Global Moxie

The "Reanimator" beta update adds an import tool for v1.x sites and accounts, letting your legacy Big Medium sites breathe the sweet, sweet air of Big Medium 2.

You'll find instructions and troubleshooting tips for the importer in a new section inside the installation guide that comes with the download. Or, just give it a whirl by choosing "Settings>Import Legacy Sites" in the control panel.

I've got most of the kinks ironed out of the importer, but there are some inevitable discrepancies and incompatibilities between Big Medium versions 1.x and 2.0. If you have questions or get some odd results, give me a shout in the discussion forum.

Also new in this version:

• A password-reset utility and account name reminder
• Ability to display article-page images outside of the main body text
• Option to include the modification date in link content
• Additional date format options in site properties
• Improved sort handling in the edit menu
• Improved security
• A whole slew of bug fixes

Download the latest version of Big Medium here.

Upgrading from 2.0b26?

If you're upgrading from v2.0b26, you can update to the new version by uploading only the following files. Except where noted below, upload all files in "plain text" (or "ASCII") mode.

In bmadmin

• bmadmin/index.html
  Update the two URLs in the file as described in the two comments inside the file.

In bmadmin/js

• bigmedium_cp.js
• bm-config.js
• bm-css.js

In moxiebin

• bm-import.cgi (set to chmod 755)
• bm-reset.cgi (set to chmod 755)
• Modules/BigMed.pm
• Modules/BigMed (directory and all contents)

In moxiedata/support

Upload these files in "automatic" or "binary" mode.

• v1assets (directory and all contents)

In moxiedata/templates/cp_templates

• screen_import_progress.tmpl
• screen_login_login.tmpl
• screen_reset_request.tmpl

In moxiedata/templates/site_templates

• _navcss (directory and all contents)
• base.css
• HTML/wi_navigation.tmpl

After uploading the files...

After uploading the 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

The Nitty Gritty

New Features

• Added "Import Legacy Sites" option to settings menu to allow administrators to import accounts and sites from Big Medium 1.x installations. (Instructions and troubleshooting tips are in the installation guide).

• Added the password-reset utility and account name reminder for users who forget their account names and/or passwords.

• Added new "other" position when saving/editing images, documents and media. This lets you show images outside of the main body text via <%images limit="other"%>.

• Added the option to include the modification date in link content (in the "Links" panel of "Settings>HTML Preferences"). (Hat tip to Sander Feinberg.)

• Added additional date format options in "Settings>Site Properties."

• Improved sort handling in the edit menu.

• Added additional security protections against email header injection exploits.

• The style editor currently works only for sites in the same domain where the Big Medium control panel is installed; I'm working on this, but in the meantime, I added a message to the style editor to explain that it's not available when you try to edit styles for a site in a different domain.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bugs that caused Windows not to complete page builds or version updates (sometimes with an error message, sometimes not).

• Changed filename convention for auto-generated thumbnails to work around bug in Windows servers.

• Fixed bug that prevented the display of library images entered as a URL instead of file upload.

• Fixed bug that caused parentheses in submitted fields to be converted into linefeeds in servers running Perl 5.6. (Hat tip to Karen Kaiser.)

• Fixed bug that prevented Markdown cheatsheet from showing up. (Hat tip to Kevin Waite.)

• Fixed regression bug in Firefox that could cause data gobbledygook to appear on the screen after saving images and documents under certain conditions.

• Fixed bug that caused style-editor styles to get temporarily cleared after saving navigation styles.

• Fixed bug that prevented the style editor from saving settings in older versions of Safari (specifically, when a font name contained more than one word).

• Fixed bug that can cause code to appear in the progress bar in a race-condition collision when server is updating status file. (Hat tip to Sander Feinberg.)

• Fixed bug that caused <%overflow%> widget tag to go unreplaced in section templates with no link widgets.

• Sites' custom templates are now properly removed when sites are deleted.

• Fixed bug that prevented link thumbnails from aligning correctly when the "original" image size is the selected format for thumbnails. (Hat tip to Karen Kaiser.)

• Fixed bug that commonly prevented welcome email from being sent after creating a new account. (Hat tip to Steve Carter.)

• Fixed a bug in the setup wizard that could cause code to appear in status field of directory validators in setup wizard when the session has expired.

• Fixed bug that prevented display of subsection navigation for sections marked to be excluded from navigation.

• Added missing "Review/Delete Sites" option to the main settings page.

• Added missing "Edit Links" option to the "Edit" menu.

• Fixed typo in CSS styles generated by style editor for hovered navigation menus.