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I just downloaded snipsnap-0.3.2a-20030110 to try and load it on an hp-ux 11.0 system. I/m running java sdk 1.4. When I run the run.sh it tells me lib/snipsnap.jar missing, please compile application first

But I can find no instruactions on how to do that anywhere. Can I have a hint, please?

Thanks / Sid /

We test every distribution before upload and I downloaded snipsnap-0.3.2a-20030110.tgz right now which works here. Is there a snipsnap.jar in lib? Does the tgz have the right size and did decompressing work without errors?

1. How do I create a WebLog entry?
2. What are labels and how do I use them?
3. Is there a way of renaming a snip?

1. Click on the post blog link just underneath the websites tagline. There should be a row of links like this:

   [ start | index | logged in as leo | logoff | post blog ]

2. Labels are a means to attach meta data to snips, like categories, types etc. Unfortunately, the user interface to use the labels is not finished yet.
3. You cannot rename a Snip. It's part of the idea behind wiki that you cannot rename or delete snips. If you made a mistake just create a new snip and refactor the content: copy the content to the new snip and create a link to the correctly named snip in the wrong one.

1. I have no "post blog" option with version 0.3.2a:

   [ start  | index | logged in as billb | logoff  ]

2. Assume then labels are to aide in finding snips when searching?
3. Okay. This is the first Wiki and blogger I've used.

Thanks.

1. figure out how to get to my hard drive and then have the path be Hard Drive/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Home?

2. should I copy something to my User file and then do the set env command to that location?

Any help is appreciated.

1. figure out how to get to my hard drive and then have the path be Hard Drive/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.3.1/Home?

To the terminal: mstroup% setenv JAVA_HOME /Library/Java/Home

To the server: bash-2.03$ cd snipsnap-0.3.2a bash-2.03$ ./run.sh Please set JAVA_HOME environment variable! A Java SDK of at least version 1.3 is required!

HTTP ERROR: 500 An error occurred while evaluating custom action attribute "items" with value "${snip.childrenModifiedOrder}": Unable to find a value for "childrenModifiedOrder" in object of class "org.snipsnap.snip.SnipImpl" using operator "."

just installed version 0.3.4a. Everything works fine. I am now trying to use a Apache server as ReverseProxy which basically works. But there are some links, that still have the original url of the snipsnap-host and not the url set by app.url in the configuration file.

Seems like only those links in snips are making trouble; login, register, etc. are ok. Is this possibly a bug with app.configuration.url defaulting to the snipsnap-host??

I'll try 0.4 then and let you know if it's ok. Thanks.

seems like the html is not getting parsed.

• Remove the {calendar} macro from snipsnap-portlet-1
• Take a look at the server.log and send me errors or the whole file.

i can't find an e-mail address where i can e-mail the log to.

I have a suggestion for a couple of the macros. It looks like isbn, asin, and rfc do pretty much the same thing. There are many other search types people probably want to do. It would be neat if there was one macro (locate?) that took in a service type (url or isbn or asin or music or ebay or ...) and an identifier (like isbn number). The text file in conf would have to add a service identifier to each line. Additionally, it would have an insert identifier in each line (like $identifer) that would let the macro insert the identifier at that (or multiple) points in the line to create the search URL.

Nifty product even so, though.

• We think {isbn} is easier to use for users than {service:12121|isbn}
• {rfc} might include new params to point to a chapter in a RFC, {isbn} might be configured to create a order form in your intranet should the book not be available in your library. They might be the same on the basic level.

Thanks for the "nifty" :-)

Thanks.

ava] 2003-03-26 08:28:55 - error-the file 'snipsnap-0.4.1a/src/apps/default/upload.jsp' generated the following parse exception: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: This absolute uri (http://snipsnap.com/snipsnap) cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

I want to disable registering on the site, what is the best way to do it? I had thought of hacking the register.jsp file, but is there a setting I am missing?

Thanks

is it {code}?

And how can I create my own marco on top of the ones in snipsnap? Is there some kind of config file for that? Or I need to download and modify the source?

