Tickets :: Comment on [#657] HTML editing broken if services/editor not a subdirectory of Horde webroot

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Comment	> Ah... The concept of "webroot" is an interesting one here... > > > > What I mean is, if you want something to be inside a CMS system, it > has to have a URL of, say: > > > > http://www.mysite.com/cms/services/editor/htmlarea/htmlarea.js > > > > Where for Giapeto it would be "page.php", or whatever, for the CMS > I'm dealing with at the moment it's "pages". > > > > But for a pure .js script which doesn't need to be modified before > its sent out (?) to the page requester, it makes no sense for it to > be sent out through the CMS, rather than just through Apache, because > there is no requirement for modification, addition of left, right, > top, and bottom borders, etc. so it would make more sense to have the > URL not go through the CMS and be just, eg. > > > > http://www.mysite.com/services/editor/htmlarea/htmlarea.js > > > > For /graphics/, and /$hordeapp/graphics/ it's trivial to do this, you > just copy the directory into the non-CMS webroot, and leave it there. > For /services/editor/ it's rather more complicated, because there > isn't just one function that references it, the references to its URL > are scattered accross numerous places, hence my suggestion of the > registry entry for it. Although I'm a little confused as to why > (IIRC, I could be wrong) it appears to be sometimes called directly > and sometimes called through /services/javascript.php? > > > > However, as we've all rightly said, an Apache 'Alias' directive > adequately fixes this, but it spoils the notion of Horde & Apps just > being "drop-in" to a CMS system, which I thought was the goal. > > > > It's your call, but I think something needs to be tidied up, and my > personal preference (which I'd assumed was yours as well, hence the > bug report in the first place, rather than just apache aliasing it, > and getting on with it) is to allow easy integration with a CMS, > which may or may not support the Horde_Block/Horde_Template system > (and currently to be honest a live IMP/etc. setup doesn't > relistically fit within that system either, only the summary > information does...). > > > > I'm sure that if you wish to see the progress I've made so far on > getting Horde/IMP etc into such a CMS I can privately email you the > URL of $client's site, as long as their anonymity is retained. > > > > K.
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