static rendering

[chris at acip.com]

Hi Georg,

I wish I had a solution for you problem; but it's one that I've been
encountering for quite some time now both with v6.2.1 and v7.0.1.  I've
posted to both this list and the bug-report list to no real avail except
for a couple of work arounds:  if you use the {imageRef} macro everytime
you're referring to a directory, i.e. "http://www.mysite.com/myroot/", it
works just fine, the first letter isn't doubled and no '.html' is appended.
You cannot use this work-around with files, i.e.
"http://www.mysite.com/myroot/myfile.html", it doesn't render appropriately
(at least it hasn't for me).  The other solution someone offered me was to
fully qualify the directory URL, i.e.
"http://www.mysite.com/myroot/index.html", thus it points directly to the
index.html file written as the default file for that particular directory.
I haven't gotten any response yet from Userland as to whether or not this
is a bug--but I'm hoping they'll let us know soon.  By the way, don't
bother, if you haven't already, downloading a new copy of Frontier 7 from
the frontier site and installing it from scratch--that didn't work for me
either.  I installed and configured a completely clean copy, set up my
first manila site and typed the nonsensical relative link <a href
="http://www.mysite.com/myroot/">My Root</a> on to the 'It worked!' manila
home page just created, I then rendered it to a static file and, viola, the
error still appeared: <a href="http://www.mysite.com/mmyroot.html">My
Root</a>.  I'm sorry this doesn't solve your problem, but the {imageRef}
macro seems to be working okay for me until we can get a response from
Userland.

Regards.

Chris Funk


                                                                                                                     
                    Georg Berg                                                                                       
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I have a problem with frontier 7 that didn't occur with earlier versions.

The relative link to the homepage of the top level site of a hierarchy of
manila sites goes to a nonexisting file instead of a folder.

The link in the manila template is as follows:
<a href="/rotweiss/">Tennis-Club Rot-Weiss</a>

The rendered version changes it to rrotweiss.html doubling the first letter
of the folder and adding .html

Have a look at the example:
http://www.tennis-grevenbroich.de/rotweiss/verein/termine.html