Textpattern CMS demo site

gaekwad · 2020-05-27 11:56:10

etc wrote #323343:

When accessing prev-demo.textpattern.co/articles/?author=Managing+Editor+%2386 one must see only the articles written by Managing Editor #86. I get all articles from articles section.

Ah, yes – now I see it.

etc · 2020-05-27 12:53:30

If that helps, $_GET array on prev-demo.textpattern.co/?a=b&d=g is

array (
  'a' => 'b',
  'd' => 'g',
)

as expected, but on prev-demo.textpattern.co/articles/?a=b&d=g the first key is wrongly prepended with ?:

array (
  '?a' => 'b',
  'd' => 'g',
)

gaekwad · 2020-05-27 12:55:18

Oh, hold on…I think I might know the answer to this. Bear with me 15 mins, I’ll try something.

Edit: OK, I think this is down to my PHP handling on Nginx, I need to unpick it.

This is the way it works at the moment:

location / {
        index index.html index.php;
        limit_except GET HEAD POST {
            deny all;
        }
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$is_args$args;
    }

The important part is the try_files directive, which tries the absolute URI first, then tries the same with a trailing slash, then reverts to the root index.php. I suspect something’s not fully working with the ?$is_args$args part when URL slugs are involved, and I’ll need to investigate. Likely not today since my brain hasn’t got the horsepower, but I’ll look into it.

Last edited by gaekwad (2020-05-27 13:07:38)

gaekwad · 2020-05-27 13:44:29

etc wrote #323345:

[…] the first key is wrongly prepended with ?:

Fixed. Try now. Fixed in prev-demo, rolling out change to other sites now.

Last edited by gaekwad (2020-05-27 13:48:01)

etc · 2020-05-27 13:50:49

Now prev-demo.textpattern.co/articles/?author=Managing+Editor+%2386 is fine. Well done!

gaekwad · 2020-05-27 14:20:29

etc wrote #323350:

Now prev-demo.textpattern.co/articles/?author=Managing+Editor+%2386 is fine.

Thanks for your patience while I sorted it!

gaekwad · 2020-06-01 11:36:06

I had the pleasure of upgrading release-demo to Textpattern 4.8.1 over the weekend.

Demo server tech stack (current as of post timestamp):

Site	Textpattern	HTTP	Database	PHP
Release Demo	Textpattern 4.8.1	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)
Beta Demo	Textpattern 4.8.0-beta.3	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)
Dev Demo	GitHub `dev` branch	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)

gaekwad · 2020-06-01 11:45:11

About a week ago I posted about a potential change to the dev-demo site. This post is an update to that post.

With the release of Textpattern 4.8.1, Textpattern development on GitHub has two main branches:

a branch called 4.8.2 for bug fixes on the Texpattern 4.8 release series
a branch called dev for work on the Textpattern 4.9 release series

There are some changes coming to Textpattern 4.9 that will modernise the codebase, which helps development, performance, and security. While work is ongoing, eyes will be split between the current release series (4.8) and the next release series (4.9).

At some point this month, and I’ll give you some warning when I know exactly when, the dev-demo site will split into branched installs: we’ll have 4.8.2 available on one site, and dev on another. Here’s the info on the URLs that will be used:

https://dev-demo.textpattern.co/4.8.2/
https://dev-demo.textpattern.co/dev/

If you have a shortcut to https://dev-demo.textpattern.co/ it will auto divert to https://dev-demo.textpattern.co/dev/. Your username and password will continue to work.

I’ll know more about the schedule by the end of this week, so please stay tuned if you’re interested.

gaekwad · 2020-06-08 18:07:49

Short-term PHP stack change while we investigate an issue.

Demo server tech stack (current as of post timestamp):

Site	Textpattern	HTTP	Database	PHP
Release Demo	Textpattern 4.8.1	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.3.18 (PHP-FPM)
Beta Demo	Textpattern 4.8.0-beta.3	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)
Dev Demo	GitHub `dev` branch	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)

gaekwad · 2020-06-09 10:03:00

High level tweaks to demo server, with timeline/roadmap:

formalise addition of prev-demo: most recent Textpattern patch release from previous minor branch (i.e. Textpattern 4.7.3 as of this post) running on current-minus-one version of PHP (i.e. PHP 7.3.19 as of this post) – ~~ETA is June 21 2020~~ DONE.
branches-as-subdirectories added to dev-demo: changes as outlined here – ~~ETA is June 28 2020~~ DONE.
formalise addition of php-src-dev-demo: development branches of Textpattern running on development build of PHP 8.0 (expected release Q4 2020) – ETA is August 2020.

I’ll keep you posted. There are other things planned on top of this, but these are the highlights.

Last edited by gaekwad (2020-07-27 12:28:31)

gaekwad · 2020-06-09 10:10:34

Reverted PHP stack change mentioned here – back to normal.

Demo server tech stack (current as of post timestamp):

Site	Textpattern	HTTP	Database	PHP
Release Demo	Textpattern 4.8.1	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)
Beta Demo	Textpattern 4.8.0-beta.3	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)
Dev Demo	GitHub `dev` branch	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)

gaekwad · 2020-06-09 10:21:26

Announcing the arrival of prev-demo to the demo server. I heard positive feedback on the usefulness of this, so it gets to stay. I will add it to the landing page later this week.

Note: in the interests of security, should any version of Textpattern be deemed insecure (e.g. is exploitable, has an assigned CVE, that sort of thing) then it will not be offered on the demo server.

Demo server tech stack (current as of post timestamp):

Site	Textpattern	HTTP	Database	PHP
Release Demo	Textpattern 4.8.1	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)
Beta Demo	Textpattern 4.8.0-beta.3	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)
Prev Demo	Textpattern 4.7.3	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.3.19 (PHP-FPM)
Dev Demo	GitHub `dev` branch	Nginx 1.19.0	Percona Server 8.0	PHP 7.4.6 (PHP-FPM)

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#241 2020-05-27 11:56:10

Re: Textpattern CMS demo site

etc wrote #323343:

#242 2020-05-27 12:53:30

Re: Textpattern CMS demo site

#243 2020-05-27 12:55:18

Re: Textpattern CMS demo site

#244 2020-05-27 13:44:29

Re: Textpattern CMS demo site

etc wrote #323345:

#245 2020-05-27 13:50:49

Re: Textpattern CMS demo site

#246 2020-05-27 14:20:29

Re: Textpattern CMS demo site

etc wrote #323350:

#247 2020-06-01 11:36:06

Re: Textpattern CMS demo site

#248 2020-06-01 11:45:11

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#249 2020-06-08 18:07:49

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#250 2020-06-09 10:03:00

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