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Rearranging the URL with mod_rewrite

Leave a Comment / Apache, Development / Dan Langille

And today, for my first trick (yes, it is my first trick, but my second post today), I shall transform this URL: http://www.freshports.org/news/pan2/files.php?message_id=200605010349.k413nOGF019378@repoman.freebsd.org into http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200605010349.k413nOGF019378@repoman.freebsd.org&category=news&port=pan2&files=yes Why? Because it is impolite to break existing URLs. It is far better to redirect them to the new improved content. Our documentation for today’s exercise shall be http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteRule. Our […]

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Finding another way to parse URLs

Leave a Comment / Development, Help Wanted!, New ideas / Dan Langille

Central to how FreshPorts works is the parsing of the URL. Almost everying in FreshPorts is in a database, not in a static file somewhere. I need to improve the URL parsing.

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FreshPorts downtime

Leave a Comment / Announcements, Bacula, Development, PostgreSQL / Dan Langille

Earlier this week, we had a bit of a crisis. The colo which provides bandwidth and servers to FreshPorts (and all the other websites I run), was unexpectedly shutdown. BChosting sold their Vancouver facilities to Netluxe, who, by all accounts, shut down the ops center without notifying customers. Well, I wasn’t notified. I was contacted

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Commit drill downs

Leave a Comment / Development, Help Wanted!, New ideas / Dan Langille

A drill down refers to moving from summary information to detailed data by focusing in on something. On a ports commit, you can drill down in several ways. Take this commit for example. You can the following ways to drill down: takes you to the FreeBSD email archive takes you to the commit details [1]

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All commits under a point in the tree

Leave a Comment / Bacula, Development, Help Wanted!, New ideas / Dan Langille

Have you ever wanted to see all the commits to devel before? What about all the commits to the various Apache ports?

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Improved Watch List sorting

Leave a Comment / Bug fixes, Development, PostgreSQL, Watch Lists / Dan Langille

Christian Ullrich found a problem with the Watch List updating pages. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working on fixing it. I’ve been coding. He’s been verifying. Today we fixed it. The changes should go into production soon (if they aren’t already). The other thing he mentioned was sorting by last update. If there

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Improving the search – pagination

Leave a Comment / Development, New ideas, PEAR, PostgreSQL, Watch Lists / Dan Langille

I’ve spoken about pagination before. Use the search to see where. I’ve started adding pagination to the Search page. I’ll be using Pager form PEAR again.

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Sanity Test Failures

1 Comment / Announcements, Development, Sanity Tests / Dan Langille

FreshPorts has a long history of Sanity Testing each commit to the FreeBSD Ports tree. It has been doing this for two main reasons: Ensure the integrity of the FreshPorts database Help correct obvious errors as soon as possible In 2002, FreshPorts allowed committers to opt in to receiving these notifications directly. Prior to this

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Paging – a much better way

1 Comment / Development, Help Wanted!, PEAR / Dan Langille

In the previous post I showed how I found out it was the ports-deleted page that was causing httpd to die. Since then, I finished my coding to introduce pagination into that URL What was once on one page, is now on 32 pages. As a added bonus, because the changes were made to the

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FreshPorts and vuxml entries

Leave a Comment / Development / Dan Langille

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