New Message: Downloading a copy of a Manila site

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By: Lawrence Lee (lawrence at userland.com)

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<br><br>A Managing Editor can download a copy of their Manila site as a Frontier guest database.
As well as creating a backup file, you can use this feature to move your site to another Manila server.
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Steps
   1. Log in as the Managing Editor. 
   2. Enter an address (URL) of the form http:\//yourdomain.com/downloadMySite/MySite.root, changing "yourdomain.com" to match your site. 
   3. Select a location for the file on your computer. 
   (Note to Macintosh users: you will need to set the type to 'TABL' and creator to 'LAND' -- see the script at the <a end of this section.)
Notes
   If, after you've downloaded your site, you continue to work on your site at its original location, the two copies will be out of synch.
   For privacy reasons, member passwords are removed from the copy before it's downloaded.
How to install the site on another copy of Frontier
   1. Open your downloaded Manila site file in Frontier.
   2. Copy your website's table by selecting Copy from the Edit menu.
   3. Next, open the table where you want to install your website, and paste your website table into that table (eg. manilaWebsites.root). You may rename your website table at this point, if you wish.
   4. Select Install Site in the Server menu. You'll see a dialog asking you what URL your website should have.
   If you want to change the site's URL, type the new URL into this dialog. If you want to leave the URL the same as it was before, just click OK.
How to change the type and creator
   As mentioned above, here's a short script for changing the type and creator of your downloaded site. (This is for Macintosh Classic users.)
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   local (f = "Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder:MySite.root")
   file.setType (f, 'TABL')
   file.setCreator (f, 'LAND')
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   Edit the first line to match the path on disk to the guest database on your computer.