[1245] in Coldmud discussion meeting
Re: [COLD] a couple of html questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Mar 5 11:02:58 1997
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 08:57:05 -0700 (MST)
From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>
To: Frank Crowell <frankc@maddog.com>
cc: Cold Stuff <coldstuff@cold.org>
In-Reply-To: <331D1670.585F547C@maddog.com>
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Frank Crowell wrote:
> I seem to have forgotten how to use the html stuff in Cold.
> For example, I thought that the start.html went in the root
> directory where the database is. But I get "not found" error
> messages when I try to access that file with a browser.
>
> I also don't know what I'm suppose to put in the .../login/
> file; is that an index.html?
>
> I don't need detailed answers, but just a pointer or two
> of what I'm suppose to be looking.
Anything that shows up on the web in '/' is actually in the root file
directory (defauling to 'root') plus html. For instance, if you didn't
change any of the defaults it'd be in: root/html/
> I also wonder if there is a editor for editing the
> complex html descriptions that are embedded in the Cold
> database or is the idea to @dump the object and then use
> a regular text editor. An example of this is motd. There
> is a lot of html stuff and not an obvious way of how I can
> edit it.
Most of it should be dynamically generated through CML. For the specific
MOTD instance I can say just edit $motd.build_html--its all one line
because of an insane bout of optimization I had once.
For other instances just ask me..
-Brandon