Global Moxie

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