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  • Discussion - Allowing / blocking user access to pages (Client Side Only!) - Javascript / Jquery

    - by Ozaki
    TLDR Using plain HTML / Javascript (Client Side) I want to prevent viewing of certain pages. The user will have to type a username and password and depending on that they get access to different pages. Answers can NOT include server side whatsoever It does not matter if they can break it easily. There is no sensitive information etc. Also the target audience will not have access to internet OR probably know what a cookie is... At some point the user will have to type username / password.(I can define the cookie here) Currently I thought of using cookies to set a cookie for each page to say "true" / "false" but that would get messy with so many cookies. Or setting an array within a cookie for each page? I have div field "#Content" which as it looks encompasses all of my content on the page so blocking out content will be as simple as replacing it with ("sorry you don't have access") etc. For Example: $.cookie("Access","page1, page2, page3"{ expires: 1 }); I am looking for anyway to do this does not have to be with cookies. Would be nice to get a discussion of different ways this can be done. So the question is: What do YOU think would be a good way to go about doing this with client side validation?

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  • Searching with a UISearchbar is slow and blocking the main thread.

    - by Robert
    I have a Table with over 3000 entries and searching is very slow. At the moment I am doing just like in the 'TableSearch' example code (but without scopes) - (BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller shouldReloadTableForSearchString:(NSString *)searchString { [self filterContentForSearchText: searchString]; // Return YES to cause the search result table view to be reloaded. return YES; } And the filterContentForSearchText method is as follows: - (void) filterContentForSearchText:(NSString*)searchText { // Update the filtered array based on the search text // First clear the filtered array. [filteredListContent removeAllObjects]; // Search the main list whose name matches searchText // add items that match to the filtered array. if (fetchedResultsController.fetchedObjects) { for (id object in fetchedResultsController.fetchedObjects) { NSString* searchTarget = [tableTypeDelegate getStringForSearchFilteringFromObject:object]; if ([searchTarget rangeOfString:searchText options:(NSCaseInsensitiveSearch|NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch)].location != NSNotFound) { [filteredListContent addObject:object]; } } } } My question is twofold: How do can I make the searching process faster? How can I stop the search from blocking the main thread? i.e. stop it preventing the user from typing more characters. For the second part, I tried "performSelector:withObject:afterDelay:" and "cancelPreviousPerformRequests..." without much success. I suspect that I will need to use threading instead, but I do not have much experience with it.

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  • Why is a non-blocking TCP connect() occasionally so slow on Linux?

    - by pts
    I was trying to measure the speed of a TCP server I'm writing, and I've noticed that there might be a fundamental problem of measuring the speed of the connect() calls: if I connect in a non-blocking way, connect() operations become very slow after a few seconds. Here is the example code in Python: #! /usr/bin/python2.4 import errno import os import select import socket import sys def NonBlockingConnect(sock, addr): while True: try: return sock.connect(addr) except socket.error, e: if e.args[0] not in (errno.EINPROGRESS, errno.EALREADY): raise os.write(2, '^') if not select.select((), (sock,), (), 0.5)[1]: os.write(2, 'P') def InfiniteClient(addr): while True: sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0) sock.setblocking(0) sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) # sock.connect(addr) NonBlockingConnect(sock, addr) sock.close() os.write(2, '.') def InfiniteServer(server_socket): while True: sock, addr = server_socket.accept() sock.close() server_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0) server_socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1) server_socket.bind(('127.0.0.1', 45454)) server_socket.listen(128) if os.fork(): # Parent. InfiniteServer(server_socket) else: addr = server_socket.getsockname() server_socket.close() InfiniteClient(addr) With NonBlockingConnect, most connect() operations are fast, but in every few seconds there happens to be one connect() operation which takes at least 2 seconds (as indicated by 5 consecutive P letters on the output). By using sock.connect instead of NonBlockingConnect all connect operations seem to be fast. How is it possible to get rid of these slow connect()s? I'm running Ubuntu Karmic desktop with the standard PAE kernel: Linux narancs 2.6.31-20-generic-pae #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 10:23:59 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

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  • Discussion - Allowing / blocking user access to pages / Client Side Validation (Client Side Only!) -

    - by Ozaki
    TLDR Using plain HTML / Javascript (Client Side) I want to prevent viewing of certain pages. The user will have to type a username and password and depending on that they get access to different pages. Answers can NOT include server side whatsoever It does not matter if they can break it easily. There is no sensitive information etc. Also the target audience will not have access to internet OR probably know what a cookie is... At some point the user will have to type username / password.(I can define the cookie here) Currently I thought of using cookies to set a cookie for each page to say "true" / "false" but that would get messy with so many cookies. Or setting an array within a cookie for each page? I have div field "#Content" which as it looks encompasses all of my content on the page so blocking out content will be as simple as replacing it with ("sorry you don't have access") etc. For Example: $.cookie("Access","page1, page2, page3"{ expires: 1 }); I am looking for anyway to do this does not have to be with cookies. Would be nice to get a discussion of different ways this can be done. So the question is: What do YOU think would be a good way to go about doing this with client side validation? Also on another note discussion on how to make client side more secure or ways to do so are acceptable.

