littled.net » systems administration http://www.littled.net/new David Little's home on the Web Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:57:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Tidying up http://www.littled.net/new/2008/12/30/tidying-up/ http://www.littled.net/new/2008/12/30/tidying-up/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:45:54 +0000 David http://www.littled.net/new/?p=102 I’ve had a bit of time to tidy up my site over Christmas. Not just in terms of the design, but I’ve also given some thought to how I manage my content feeds. As I’ve recently been blogging about my work with Plone theming, I got my site listed on Planet Plone. This aggregates posts from Plone-related blogs on one site. However, I don’t just blog about Plone but pretty much whatever I feel like at the time. This causes a bit of a problem in that I could be sending non-Plone noise over to Planet Plone which isn’t ideal. The odd post isn’t too much of a problem — in fact in can be interesting to see what other Plone people are up to on their days off from Plone. However, I’ve got a number of non-Plone posts planned for next year so it could get potentially quite annoying and distracting.

I tried setting up a redirect from my main Wordpress feed so it pointed to the Plone-specific feed but I couldn’t get this to work for some reason (maybe to do with the limitations of my through the web redirect editor, maybe something to do with the “virtual” directory structure in Wordpress). However, I came across this Wordpress plugin which seems to have done the job very well: Redirection by Urban Giraffe. This has a good range of functions to support redirecting, including the ability to match on regular expressions.

For now I’ve set my main site feed to point to the Plone category and will work on creating another feed for all other stuff. I’ll keep my eye on Planet Plone — if this post comes through then it’s back to the drawing board. If so, I’m open to other suggestions on how to sort this out!

As an addendum, I’ve just checked the Planet Plone site and my blog’s RSS feed is already listed as pointing to my Plone and Zope categories, so I’m not sure why it’s picking up non-Plone stuff.

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^/plone($|/.*)
http://myplonesite:9080/VirtualHostBase/http/www.littled.net:80/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_plone$1
[L,P]

So littled.net/plone would lead you straight into the Plone site. When I finally got the .htaccess file syntax correct which took a few passes (like getting the RewriteBase set properly) it kind of worked, except my hosting company don’t have mod_proxy installed (I guess for security reasons which is reasonable).  When the flags were taken out, the redirect did work, rewriting the URLs on the Plone page, but leaving the hideous Virtual Host Monster URL in the browser location bar. So, what I learned is this:

Even if you are using Rewrite rules and not using mod_proxy directly, you still need mod_proxy enabled for it to work properly.

Never mind, my Plone site is now going to be separate site from this with its own URL.

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