| Re: cleaning up first php page was Re: can't get includes to load [message #180999 is a reply to message #180996] |
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Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/4/2013 4:48 AM, Cal Dershowitz wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 01:06 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:
>> On 27/03/13 08:00, Cal Dershowitz wrote:
>
>>> What is a person supposed to do about the fact that if you just type in
>>> www.merrillpjensen.com , you get the old index.html? Should I just
>>> re-direct that to a php version?
>>
>> Delete the index.html and problem solved.
>
> Alright, well it takes me a couple weeks to catch up on the reading with
> this stuff, but I now have a php-written page that has some measure of
> functionality to it:
>
> http://www.merrillpjensen.com/
>
> I think task one might be populating the dummy links, and they work, so
> woo-hoo.
>
> With the nav links, they have to be populated such that their relative
> addresses are gonna work and herewith my next design head-scratcher.
>
> Q1) Am I correct to think that for my stage of the ballgame, I want to
> have a unique .css file to which all pages refer?
>
It depends on your site's needs. However, this has nothing to do with PHP.
> For ease of upload with Filezilla, I'd like to put it in the includes
> directory, which is a ways off from where I'd like to find it with my
> 'about' page:
>
> $ pwd
> /home/sites/migrate/php/php1/includes
> $ ls
> footer.php header.php nav.php sidebar.php style.css
> footer.php~ header.php~ nav.php~ sidebar.php~
> $ cd ..
> $ echo root document directory
> root document directory
> $ cd pages/
> $ cd about/
> $ cat index.php
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>
> ...
>
> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" media="screen" />
>
> What I thought I could get away with was the preliminary hack of copying
> and pasting style.css into that folder, but it's just not gonna work
> until I get the relative-addressing figured out.
>
Again, completely unrelated to PHP.
> Q2) How do I refer to a "first cousin once removed" file that is 2 up
> and one down in includes/ ?
>
Still unrelated to PHP.
> Q3) For lack of a better idea, I used the headers of my original
> index.php page for the one that will be in pages/about/ . How do I
> write this small, derivative page without requiring the browser to re-do
> everything it did to load the home page?
>
> For example, nothing is to change about headers, footers, nav, sidebar
> during this invocation.
>
Your PHP question is?
>>
>> Another case, as you seem to give out a link with index.* it can be good
>> to use the apache rewrite module to redirect those who try to access the
>> index.html file directly, in your .htaccess you could have something
>> like this:
>>
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteBase /
>> RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.php [L]
>>
>> Haven't tested it, so in worst case you need to make some tiny changes.
>
> I wonder whether there's an analog between what you do with default and
> what you do with default-ssl:
>
> $ pwd
> /etc/apache2/sites-available
> $ ls
> default default~ default-ssl
> $ cat default-ssl
> <IfModule mod_ssl.c>
> <VirtualHost _default_:443>
> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
>
> DocumentRoot /var/www
> <Directory />
> Options FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride None
> </Directory>
> <Directory /var/www/>
> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
> AllowOverride None
> Order allow,deny
> allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> Notice the similarities with default. I haven't been able to wrap my
> head around ssl yet in this environment but don't want to get farther
> away from the php of it.
Then you might want to get back to PHP. This isn't it.
>>
>>
>>> Also taking any and all suggestions* on how to make this start looking
>>> like a webpage that you would show a client.
>>
>> You maybe want to look at a CMS and just make a theme for it and then
>> add on your own plugins to do things you want it to do and no one else
>> has already done, then you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
>>
>>
>
> CMS? plug-ins? Things I know only if different contexts.
>
> Thx for your comment,
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=cms
The Wikipedia article is quite interesting.
If you want to design websites, I would suggest you get some basic books
on HTML, Apache and PHP. They will help you immensely.
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