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  • What are the options for hosting a small Plone site? [closed]

    - by Tina Russell
    Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I’ve developed a portfolio website for myself using Plone 4, and I’m looking for someplace to host it. Most Plone hosting services seem to focus on large, corporate deployments, but I need something that I can afford on a very limited budget and fits a small, single-admin website. My understanding is that my basic options are thus: I can go with a hosting service that specifically provides Plone. I know of WebFaction, but what others exist? Also, I’d have two stipulations for a Plone hosting service: (a) It needs to use Plone 4, for which I’ve developed my site, and (b) it needs to allow me SSH access to a home directory (including the Plone configuration), so that I may use my custom development eggs and such. I could use a VPS hosting service. What are my options here? Again, I need something cheap and scaled to my level. I could use Amazon EC2 or a similar service (please tell me of any) and pay by the tiniest unit of data. I’m a little scared of this because I have no idea how to do a cost-benefit analysis between this and a regular VPS host. The advantage of this approach would be that I only pay for what I use, making it very scalable, but I don’t know how the overall cost would compare to any VPS host under similar circumstances. What factors enter into the cost of Amazon EC2? What can I expect to pay under either option for regular traffic for a new website? Which one is more desirable for when a rush of visitors drive up my bandwidth bill? One last note: I know Plone isn’t common for websites for individuals, but please don’t try to talk me out of it here; that’s a completely different subject. For now, assume I’m sticking with Plone for good. Also, I have seen the Plone hosting services list on Plone.org—it’s twenty pages long, and the first page was nothing but professional Plone consulting services that sometimes offer hosting for business clients. So, that wasn’t much help. Thank you!

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  • Develop web site from existing software or cherry pick and use a web framework?

    - by erisco
    A small team and I are tasked with developing a web site. The client has referenced a particular open source project (we'll call it X) when describing some of the features. Because of this, the team wants to start with X and adapt it to satisfy the client. I have looked at X and its code and, in my opinion, it would be unwise. However, my experience is limited, and could really benefit from the insights of others so that I can figure out what I should be asserting as the right direction for the team. My red flags are going up and this is why. X was developed in the earlier days of PHP; 500 line blocks of code are the norm; global variables are abundant; giant switch cases are the norm for switching between which page is shown. There is no clear mapping between URL and where the code for that page sits. From a feature-set standpoint, X is actually software specialized for a different task and has dozens of features we don't need or have use for that come as core assumptions. We will be unable to adapt X through its plugin system. That said, there are a few features which can be mapped, with some modification, to suit our purposes. I believe this is the attraction the team feels. I would feel comfortable if, instead of using X directly, we lifted what is salvageable and useful to us. We can then use that code, and the same 3rd party libraries X is using, in a new code base built on top of a PHP web framework (particularly Agavi, so you understand what I mean by 'web framework'). The web framework gives us a strong MVC structure and provides the common facilities for web development, or adapters to work with 3rd party libraries that do so. We will also have a clean slate feature-wise to work from, which means we can work additively instead of subtractively. Because the code base is better structured, and contains none of what we don't need, it will be easier to document, which is a critical requirement of our client. So to summarize, the team wants to use X, whereas I want to take the bits we can from X and use a web framework instead. I want to bounce this opinion off of other's experiences so that I can be more informed. Thanks for your insight.

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  • What can I do to lower bandwidth cost on a bandwidth heavy site?

    - by acidzombie24
    The easiest answer is CDN but I'd like to ask. A friend of mine has a server that is used for mirror downloads. He says he is doing about 10TB of bandwidth a month which shocked me (I wonder if he is lying). I seen his site and he has no ads. I suspect he might close his website once he gets the bill. Anyways I was wondering since his CPU/RAM is not being used and his HD usage is around 15gb what he can do to lower cost if he continues this site. I said put up ads but I don't know if ads would cover it I found one CDN which offers $0.070 / GB. 10240gb (10TB) * .07 = $717 a month. That seems a little steep but he is using lots of traffic due to it being a mirror site. Also using a CDN doesnt make sense as he doesn't need multiple servers hosting the files in different areas (which is one reason he isn't using that now). He just needs a big upload pipe Is there something he can do? At the moment he is paying $200 a month on a dedicated server and he is using WAY more bandwidth then he should be using. Side question: Can gz-ing files large already compressed files help? like on (zip, rars, etc)

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  • How can I track down what part of pfsense is blocking website access?

