[tei-council] Linking issue in the Guidelines

[David Sewell]

That ought to work... except... when I go in to make changes to the page 
"handle404.html", the same changes are applied to "handle500.html". They are 
linked files in OpenCMS (and this is something I haven't dealt with before). We 
probably wouldn't want "Page not found" for a true 500-level server error. So we 
would need to create a separate HTML page for server errors.

I think that would work. Can it wait for 10 days, however, unless someone else 
wants to muck about in Open CMS?

David

On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Martin Holmes wrote:

> Try the attached page and see what it looks like.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 14-02-27 09:31 AM, David Sewell wrote:
>> I think that could be done by changing the OpenCMS type of the file from
>> "JSP" to "text file". The styling would need to be done by manually
>> copy-pasting from the generated HTML for a site page, because it
>> wouldn't inherit any of the OpenCMS templates. But it wouldn't be hard
>> to create something nicer than the existing one.
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> 
>>> I wonder if we could just replace that JSP page with a static page?
>>> The only thing a 404 page tells you other than that something's not
>>> found is to echo back at you the URL you tried to access, which isn't
>>> very useful anyway, since it's in your browser address bar. A
>>> dead-simple HTML page based on our regular templates might work as a
>>> drop-in replacement.
>>> 
>>> I could be misunderstanding how the JSP calls work, though.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> On 14-02-27 06:32 AM, David Sewell wrote:
>>>> I have just taken a quick look to see what I can see in the CMS. I've
>>>> never attempted to do anything with those standard error templates.
>>>> 
>>>> In this case it looks like OpenCMS is using
>>>> /system/handler/handle404.html. Unfortunately, that is a JSP page that
>>>> consists pretty much entirely of calls to variables defined elsewhere,
>>>> so unless there's some modular way of changing the 404 behavior it's not
>>>> going to be trivially easy to change. I can't figure out where the
>>>> variables are defined, either.
>>>> 
>>>> If I have time later today I'll poke around more, but this is my last
>>>> day in the office before a week's vacation so I have a lot on my plate.
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Among those of us who have access to the CMS, does anyone have access
>>>>> above /sites/default/? That's all I can see. I hate to bother Ian with
>>>>> this sort of thing, but if none of us can actually edit outside that
>>>>> area, we'll have to.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Martin
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 14-02-27 03:43 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 26 Feb 2014, at 23:59, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The question on whether the 404 page could be fixed up a bit still
>>>>>>> stands, though -- I don't have access high enough up the tree in the
>>>>>>> CMS to see where it's coming from, but if one of you does, could you
>>>>>>> fix the spelling error ("occured")? And could we also think about a
>>>>>>> page which matches the site design?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> i agree, that 404 page makes us look unprofessional and disorganised.
>>>>>> it comes up much too readily….
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Sebastian Rahtz
>>>>>> Director (Research) of Academic IT
>>>>>> University of Oxford IT Services
>>>>>> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Não sou nada.
>>>>>> Nunca serei nada.
>>>>>> Não posso querer ser nada.
>>>>>> À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
>>>>>> 
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>> 
>

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