Portal Tools plugin links

[Ralph Goers <Ra...@dslextreme.com>]

I am running Cocoon on my Linux box and am trying to access the portal 
tools plugins from my Windows box.  This does not work because the links 
are hardcoded to localhost.  I tried changing it to a relative path but 
it failed miserably.  This needs to be changed to behave like the rest 
of the portal.

Ralph

Re: Portal Tools plugin links

[Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org>]

Jens Maukisch wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
> 
> 
>>I am running Cocoon on my Linux box and am trying to access the portal
>>tools plugins from my Windows box.  This does not work because the links
>>are hardcoded to localhost.  I tried changing it to a relative path but
>>it failed miserably.  This needs to be changed to behave like the rest
>>of the portal.
> 
> 
> Yes, thats a known problem. We used the global var in the sitemap to
> set the base-tag in the head of the portal-page.xsl inside the tools,
> so that we could access the images used in the skins could be accessed
> without problems (I don't like links like ../../../../foo.gif :-))
Unfortunatly not only the images but also all the links use the base-tag :(

> Nomally you just have to set it one time to the ip/domain of your box
> if you don't move the portal from one position to another every day.
> 
> If you have a better/more elgeant/easier souloution please let me
> know.
> 
We have to change all the link/image references in the portal anyway. I 
think it's possible to get rid off this base tag by addressing all 
resources relative from the servlet context. But changing this will take 
some time; I hope to get something done in the next days.

Carsten

Re: Portal Tools plugin links

[Jens Maukisch <co...@maukisch.net>]

Hi Ralph,

> I am running Cocoon on my Linux box and am trying to access the portal
> tools plugins from my Windows box.  This does not work because the links
> are hardcoded to localhost.  I tried changing it to a relative path but
> it failed miserably.  This needs to be changed to behave like the rest
> of the portal.

Yes, thats a known problem. We used the global var in the sitemap to
set the base-tag in the head of the portal-page.xsl inside the tools,
so that we could access the images used in the skins could be accessed
without problems (I don't like links like ../../../../foo.gif :-))
Nomally you just have to set it one time to the ip/domain of your box
if you don't move the portal from one position to another every day.

If you have a better/more elgeant/easier souloution please let me
know.

-- 
* best regards
* Jens Maukisch