Rendering out to more than one server
Filewriters should be able to see the adrPageTable
Most webmasters who run commercial, public sites use a staging server for previewing content, and a live server which is open to the public.
Currently, Frontier's HTML rendering model presupposes that there will only be one server. However, this is often not the case.
multiFTP: how it works
Fortunately, it was not too difficult to make things work. I wrote a new filewriter--no, actually, I stole Alan German's excellent user.html.filewriters.ftp table, and modified that to suit my needs.
Here is the readme from multiFtp:
Hi this is Phil Suh.
multiFTP is a modification of Alan German's awesome user.html.filewriters.ftp.
thanks to Alan for making this possible.
multiFTP allows you to ftp to various servers based on a #renderLocation preference.
This is useful for rendering to staging/live servers.
[Caveats] It requires a modification to html.callfilewriterstartup (). We need to pass the address of the page table inside of adrStorage, so that multiFTP can see it.
[How it Works] Changes in multiFtp.startup & multiFtp.shutdown:
startup: copies the pagetable address into the storage table: adrStorage^.adrPageTAble = adrPageTable. If available, copies the adrPageTable^.renderLocation into the adrStorageTable.
shutdown: It checks for adrStorage^.adrpagetable and adrpagetable^.renderLocation, and based on that info, initializes all the FTP account info. Otherwise, it's the same as Alan's script.
Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 11:40:03 AM by Phil Suh
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