    - by Chase Florell
    I've got a PFSense firewall/gateway on our network. Everything works great except for the fact that I cannot access one specific website. Pfsense is running the following packages Country Block LightSquid nmap notes squid squidGuard Strikeback I can access every single website I've ever tried aside from one that we need for business use (http://bridalnetwork.ca) here's the traceroute frodo:~ chase$ traceroute bridalnetwork.ca traceroute to bridalnetwork.ca (192.197.103.73), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 rohan (192.168.5.1) 6.618 ms 1.662 ms 9.207 ms 2 * * * 3 * * rohan (192.168.5.1) 7.225 ms !H 4 rohan (192.168.5.1) 5.314 ms !H 5.701 ms !H 7.573 ms !H frodo:~ chase$ How can I figure out what the reason behind the blockage is? note: this has been tested on every computer on the network with the same results. ps: the pfsense box is 'rohan' (192.168.5.1) Here's what I get with Squid enabled and here's what I get with Squid disabled

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  • How to run a WebPy server on port 8080 using DDNS of dlink router and to access this site from internet?

    - by nuke1010
    I have two major issue with setting up a web server using my dlink DIR-600L router. Issue 1: I run a WebPy server on port 8080. But the DDNS service providers (like dlinkddns.com or dyndns.org) only allows port 80. I can run the server in port 80 with sudo command. But my server become vulnerable if i give root access. So I tried port forwarding in the router and server. But no use. I don't know if I done that correctly. Issue 2: Even though the server runs on port 80, I can access my site from my local machines only using registered domain names ( say, nikz.dyndns.org). No one on internet cannot load this site even when its totally up. As I observed server log, the request from other clients never reached my server. I need to run this server on port 8080 and i need to access this site from internet. How can I do it? any idea?

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  • How can I simulate blocking RTMP over port 80 on Windows?

    - by Christian Nunciato
    It seems like this should be so simple, but since this isn't my area of expertise, I'm having a hell of a time figuring out how to do it. Basically, I have a Flash app and I'm connecting to a Flash Media Server to stream some content. The URL I'm using to do this, for example, looks like this: rtmp://someserver.com/some/path/mp3:somefile Everything works -- but that's sort of the problem. When I'm trying to do is simulate my users attempting to play back my media under more restrictive conditions than the ones I have here (i.e., none) -- namely being stuck behind firewalls or proxy servers that block access to RTMP streams. Flash, according to Adobe, is equipped to handle proxy servers and firewalls automatically, like so (from the docs): When you do not specify a port number in an RTMP address, Flash will attempt to connect to port 1935. If it fails it will then try to connect to port 443; if that fails, it will try port 80. [And if that fails, it will attempt to connect via RTMPT (i.e., HTTP tunneling) on port 80.] So no coding is required to access ports 1935, 443, or port 80 if you do not specify a port in the RTMP address. The problem I'm having is setting up a reliable environment in which to test that this behavior actually happens. I'm on a Windows machine, for example, so with Windows Firewall, I can block certain ports and protocols (1935, 443), but I don't want to block port 80, because the final fallback protocol (RTMPT) is supposed to run on port 80, and Windows Firewall only gives me enough granularity (as far as I know, anyway) to block "all outbound TCP traffic to remote port 80" -- that is, I can't, apparently, block "all outbound RTMP traffic to port 80" while leaving RTMPT traffic to port 80 unaffected. My understanding thus far is that I'll probably need to set up a proxy server to do this. Is this correct? Or is there a simpler way (on Win 7, at least) to filter out RTMP to 1935, RTMP to 443, RTMP to 80, but still allow RTMPT to 80 (where all four hostnames are identical)? And if I do have to set up a proxy server, what's the simplest way to go on Windows? I've set up WinProxy, which seems a bit janky but apparently works -- but then what I can't figure out is how to tell Windows to force all TCP traffic (including RTMP, RTMPT and HTTO) through this proxy server so I can turn around and reject the requests for RTMP. Any help would be hugely appreciated. This isn't my realm of expertise and I've alreasdy spent more time on it than I probably should. :)

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  • Snort [PFSense] is configured but not blocking or generating alerts!

