Continued scanning images for the Lansdowne scholar; there will be one more set to do tomorrow, and then we should be done.
February 3, 2009
Tweaked one image on JS-R's instructions (the totem image) to highlight the construction fence; also worked up a set of images from pictures I took at the weekend, so we now have a large collection cycling through. That's probably enough for now. Also added some code to allow me to preview a specific image in context through a GET parameter, rather than having to reload till it happens to show up.
Also updated the registration form with the final prices, and did some minor customization work to make the header look a bit like our site. Options are limited, though, and results are a little unpredictable, so it's probably not worth putting too much work into this.
The reported problem was that the URL cybermysteres.ca pointed to the English language file mysteryquests.ca/indexen.html rather than cybermysteres.ca/indexfr.html. The two domains were supposedly pointing to the same folder (public in the mysteryquests.ca account), but my testing showed that was not the case. After a couple of hours on the phone with their tech support I arrived at the following:
Previously, the cybermysteres.ca domain had a "hosted" package, which meant an account on the server was set up to host web pages and email for that domain. That account was set up so that when the user went to cybermysteres.ca in their browser, the server forwarded the browser to mysteryquests.ca, so when the actual site got that request it saw the mysteryquests.ca and displayed the English language page. The first thing I did was to get them to change that forwarding to mysteryquests.ca/indexfr.html, so at least the French language page would appear. The problem remained that the domain name "mysteryquests.ca" rather than "cybermysteres.ca" appeared.
To solve that problem, I had to change the type of hosting package for the cybermysteres.ca account from a "hosted" type to a "domain pointing" type. That means that the cybermysteres.ca domain no longer has disk space assigned to it, and that all it does is point somewhere else. I got them to point the domain cybermysteres.ca to the public folder in the cybermysteries.ca account, which is exactly what we wanted. The change in the type of hosting package means we can't have email addresses which end in "@cybermysteres.ca". I was willing to pay that price to get the domain name to work in the browser. The contact page on the site provides admin@canadianmysteries.ca as the contact email, so that will continue to work just fine.
There is still some slightly odd behaviour with the cybmermysteres.ca domain: for example, when you go to cybermysteres.ca and start clicking around, the URL box in the browser never changes even though you are moving from page to page. Compare that with what happens when you go to mysteryquests.ca/indexfr.html (where the URL box does change as you move from page to page - which is the correct behaviour). For now, I'm willing to leave that be. That's likely because they're using a mod_rewrite instead of a mod_proxy, but I don't know.
My previous tests had used only a simple search (i.e. only the treatment field specified) and they worked. ML provided a specific example of a compound search (year and treatment specified) and I could then reproduce the behaviour he reported. The problem is that I had accidentally deleted this line of code from the code that generates the treatment clause:
if (!empty($where)) {$where .= " AND ";}
I tried treatment=blood-letting and year=1591 and found 2 records, which seems a plausible result as blood-letting alone produces 6 results, 2 of which are in 1591, and 1591 alone produces 90 results, 2 of which are blood-letting.
February 2, 2009
Busy with long backup job, and then copying the backup file over to the Linux box, as well as doing scanning job which turned out to be quite large (still not finished).
Scanned 40 images in two sizes for the Lansdowne scholar, who came by with CC. There are 80 more to go; may not finish all of them in time, but they're fascinating images.
N has created four JMatch exercises, which I've now embellished with images; from those, I'll create two Flashcard and one matching exercise each, giving us twelve exercises in total for chapter 7 of the book.
Greg found a suggestion on the Web that you could just use Windows Backup to reconstitute a machine inside a working Windows. That's definitely worth a try, so I've done a backup of my C drive (which took four hours), and I'm currently transferring it to my linux box so that I can give it a go tomorrow, using a vanilla SP3 install. Meanwhile, Greg is trying other approaches with BartPE.
Took text for new undergraduate conference page from email provided by LW. Created page, added content and modified the navigation structure for the projects section of the site and the "Of General Interest" list on the home page.
edited the job posting page on the Religious Studies site with new job posting. At first I mistakenly added this posting to the job page on the Medieval Studies page, so had to undo that and then make the correct edits on the Religious Studies site.