Re: 5.1 initial experiences

On 08/28/2014 10:30 PM, Tamas Balazs wrote:
>> -After swapping a pre-added template it did not got reflected on the
>> blog – I had to restart tomcat to see the changes.
>>
> I'm not sure what "swapping" means in this context.  I think there's an auto-refresh option for templates configurable in roller-custom.properties.  I've never had a need to use or test it though.
>
> |||WHEN I CHANGED (SWAPPED) TEMPLATE IT DIDN'T GET REFLECETD. I HAVE AUTO-REFRESH OPTION IN DEFAULT MODE - WHATEVER IS THAT|||

I don't what you mean by "changed" or "swapped", did you manually go to 
the expanded WAR in Tomcat and change the files there?  That indeed 
wouldn't be picked up unless you restarted Tomcat.  But if you edited 
your pages within the template edit page of the UI they should have gone 
into effect immediately.

According to roller.properties, this is the property to use:

# Allow theme reloading during development
# 1. You must be logged in.
# 2. Delete the style-sheet (Design | Style Sheet tab) from the 
weblog/theme you're changing.
# 3. To reload macros under path /WEB-INF/velocity, first modify the 
macro file and then trigger
#    the reload by changing a template on the theme currently working 
on, then refresh the page.
themes.reload.mode=false

But this may not have been used or tested in years, I have no idea if it 
still works.

>
>> -One of my blog suddenly started to lose its URL structure thus giving
>> me 404. Something like example.com/test/entry/blabla has become
>> example.com/test/test/entry/blabla. This was not fun at all, so I
>> rolled everything back to 5.04.
>>
> Perhaps you did not make "test" your default blog in 5.1, which would have removed the need for one of those "test"s in the URL. That said, such a setting should have stayed with the database migration.  5.04 will work (at least until the next security advisory of one of its
> dependencies) but is architecturally a dead end.
>
> |||YOU ARE RIGHT, TEST WAS NOT MY DEFAULT BLOG|||
> |||RE SECURITY ADVISORIES WILL THERE BE ANYONE SENDING AN EMAIL TO THIS LIST QUOTING WHAT ELEMENT IS AFFECTED AND SOME REFERENCE TO THE ADVISORY?|||

5.0.1 -> 5.0.4 were all security patches.  The Roller Blog announces the 
security fix when it is released.

Glen