    - by Chase Florell
    I've got PFSense V 2.0-RC1 (i386) and I've got the latest version of Snort installed I've loaded up a bunch of rules from Oinkmaster, I've enabled all of the preprocessors, and I've ensured the service is started. When I let it sit for a while and then check my Alerts and Block list, there are no entries. Even when I test it by logging into Skype (skype is listed as a Rule from P2P), I don't get any entries in the logs. If you need any further information, please let me know... I simply can't figure this one out.

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  • Is there any way to set up a malware-blocking transparent proxy on an Airport Extreme?

    - by Chris R
    I'd like to add some kind of easily-administered transparent HTTP proxy to my home network. Ideally, it would allow me to, for example, redirect web requests to blacklisted servers into nothing, block certain kinds of content, et al. My home network at the moment consists of a mac mini media server that could -- if the load wasn't huge -- fill this role as well, an Airport Extreme, and a mac laptop that is my main machine. I'm reasonably technically savvy, so don't spare the complicated answers.

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  • What is the best solution for ad blocking with FireFox and Explorer 8?

    - by Edward Tanguay
    What is the best way to block annoying ads but allow useful ads on Firefox and Explorer (8), basically I would like to: block animated flash ads block animated silverlight ads block animated gif ads allow subtle google ads and ads on e.g. StackOverflow which are graphics but often useful information allow flash in general allow silverlight in general allow animated gif in general What is the best way to strike this balance?

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  • SPF blocking some emails. How to complete disable it?

    - by Rafael Colucci
    We have configured a SMTP server on IIS. We have not configured any SPF rule. Some emails are going straight to the badmail folder. Most of them have this error message: Address does not pass the Sender Policy Framework Is there any way to disable that? I know this is insecure and spammers could use it to send spam, but I really need it to be disabled for now until I have configured and tested the SPF correctly.

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  • How to whitelist a domain while blocking forgeries using that domain?

    - by QuantumMechanic
    How do you deal with the case of: wanting to whitelist a domain so that emails from it won't get eaten, but not having emails forged to appear to be from that domain get bogusly whitelisted whitelist_from_recvd looks promising, but then you have to know at least the TLD of every host that could send you mail from that domain. Often RandomBigCompany.com will outsource email to one or more sending companies (like Constant Contact and the like) in addition to using servers that reverse-resolve to something in its own domain. But it looks like whitelist_from_recvd can only map to one sending server pattern so that would be problematic. Is there a way to say something like "if email is from domain X, subtract N points from the spam score"? The idea would be that if the mail is legit, that -N will all but guarantee it isn't considered spam. But if it is spam, hopefully all the other failed tests will render it spam even with the -N being included.

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  • Python soap using soaplib (server) and suds (client)

    - by Celso Axelrud
    This question is related to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1751027/python-soap-server-client In the case of soap with python, there are recommendation to use soaplib (http://wiki.github.com/jkp/soaplib) as soap server and suds (https://fedorahosted.org/suds/) as soap client. My target is to create soap services in python that can be consumed by several clients (java, etc). I tried the HelloWorld example from soaplib (http://trac.optio.webfactional.com/wiki/HelloWorld). It works well when the client is also using soaplib. Then, I tried to use suds as client consuming the HelloWorld services and it fail. -Why this is happening? Does soaplib server has problems to consumed by different clients? Here the code for the server: from soaplib.wsgi_soap import SimpleWSGISoapApp from soaplib.service import soapmethod from soaplib.serializers.primitive import String, Integer, Arraycode class HelloWorldService(SimpleWSGISoapApp): @soapmethod(String,Integer,_returns=Array(String)) def say_hello(self,name,times): results = [] for i in range(0,times): results.append('Hello, %s'%name) return results if __name__=='__main__': from cherrypy.wsgiserver import CherryPyWSGIServer #from cherrypy._cpwsgiserver import CherryPyWSGIServer # this example uses CherryPy2.2, use cherrypy.wsgiserver.CherryPyWSGIServer for CherryPy 3.0 server = CherryPyWSGIServer(('localhost',7789),HelloWorldService()) server.start() This is the soaplib client: from soaplib.client import make_service_client from SoapServerTest_1 import HelloWorldService client = make_service_client('http://localhost:7789/',HelloWorldService()) print client.say_hello("Dave",5) Results: >>> ['Hello, Dave', 'Hello, Dave', 'Hello, Dave', 'Hello, Dave', 'Hello, Dave'] This is the suds client: from suds.client import Client url = 'http://localhost:7789/HelloWordService?wsdl' client1 = Client(url) client1.service.say_hello("Dave",5) Results: >>> Unhandled exception while debugging... Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\RTEP\Sequencing\SoapClientTest_1.py", line 10, in <module> client1.service.say_hello("Dave",5) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\client.py", line 537, in __call__ return client.invoke(args, kwargs) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\client.py", line 597, in invoke result = self.send(msg) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\client.py", line 626, in send result = self.succeeded(binding, reply.message) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\client.py", line 658, in succeeded r, p = binding.get_reply(self.method, reply) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\bindings\binding.py", line 158, in get_reply result = unmarshaller.process(nodes[0], resolved) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\umx\typed.py", line 66, in process return Core.process(self, content) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\umx\core.py", line 48, in process return self.append(content) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\umx\core.py", line 63, in append self.append_children(content) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\umx\core.py", line 140, in append_children cval = self.append(cont) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\umx\core.py", line 61, in append self.start(content) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\umx\typed.py", line 77, in start found = self.resolver.find(content.node) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\resolver.py", line 341, in find frame = Frame(result, resolved=known, ancestry=ancestry) File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\resolver.py", line 473, in __init__ resolved = type.resolve() File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\suds\xsd\sxbasic.py", line 63, in resolve raise TypeNotFound(qref) TypeNotFound: Type not found: '(string, HelloWorldService.HelloWorldService, )'

