Manila Not Applying Changes

[Lawrence Lee]

Can you email me your Frontier configuration report from the Frontier Admin
site to me.

Lawrence Lee
UserLand Software
www.userland.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: frontier-users-bounces at userland.com 
> [mailto:frontier-users-bounces at userland.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Hale
> Sent: December 1, 2004 12:07 PM
> To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
> Subject: RE: Manila Not Applying Changes
> 
> Hi Lawrence -
> 
> Here are the answers to your questions:
> 
> > Do the changes seem to be connected in any way to Frontier 
> restarting?
> 
> No, I don't think so.  I have always had Frontier running as 
> a service on a Win2K machine, so I don't think that is the issue.
> 
> > Do you have the preference to save all changed databases 
> every minute enabled?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Can you post the exact text of the "message does not exist" error?
> 
> >From http://rbs.t1host.net/stories/storyReader$11
> 
> Sorry! There was an error: Can't display story 11 because it 
> doesn't exist.
> The error was detected by Frontier 9.0 in 
> mainResponder.respond. Webmaster:
> ryan.hale at levistable.com. Time: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:58:43 GMT.
> 
> Regarding the test:
> 
> It seems like the changes to the Stories and other pages are 
> taking right now, but I can't make that jive with the error 
> you'll see by going to the URL above.
> 
> What I am finding is that it is the settings that are more 
> the problem that the messages.  For example, at 
> rbs.t1host.net, I have made changes to the Appearance 
> settings (Changed siteName, turned off calendar on homepage, 
> 1 newsday, showed title) at least 10 times, but if you go to 
> that site, you'll see that the siteName (title bar) is still 
> the name of the original naming convention on the site, the 
> calendar is there, title not there, multiple news days, etc.
> 
> One thing that I've noticed is that it seems that the changes 
> revert back most-often after I have made a change in Prefs > 
> Advanced.  I've also created several relative paths on this 
> site (both at the story page and using the Site Hierarchy at 
> Prefs > Advanced) only to have these settings revert back to 
> the previous look without any relative paths except /about.
> 
> Finally, I did do some fiddling around with my personal site 
> (on the same Frontier installation but in a different 
> manilaWebsites database) and also had one change work 
> incorrectly when I tried to change the Navigation Links 
> appearance.  It reverted back on me after making a couple of 
> other changes to the template, so it seems that this is 
> server-wide instead of isolated to one site.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ryan
>