Showing posts with label custom Aule home pages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label custom Aule home pages. Show all posts

Monday, September 27, 2010

Swiki localhost for AniAniWeb as a personal home page.

AniAniWeb strikes me as a natural evolution of WikiWikiWeb.

But as a personal homepage, the Squeak Smalltalkers seem not to have tested on a mere netbook which is not itself running an SMTP mail server.

The reason that I note this is that setting up this Wiki as a home page requires that you simply login as 'admin' with a password  of 'password'.  Create your wiki.  But now try to use that swiki (read: edit those pages!)

The packagers did not realize that to edit, you must login, but to login you must be a user and that you can only become a user through responding to an e-mail with an e-mail.  But this is localhost on a netbook.  Ahem.

It would all be easy if they had admin:password as the values for a default user in a default XML file.  And that is in fact the solution that I offer here: place a file named 1.xml in the users folder of the default folder.

It is charming to  observe that for starters almost any garbage sufficed, because the swiki will attempt to re-write the file.  If sufficed to find which file placed where would cause the swiki to fail. And browsing the Smalltalk code helped. This is usually not a sign of secure software!  Without going through the amusing details, here is what will suffice:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<user name="admin">
<settings>
<s name="password" type="text">password</s>
<s name="address" type="text">yourname@yourmail.com</s>
<s name="sendAlerts" type="boolean">false</s>
<s name="showModified" type="boolean">true</s>
</settings>
</user>
Note that mail alerts are turned off, so the required email can be bogus.

N.B. do not save the file with a BOM (on Windows set the file's encoding using an editor such as Notepad++)

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Fredericton, NB re-location in progress ...

We are slowly settling into Fredericton, New Brunswick after 15 years in the USA. Optical fibre to the door in not yet available here along the St John River so far west of downtown, so back to DSL with Bell Aliant after a few days wait (their tech arrived at our door in a t-shirt with no id: very helpful and very Canadian.)

With the release of ObjectIcon 2.4 and a new alpha of Rebol3 pending, there will be new features in the generation of custom Aule home pages and Aule site-specific browsers.