I'm about to start a renaming project on a major data driven website USING VISUAL STUDIO and WINDOWS XP. I've got a script to change the company name in the data/tempates thousands of times. Does anyone have any ideas how I can verify that all of the names have been changed? Is there a way to pull the generated files down to my disk so I can grep it out?
Do you use any specific web server or publishing system? But perhaps one huge, recursive wget is enough?
what you need is a website crawler that can save retrieved pages to disk. There are many programs of this kind available on the Internet.
Visual Studio offers a Find In File (ctrl+shift+f). Search for what you need and it will list all the location of what it was able to find.
Review and replace.
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I recently made my own personal MediaWiki and I would like it to be available on different computers. I set it up with XAMPP, so currently, what I did was make two repositories:
one for xampp\htdocs\(my-wiki)
one for xampp\mysql\data\(my-sql-folder)
Then I cloned those repositories to the same folders on another computer. However, when I go to localhost(my-wiki) on that computer, I get the error "Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. (Cannot access the database)."
Whenever I make changes to the Wiki, xampp\htdocs(my-wiki) does not change at all, while xampp\mysql\data(my-sql-folder) frequently shows edits. What am I doing wrong?
Edit: After looking at the internal error data, it appears that none of the tables in the wiki exist anymore (Table xxx doesn't exist in engine). I'm unsure of why this would be!
There are two things that change when you use a wiki: the uploads directory and the database, so for some some sort of decentralized wiki you need to replicate those. Uploads are simple (you could use git, or some shared central storage like NFS, or some decentralized file store - Wikipedia for example uses Swift). As for the database, there are a few experimental tools to use git as a storage engine (e.g. git-mediawiki), but nothing I would rely on. If your computers run all the time, you can use database replication, but that's not a beginner-level setup. In practice you'll probably be best off just using database dumps. Or buy a server on the internet (a decent VPS is pretty cheap these days) and use that as the wiki's DB backend so you can reach it from all your machines. (Or I guess you can just put your whole wiki on the internet at that point.)
Figured it out. I was missing the files ib_logfile0, ib_logfile1, and ibdata1 from the xampp/mysql/data folder. This, however, makes my Git setup even more annoying. If anybody has any suggestions for a better way to setup my Wiki and make it available across different computers, it'd be much appreciated! Thanks
I'm helping out with an 3Dcart eCommerce/online store doing basic web administration tasks analyzing their data. Their POS system is manged manually with Excel at the moment, and so updating information has become pretty time consuming. I want to know if it's possible (and if so how) to connect/integrate 3Dcart's database system and be able to use Microsoft Access for the programming in order to be able to merge tables/databases more seamlessly and work more efficiently.
Is this possible? Are their any online resources that show how to integrate Microsoft Access as a POS system (with 3Dcart specifically if possible) or could anyone describe how to do so?
3dcart allows you to import your products using the Import/Export feature from a CSV file. But it seems like there is no way to make it work with Access automatically. Also I've found this service http://www.file2cart.com/shopping-cart-data-import-options/6265-import-excel-to-3dcart
Maybe it will be helpful for you. And finally you can contact these guys Smart POS and ask them for help.
I don't if this is the right forum but I need a free application or plugin or module that I can use to pull data from mysql database and present to users on the front end. They reports should be queried by date and/or any other parameter. It should also be exported to at least CSV and maybe PDF.
Any guide will be appreciated. Thanks
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This is my first time building a website and using CodeIgniter for a school project. I was wondering whether you have any tips on uploading CI to a free web host , my database, free webhosting and basic security tips.
Can I just upload the entire CI folder? Or do I have to upload individual files (God no!)? What are my options?
What about my MySQL database - do I just upload my mysqldump to the webhost?
Also, can you recommend a good free webhost. I was thinking about 000webhost.
Any basic tips on security would also be appreciated (I've implemented many of the form_validation rules like xss_clean for starters)
Any other suggestions will be more than welcome. Thanks!
I used 000webhost.com long time ago and remembered having minor inconvenient here and there (i.e.: slow connection, server unreachable sometime). I don't have any suggestion on a good free webhost because in most situation the words "good" and "free webhost" do not belong in the same sentence. You get what you paid for.
Now, onto the uploading itself.
You need to upload the entire CI folder and your app as well
You can either zip them all and extract the zip if you have shell access to the server
You can use FTP to upload all files at once
MySQL DB: if you have SQL scripts, you can execute them in phpMyAdmin interface if the web host provider gives you access to it. Please read phpMyAdmin documentation for ways to upload your MySQL data.
In terms of security:
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/installation/index.html
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/security.html
Sanitize user input if you're using SQL expression directly
If you are using CI ORM/database library, make sure you keep yourself up to date to any security issues by checking CI mailing-list, IRC, or whichever the preferred communication channel the CI people use.
For simplicity, avoid HTML tags (as a user) input, treat them as literal
Instead of uploading individual files make the entire directory into a zip folder (or any compressed folder) to save bandwidth and time.
Also most webhosts will have an uploader, but im not sure about free hosts supporting database services, you would have to look into that.
I'm building an install using VS 2003. The install has an Excel workbook and two Access databases. I need to force the Access files to load regardless of the create/mod date of the existing databases on the user's computer. I currently use ORCA to force in a Version number on the two files, but would like to find a simpler, more elegant solution (hand editing a .msi file is not something I see as "best practice".
Is there a way to add a version number to the databases using Access that would then be used in the install?
Is there a better way for me to do this?
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I don't think MsiFileHash table will help here. See this excellent post by Aaron Stebner. Most likely last modified date of Access database on client computer will be different from its creation date. Windows Installer will correctly assume that the file has changed since installation and will not replace it.
The right way to solve this (as question author pointed out) is to set Version field in File table.
Unfortunately setup projects in Visual Studio are very limited. You can create simple VBS script that would modify records in File table (using SQL) but I suggest looking at alternative setup authoring tools instead, such as WiX, InstallShield or Wise. WiX in my opinion is the best.
Since it sounds like you don't have properly versioned resources, have you tried changing the REINSTALLMODE property?
IIRC, in the default value of 'omus', it's the 'o' flag that's only allowing you to install if you have an older version. You may try changing this from 'o' to 'e'. Be warned that this will overwrite missing, older AND equally versioned files.
Manually adding in versions was the wrong way to start, but this should ensure that you don't have to manually bump up the version numbers to get them to install.
Look into Build Events for your project. It may be possible to rev the versions of the files during a build event. [Just don't quote me on that]. I am not sure if you can or not, but that would be the place I would start investigating first.
You should populate the MsiFileHash table for these files. Look at WiFilVer.vbs thtat is part of the Microsoft Platform SDK to see how to do this.
My other suggestion would be to look at WiX instead of Visual Studio 2003 for doing installs. Visual Studio 2003 has very limited MSI support and you can end up spending a lot of time fighting it, rather than getting useful work don.