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  • Installing Fabric On Windows (Error No Module Called Readline)

    - by Jon
    I'm trying to use the Fabric 0.1.1 deploy tool (http://docs.fabfile.org/) on Windows and we're running into an issue with the readline module. I've been through various threads but can't seem to solve the issue. It's important because we can't deploy applications from Windows based machines. C:\Documents and Settings\dev\Desktop\deploy>fab Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\python\Scripts\fab-script.py", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('fabric==0.1.1', 'console_scripts', 'fab')() File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\pkg_resources.py" , line 277, in load_entry_point File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\pkg_resources.py" , line 2180, in load_entry_point File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\pkg_resources.py" , line 1913, in load File "build\bdist.win32\egg\fabric.py", line 25, in <module> **ImportError: No module named readline** Installing the module results in: **easy_install readline** Searching for readline Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/readline/ Reading http://www.python.org/ Best match: readline 2.6.4 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/readline/readline-2.6.4.tar .gz#md5=7568e8b78f383443ba57c9afec6f4285 Processing readline-2.6.4.tar.gz Running readline-2.6.4\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\docume~1\ji81b9~1.che \locals~1\temp\easy_install-pzkz1a\readline-2.6.4\egg-dist-tmp-szs2ps Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\python\Scripts\easy_install-script.py", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c9', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')() File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\comman d\easy_install.py", line 1671, in main File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\comman d\easy_install.py", line 1659, in with_ei_usage File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\comman d\easy_install.py", line 1675, in <lambda> File "c:\python\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File "c:\python\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 975, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "c:\python\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 995, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\comman d\easy_install.py", line 211, in run File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\comman d\easy_install.py", line 446, in easy_install File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\comman d\easy_install.py", line 476, in install_item File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\comman d\easy_install.py", line 655, in install_eggs File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\comman d\easy_install.py", line 930, in build_and_install File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\comman d\easy_install.py", line 919, in run_setup File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\sandbo x.py", line 27, in run_setup File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\sandbo x.py", line 63, in run File "c:\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg\setuptools\sandbo x.py", line 29, in <lambda> File "setup.py", line 93, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'symlink' Has anybody solved this issue or can anybody suggest a workaround?

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  • Simple-Talk development: a quick history lesson

