Re: [libreoffice-website] [SC] Decision about CMS

Le 2010-10-22 21:03, Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
> Hi Marc, *,
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Marc Paré<marc@marcpare.com>  wrote:
> > Ok, I am more of a user than a dev, as you have probably seen from my posts.
> > To get to the "user" demo site, I am on a Mandriva system. How would I then
> > access your demo site. I don't quite understand why the test site is not
> > viewable directly. Or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Because those hostnames are not registered in a dns server.
>
> When you request a site with a name "name.of.site", your computer asks
> a domain name server for the ip the server belongs to. now your
> computer knows that the request needs to be sent to the address
> 171.24.1.242 for example.
> But there are no such entries for de.pumbaa.ooodev.org or
> sandbox.pumbaa.ooodev.org or silverbox.pumbaa.ooodev.org - thus when
> you don't add the host-entries, your computer again asks the dns
> server and that reponds with "sorry, don't know its address" and you
> get a host not found.
>
> By manually adding the listing to your hostfile, your computer doesn't
> need to ask the DNS server, since it can already read that information
> from the /etc/hosts file, knows that sandbox.pumbaa.ooodev.org is
> reachable with the ip address 188.40.32.145
>
> So on linux, edit the file /etc/hosts as root user. It should by
> default contain a line
> "127.0.0.1         localhost" append the lines
>
> 188.40.32.145 silverbox.pumbaa.ooodev.org
> 188.40.32.145 sandbox.pumbaa.ooodev.org
> 188.40.32.145 de.pumbaa.ooodev.org
>
> to that file and save and close the file. Now you can access the sites.
>
> As you can see all three (and pumbaa.ooodev.org itself as well) use
> the same IP, the hostname is used to distinguish the subsites in this
> case.
>
> ciao
> Christian

Thanks.

I am just a little confused. I thought I had been on your demo site a 
while ago and now it is no longer accessible from the member list unless 
they go through this setup?

I was wondering if this was a common method of operating with demos, as 
most of the membership could not in fact test-try your demo for 
comparison's sake. On the other hand, maybe you removed the site from an 
easier access venue to this type of access?

Just wondering.

Marc


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