-related files.
Make sure textpattern/config.php is writable by the user you’re using, then run php from the command line:

php /var/www/html/textpattern/setup/setup.php --config="my-setup-config.json"

The output will tell you what’s happening, and if all goes well you should see:

Checking connectivity... done.
[OK]	Connected
[OK]	Using devdemo. (utf8mb4)
[OK]	That went well!

The reference to devdemo is for my server, yours will be different.

jpdupont · 2017-11-25 13:23:13

Thanks :))

bici · 2017-12-01 17:42:37

Not sure thsi is the correct place to ask….but.

Is there a way for our Textpattern installations to let us know when a new version is available once we are logged in as Admin?

For example at the bottom of the Admin login area the footer says:

 (4.6.2) · Logged in as admin

But if i was running 4.5.7 it would say:

 (4.5.7) -  latest  (4.6.2) · Logged in as admin

Last edited by bici (2017-12-01 17:43:04)

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#33 2015-07-21 15:44:45

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#34 2015-07-21 18:29:56

Re: Textpattern CMS demo site

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#35 2016-09-10 12:40:37

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#36 2016-09-11 03:50:25

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#37 2017-04-16 14:37:29

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#41 2017-11-25 00:23:54

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gaekwad wrote #307979:

#42 2017-11-25 09:08:11

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#43 2017-11-25 12:35:15

Re: Textpattern CMS demo site

jpdupont wrote #307986:

#44 2017-11-25 13:23:13

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