    - by Michael Williamson
    Up until a few months ago, Simple-Talk ran on a pure .NET stack, with IIS as the web server and SQL Server as the database. Unfortunately, the platform for the site hadn’t quite gotten the love and attention it deserved. On the one hand, in the words of our esteemed editor Tony “I’d consider the current platform to be a “success”; it cost $10K, has lasted for 6 years, was finished, end to end in 6 months, and although we moan about it has got us quite a long way.” On the other hand, it was becoming increasingly clear that it needed some serious work. Among other issues, we had authors that wouldn’t blog because our current blogging platform, Community Server, was too painful for them to use. Forgetting about Simple-Talk for a moment, if you ask somebody what blogging platform they’d choose, the odds are they’d say WordPress. Regardless of its technical merits, it’s probably the most popular blogging platform, and it certainly seemed easier to use than Community Server. The issue was that WordPress is normally hosted on a Linux stack running PHP, Apache and MySQL — quite a difference from our Microsoft technology stack. We certainly didn’t want to rewrite the entire site — we just wanted a better blogging platform, with the rest of the existing, legacy site left as is. At a very high level, Simple-Talk’s technical design was originally very straightforward: when your browser sends an HTTP request to Simple-Talk, IIS (the web server) takes the request, does some work, and sends back a response. In order to keep the legacy site running, except with WordPress running the blogs, a different design is called for. We now use nginx as a reverse-proxy, which can then delegate requests to the appropriate application: So, when your browser sends a request to Simple-Talk, nginx takes that request and checks which part of the site you’re trying to access. Most of the time, it just passes the request along to IIS, which can then respond in much the same way it always has. However, if your request is for the blogs, then nginx delegates the request to WordPress. Unfortunately, as simple as that diagram looks, it hides an awful lot of complexity. In particular, the legacy site running on IIS was made up of four .NET applications. I’ve already mentioned one of these applications, Community Server, which handled the old blogs as well as managing membership and the forums. We have a couple of other applications to manage both our newsletters and our articles, and our own custom application to do some of the rendering on the site, such as the front page and the articles. When I say that it was made up of four .NET applications, this might conjure up an image in your mind of how they fit together: You might imagine four .NET applications, each with their own database, communicating over well-defined APIs. Sadly, reality was a little disappointing: We had four .NET applications that all ran on the same database. Worse still, there were many queries that happily joined across tables from multiple applications, meaning that each application was heavily dependent on the exact data schema that each other application used. Add to this that many of the queries were at least dozens of lines long, and practically identical to other queries except in a few key spots, and we can see that attempting to replace one component of the system would be more than a little tricky. However, the problems with the old system do give us a good place to start thinking about desirable qualities from any changes to the platform. Specifically: Maintainability — the tight coupling between each .NET application made it difficult to update any one application without also having to make changes elsewhere Replaceability — the tight coupling also meant that replacing one component wouldn’t be straightforward, especially if it wasn’t on a similar Microsoft stack. We’d like to be able to replace different parts without having to modify the existing codebase extensively Reusability — we’d like to be able to combine the different pieces of the system in different ways for different sites Repeatable deployments — rather than having to deploy the site manually with a long list of instructions, we should be able to deploy the entire site with a single command, allowing you to create a new instance of the site easily whether on production, staging servers, test servers or your own local machine Testability — if we can deploy the site with a single command, and each part of the site is no longer dependent on the specifics of how every other part of the site works, we can begin to run automated tests against the site, and against individual parts, both to prevent regressions and to do a little test-driven development In the next part, I’ll describe the high-level architecture we now have that hopefully brings us a little closer to these five traits.

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  • Announcing the New Windows Azure Web Sites Shared Scaling Tier

    - by Clint Edmonson
    Windows Azure Web Sites has added a new pricing tier that will solve the #1 blocker for the web development community. The shared tier now supports custom domain names mapped to shared-instance web sites. This post will outline the plan changes and elaborate on how the new pricing model makes Windows Azure Web Sites an even richer option for web development shops of all sizes. Free Shared Reserved # of Sites 10 100 100 Egress 165MB/Day 5GB/Month Included 5GB/Month Included Storage 1GB 1GB 10GB Throttling CPU/Memory/Egress CPU/Memory Unlimited Price Free $.02/hr per site, per instance $.08/hr per core Setting the Stage In June, we released the first public preview of Windows Azure Web Sites, which gave web developers a great platform on which to get web sites running using their web development framework of choice. PHP, Node.js, classic ASP, and ASP.NET developers can all utilize the Windows Azure platform to create and launch their web sites. Likewise, these developers have a series of data storage options using Windows Azure SQL Databases, MySQL, or Windows Azure Storage. The Windows Azure Web Sites free offer enabled startups to get their site up and running on Windows Azure with a minimal investment, and with multiple deployment and continuous integration features such as Git, Team Foundation Services, FTP, and Web Deploy.  The response to the Windows Azure Web Sites offer has been overwhelmingly positive. Since the addition of the service on June 12th, tens of thousands of web sites have been deployed to Windows Azure and the volume of adoption is increasing every week. Preview Feedback In spite of the growth and success of the product, the community has had questions about features lacking in the free preview offer. The main question web developers asked regarding Windows Azure Web Sites relates to the lack of the free offer’s support for domain name mapping. During the preview launch period, customer feedback made it obvious that the lack of domain name mapping support was an area of concern. We’re happy to announce that this #1 request has been delivered as a feature of the new shared plan. New Shared Tier Portal Features In the screen shot below, the “Scale” tab in the portal shows the new tiers – Free, Shared, and Reserved – and gives the user the ability to quickly move any of their free web sites into the shared tier. With a single mouse-click, the user can move their site into the shared tier. Once a site has been moved into the shared tier, a new Manage Domains button appears in the bottom action bar of the Windows Azure Portal giving site owners the ability to manage their domain names for a shared site. This button brings up the domain-management dialog, which can be used to enter in a specific domain name that will be mapped to the Windows Azure Web Site. Shared Tier Benefits Startups and large web agencies will both benefit from this plan change. Here are a few examples of scenarios which fit the new pricing model: Startups no longer have to select the reserved plan to map domain names to their sites. Instead, they can use the free option to develop their sites and choose on a site-by-site basis which sites they elect to move into the shared plan, paying only for the sites that are finished and ready to be domain-mapped Agencies who manage dozens of sites will realize a lower cost of ownership over the long term by moving their sites into reserved mode. Once multi-site companies reach a certain price point in the shared tier, it is much more cost-effective to move sites to a reserved tier.  Long-term, it’s easy to see how the new Windows Azure Web Sites shared pricing tier makes Windows Azure Web Sites it a great choice for both startups and agency customers, as it enables rapid growth and upgrades while keeping the cost to a minimum. Large agencies will be able to have all of their sites in their own instances, and startups will have the capability to scale up to multiple-shared instances for minimal cost and eventually move to reserved instances without worrying about the need to incur continually additional costs. Customers can feel confident they have the power of the Microsoft Windows Azure brand and our world-class support, at prices competitive in the market. Plus, in addition to realizing the cost savings, they’ll have the whole family of Windows Azure features available. Continuous Deployment from GitHub and CodePlex Along with this new announcement are two other exciting new features. I’m proud to announce that web developers can now publish their web sites directly from CodePlex or GitHub.com repositories. Once connections are established between these services and your web sites, Windows Azure will automatically be notified every time a check-in occurs. This will then trigger Windows Azure to pull the source and compile/deploy the new version of your app to your web site automatically. Walk-through videos on how to perform these functions are below: Publishing to an Azure Web Site from CodePlex Publishing to an Azure Web Site from GitHub.com These changes, as well as the enhancements to the reserved plan model, make Windows Azure Web Sites a truly competitive hosting option. It’s never been easier or cheaper for a web developer to get up and running. Check out the free Windows Azure web site offering and see for yourself. Stay tuned to my twitter feed for Windows Azure announcements, updates, and links: @clinted

