Aule Home Pages

I started a separate Aule Pages blog for the home pages that I have begun to build at pages.aule-browser.com

A home page is an "aule" when it is designed as a starting-point or entry-point.

The first aule offered will be free home pages intended to be useful templates for people interested in poetry.

These aule pages will be followed by pages for science and then for philosophy.

The simplest pages will be in HTML with richer pages in HTML + JavaScript and the richest pages will be built in the Curl language from www.curl.com

Once an aule page is built, it can be used from a local PC or netbook or copied to a useful place on the internet.  If it is added to an internet site then it is available to you when you are on a public PC at a library, for example.  Whether it needs to be on a secure server on the internet will depend on its content.

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++)