Big Medium 2.0b24: "Eraserhead"
Posted Sep 8, 2006
The "Eraserhead" beta update lets Big Medium administrators delete sites
via the new "Review/Delete Sites" option in the Settings menu. The
release also erases several bugs, particularly related to page builds and
version updates on Windows servers.
A special shout out to Todd Williams for the loan of a Windows 2003 test
server. A big help, thanks!
Download the latest version of Big Medium here.
The Nitty Gritty
New features in this release:
New "Review/Delete Sites" page.
If a section page has a different headline than its section name, both
names are now shown in the content editor menu (was previously only
the headline).
Added more robust linefeed normalization for cross-platform editing.
Updated to scriptaculous 1.6.4, including prototype 1.5.0_rc1.
Bug fixes in this release:
Fixed bugs that caused Windows not to complete page builds or version
updates (sometimes with an error message, sometimes not).
Fixed bug that prevented <%overflow%> link navigation from working
correctly on Windows servers (got "Access denied" error instead of next
page of links).
Fixed bug that could cause the setup wizard to show a "directory mismatch"
error for homepage and page directories when in fact there was a permission
problem.
Fixed bug that could cause incorrect URL in preview pages with
content or templates with /slash/formatted/urls.html instead of
http://domain.com/formatted/urls.html
Fixed a HTML typo on the content editor menu.
Upgrading from 2.0b23?
If you're upgrading from v2.0b23, you can upgrade by uploading
only the following files and directories listed below. Upload
all of these files in "plain-text" or ASCII mode.
In the moxiebin directory:
bm-review.cgi (Unix servers: set permissions to chmod 755)
In the moxiebin/Modules directory:
BigMed.pm
BigMed/App/Web (directory and all contents)
BigMed/Builder.pm
BigMed/DiskUtil.pm
BigMed/Driver/File.pm
BigMed/Format/HTML.pm
BigMed/Language/en_us.pm
BigMed/PageUtils.pm
BigMed/Site.pm
BigMed/Status.pm
BigMed/Update.pm
File/Copy/Recursive.pm
Or to make things easier:
BigMed.pm
BigMed (directory and all contents)
File (directory and all contents)
In the bmadmin directory:
bmadmin/css (directory and all contents)
bmadmin/js (directory and all contents)
In the moxiedata/support/assets directory:**
prototype-scriptaculous.js
In the moxiedata/templates/cp_templates directory:**
moxiedata/templates/cp_templates/screen_editor_menu.tmpl
moxiedata/templates/cp_templates/screen_review.tmpl
When you have completed uploading your files, browse to the bm-update.cgi
file in your site's moxiebin directory. For example:
http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi
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