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  • Getting a KeyError in DB backend of django-digest

    - by rtmie
    I have just started to integrate django_digest into my app. As a start I have added the @httpdigest decorator to one of my views. If I try to connect to it I get a KeyError exception thrown in django_digest/backend/db.py . Depending on which db I configure I get a different KeyError in a different location. I am using Django 1.2.1, with MySql (also tested with sqlite). I am using the default values for all the settings options. As far as I can see I have followed all instructions but am struggling all day with this. I am using the repository versions of django-digest and python-digest. Any steer would be greatly appreciated. Tracebacks for sqlite and mysql below: with sqlite: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 674, in __call__ return self.application(environ, start_response) File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 248, in __call__ signals.request_finished.send(sender=self.__class__) File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/dispatch/dispatcher.py", line 162, in send response = receiver(signal=self, sender=sender, **named) File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_digest-1.8-py2.5.egg/django_digest/backend/db.py", line 16, in close_connection _connection.close() File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 186, in close if self.settings_dict['NAME'] != ":memory:": KeyError: 'NAME' with mysql: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/servers/basehttp.py", line 674, in __call__ return self.application(environ, start_response) File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 241, in __call__ response = self.get_response(request) File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 142, in get_response return self.handle_uncaught_exception(request, resolver, exc_info) File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 166, in handle_uncaught_exception return debug.technical_500_response(request, *exc_info) File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 80, in get_response response = middleware_method(request) File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_digest-1.8-py2.5.egg/django_digest/middleware.py", line 13, in process_request if (not self._authenticator.authenticate(request) and File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_digest-1.8-py2.5.egg/django_digest/__init__.py", line 86, in authenticate partial_digest = self._account_storage.get_partial_digest(digest_response.username) File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django_digest-1.8-py2.5.egg/django_digest/backend/db.py", line 97, in get_partial_digest cursor = get_connection().cursor() File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/__init__.py", line 75, in cursor cursor = self._cursor() File "/home/robm/projects/gcs/server/gcs2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 281, in _cursor if settings_dict['USER']: KeyError: 'USER'

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  • Django - I got TemplateSyntaxError when I try open the admin page. (http://DOMAIN_NAME/admin)

