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Usage of Struts and OpenCms together...

To use struts in unison with opencms is very simple. Everything is the same EXCEPT! * Your jsps are in opencms * In your struts-config.xml, when your doing a forward include the opencms servlet and the full path to the file within the VFS. So all your forwards to jsp's would begin with /opencms/directories-in-vfs/the-file-in-vfs.jsp. Remember that opencms is "JUST" a servlet. ...

Static Export Tutorial

Hi, OC-World! the following 'tutorial' was the result of a support incident. it is given as it is, no questions about it should be done directly to us. Usage of the 'AfterPublish' handler. (Version 6.0.2 or greater) all what we need is in the opencms/staticexport node of the opencms-importexport.xml configuration file. first leave everything with the standard values: ...

Separate database with OpenCms

Hi I have posted the following message in the opencms mailing list a few weeks ago, asking for comments and suggestions about this way to access a separate database through a separate connection pool. Because I haven't got any answer, I try now here again :D ============================================== Thanks to the people that suggested me several solutions about how to access a ...

Creating your own widget - select files in folder widget

[size=24:0d84fbd146][b:0d84fbd146]CmsSelectXmlContentWidget - XML widget for reading a specifid folder and listing the files[/b:0d84fbd146][/size:0d84fbd146] This is a little "how-to" for creating an own widget for the XML-Contents in OpenCms (6.0.0) Create a new package and class for your widget (I simply made mine with the base of the org.opencms.widgets.CmsSelectWidget dropdown widget ...

Alternative way to remove /opencms/opencms w.o. installing as ROOT (a rewritten version)

Works with Tomcat 5.0 and 5.5. No workplace files modified. Other URL examples. Rudolf Blazek This is a rewrite of my approach to removing the dreaded "/opencms/opencms" from the URL. It's a hybrid two-stage solution:[list=1][*]Remove the first 'opencms' by deploying opencms as the root web app, no matter where it's installed (this first step is new) [*]Remove the second 'opencms' ...

RSS 2.0 feed using content templates

Hey guys- I was pleasantly surprised to find out how easy it was to add rss support to openCMS- it took me all of an hour, and that included reading the RSS spec. I've only tested the feed I'm generating under the Sage extension for Firefox; it's completely possible that other feeds won't do so well. You may need to wrap some of the description content in CDATA tages, etc. We use a ...

Remove /opencms/opencms w.o. installing as ROOT w. multisite

I've updated my Tutorial to work with beta 2 and beta 3. The Old version is located in the post below. Sorry for the long delay but till now i haven't found the time wo work on this tutorial because of other tasks that needed to be finished. But now i got a first draft ready wich includes an (in my environment) working configuration although the descriptions are not as good as i like them to ...

Tutorial for structured content

[url]http://www.wdogsystems.com/opencms/opencms/demos/structured_content_editing.html[/url]

JCaptcha integration

Hi everyone I integrated successifull JCaptcha with opencms 6.2. This is a short tutorial: 1) Download jcaptcha-bin-1.0-RC6.zip from http://forge.octo.com/jcaptcha/confluence/display/general/Home; unzip it and copy jcaptcha-all-1.0-RC6.jar in your $OPENCMS/WEB-INF/lib folder (remove any different version of this jar) 2) Create a jcaptcha manager. It must be a singleton: [code]public ...

How to create XML content definitions

There's a post from Alex on the mailing-list that should be placed here also. It's from Oct 30, 2004 - a reply to a message from Marc Davenport - the title was "XML Content Demo". ciao, Manfred

How to migrate Opencms DB to another server

Hi, I've a virtual server that runs OpenCMS 6 with tomcat and mysql. I want to migrate only the database on a new machine. After the export/import of the database i've changed the connection jdbc string on opencms-system.properties files to match the new server. Restarting the tomcat my sites are no more availables. Do I missing somethings? Thanks in advanced Federico

Form based Authentication

The settings are now in opencms-system.xml [code:1:2049da7b22]

true

/system/login/myloginpage.html

[/code:1:2049da7b22] Then there is also a new feature: You can set the property "login-form" on resources (define the property first of it's not there ...

Add OSWorkflow Module to Opencms

The attachment is osworkflow-opencms source package. It's in LGPL license. It's very different from the former one. Installation Guide: 1. Import the osworkflow module into OpenCMS. 2. Add datasource jdbc/OsWorkflowDS in context element in context.xml, for example: [code:1:8ee3e6d024]

List all sub folders & Files in Folder

<%@ page import="org.opencms.file.CmsObject"%> <%@ page import="org.opencms.jsp.CmsJspActionElement"%> <%@ page import="org.opencms.main.CmsException"%> <%@ page import="org.opencms.file.CmsFolder"%> <%@ page import="org.opencms.file.CmsFile"%> <%@ page import="org.opencms.frontend.templateone.CmsTemplateBean"%> <%@ taglib prefix="cms" ...

More proper way to remove /opencms/opencms w.o. installing as ROOT

Dear list, I am new to OpenCms and would like to share with you my approach to removing the dreaded "/opencms/opencms" from the URL. I think my way is more proper than the one in the opencms docs or its modifications on the net because it does not require hacking of any opencms internal files. It works well, at least for me. Software: Tomcat 5.0, OpenCms 6.2.2 For simplicity ...