    - by user140827
    I use grappelly plugin. When I try open the admin page (/admin) I got TemplateSyntaxError. It says 'get_generic_relation_list' is invalid block tag. TemplateSyntaxError at /admin/ Invalid block tag: 'get_generic_relation_list', expected 'endblock' Request Method: GET Request URL: http://DOMAIN_NAME/admin/ Django Version: 1.4 Exception Type: TemplateSyntaxError Exception Value: Invalid block tag: 'get_generic_relation_list', expected 'endblock' Exception Location: /opt/python27/django/1.4/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/base.py in invalid_block_tag, line 320 Python Executable: /opt/python27/django/1.4/bin/python Python Version: 2.7.0 Python Path: ['/home/vhosts/DOMAIN_NAME/httpdocs/media', '/home/vhosts/DOMAIN_NAME/private/new_malinnikov/lib', '/home/vhosts/DOMAIN_NAME/httpdocs/', '/home/vhosts/DOMAIN_NAME/private/new_malinnikov', '/home/vhosts/DOMAIN_NAME/private/new_malinnikov', '/home/vhosts/DOMAIN_NAME/private', '/opt/python27/django/1.4', '/home/vhosts/DOMAIN_NAME/httpdocs', '/opt/python27/django/1.4/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r88846-py2.7.egg', '/opt/python27/django/1.4/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-0.8.1-py2.7.egg', '/opt/python27/django/1.4/lib/python27.zip', '/opt/python27/django/1.4/lib/python2.7', '/opt/python27/django/1.4/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/opt/python27/django/1.4/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/opt/python27/django/1.4/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/opt/python27/django/1.4/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/opt/python27/django/1.4/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flup-1.0.3.dev_20100525-py2.7.egg', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv-1.5.1-py2.7.egg', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.6.4-py2.7.egg', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SQLObject-0.14.1-py2.7.egg', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/FormEncode-1.2.3dev-py2.7.egg', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2-2.2.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pysqlite-2.6.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/opt/python27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL'] Server time: ???, 7 ??? 2012 04:19:42 +0700 Error during template rendering In template /home/vhosts/DOMAIN_NAME/httpdocs/templates/grappelli/admin/base.html, error at line 28 Invalid block tag: 'get_generic_relation_list', expected 'endblock' 18 <!--[if lt IE 8]> 19 <script src="http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/version/2.0(beta3)/IE8.js" type="text/javascript"></script> 20 <![endif]--> 21 {% block javascripts %} 22 <script type="text/javascript" src="{% admin_media_prefix %}jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> 23 <script type="text/javascript" src="{% admin_media_prefix %}js/admin/Bookmarks.js"></script> 24 <script type="text/javascript"> 25 // Admin URL 26 var ADMIN_URL = "{% get_admin_url %}"; 27 // Generic Relations 28 {% get_generic_relation_list %} 29 // Get Bookmarks 30 $(document).ready(function(){ 31 $.ajax({ 32 type: "GET", 33 url: '{% url grp_bookmark_get %}', 34 data: "path=" + escape(window.location.pathname + window.location.search), 35 dataType: "html", 36 success: function(data){ 37 $('ul#bookmarks').replaceWith(data); 38 }

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  • Will using two different tracking codes affect my SERP

    - by Danny Hefer
    Hello everyone and thanks for your time! I am now facing a problem after a site migration. New site is basically an improved version of old site, with the same content and some extras. After pointing the domain name to the new site, the old site was still online for a while but didn't get any traffic. The new site has its own tracking code. So, old tracking code has age (something like 7 years) but no visitors for a month, but new tracking code is a month old with an acceptable traffic. How to you think google will react if I add old tracking code to new site? Thanks by advance!

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  • How long should I keep 301 redirecting pages from a deprecated domain?

    - by ElHaix
    I had an old domain that I have deprecated, but 301 redirected all results from it to my new site. The new site is now receiving a decent amount of traffic, but I don't know if it's 301 redirected from the old site, and doing a site:[old site] still shows several thousand pages indexed. Since all pages from the old site are 301 redirected, will they ever be removed from the index, as long as the old domain name is active? As a rule of thumb, somewhere I got 90 days for any significant site changes. When is it safe to burn the old domain?

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  • Automatically Reset Theme To Default, SharePoint 2010

    - by KunaalKapoor
    Manually/Through UIOn the top link bar, click Site Settings.On the Site Management page, in the Customization section, click Apply theme to site.On the Apply Theme to Web Site page, select No Theme(Default) from the list.Click Apply.Through Scriptfunction Apply-SPDefaultTheme([string]$SiteUrl, [string]$webName){$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($SiteUrl)$web = $site.OpenWeb($webName)$theme = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.ThmxTheme]::RemoveThemeFromWeb($web,$false)$web.Update()$web.Dispose()$site.Dispose()}After looking in the SPTHEMES.XML file found in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033 folder, you do see there is a theme with a theme name of "none". Since there is no "default" theme in 2010. So make sure if you wanna reset it to default you know that there is no default, you need to select 'none' :)

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