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I use ant 1.6alpha and jdk 1.4.1_02 on linux. Using the binary distribution works fine (but I'd like to potentially make changes, thus build from source)

ps: I'm also having trouble accessing the cvs code bas (error from server, see http://snipsnap.org/comments/SnipSnap+CVS+Access#comment-SnipSnap%20CVS%20Access-6 ) and I tried to subscribe to snipsnap-dev but did not get any acknowledgement (yet)

• I have a lot of different stuff my snipsnap wiki. Now I would like to do a index or search on all persons only, or an index on all concepts. How can I do this? I have tried to do something with "label".. but this doesn't appear to work or I am doing something wrong. So now I am just adding codes within the snipsnap text so I can search for the codes to come up with the results I want, it's ugly - do you have a better idea?
• Somewhat related to the above: can one remove the snipsnap snippets and the blog date snippets from displaying in the index?
• About the 0.4.2 binary release I installed yesterday. I get a little rectangle positioned on the top rightend of each snippet that I think isn't supposed to be there (snipsnap.org has it too, but it's been greyed!!) and also the orange theme has some essential parts missing. Can you bring back the google snipsnap snippet query? I miss it so much!
• About modifying the layout, in the install one can choose three basic layouts - can these be changed radically afterwards or do I have to dive into the source code later? I have seen the css files, but I don't think I for example can change the portlet-1 location currently on the right to the left.
• Embedding images into a snippet with a space in it, for example: "Jim Morrision" do not appear to work (or I cannot figure it out). I've tried image-Jim+Morrison-jim.jpg and image-Jim-Morrison-jim.jpg and both don't work. (image-Goatrance-goaparty.jpg on snippet "Goatrance" works). The pictures would be nice to have with the little biography snippets.
• How can I make an e-mail address turn into a mailto link? A http://*.org link just works!

1. The first two are related to Labels which we are working on. In the meantime there is the search field. Using "author:leo" you should be able to only search those of the author leo.
2. The little rectangle is a CSS glitch. It is the space where attached file names appear, see comment-version-0.4a-12. The google and daypop links just disappeared as there were too many of these buttons. We will put them back in on public request.
3. You can safely edit the css stylesheets. After editing them you should package the files in the css subdirectory together somewhere for backup. I suggest waiting a little bit as I just modified the layout (for blue theme) to make moving the portlet from right to left very easy.
4. Embedding images should be done by using the [attach] of a snip and then using the file name as it is uploaded {image:Jim Morrison.jpg}
5. I would not add email addresses to public pages but we can modify the URL detection to accept the mailto: protocol.

Deleting attached files right now only works by removing them in the WEB-INF/files directory. However, they will still be seen in the upload page. Deleting comes with the next release as well as the detection of missing files.

1. Can a user be deleted?
2. Can a username be changed?

1. A user can be deleted in the "User Management" of the manager administrative web frontend. The user will be deleted but his home snip will stay. Keep in mind that persistence is a major factor in a wiki (yes, we need versioning).
2. a user name cannot be changed, delete it and create a new one.

Any sugestions?

1. Login as manager
2. Click on 'User Management'
3. on your user : click on Action 'Edit'
4. change Roles:

Q:How is used 'Status:' not set ?

http://snipsnap.org/comments/snipsnap-admin http://snipsnap.org/space/Security

I just installed SnipSnap. So I have some newbie questions. First of all, what should I do to translate it to my language? Is there something like Application.properties? I read about language-packs, but can't found it. Don't say I have to patch source code! ;-)

Second. Many kinds of blog-ware allows to monitor selected threads. Is it possible to recieve comments posted on my snaps?

Third. At /WEB-INF/lib of newly created site I found muse-jabber-0.8a1.jar library. It's interesting for me, what feature of SinpSnap requires it?

That's all, thank you for attention.

P.S. Sorry for my english, it's not my native english.

• There is no language refactoring right now, but if you need it very urgently then we might start ASAP :-)
• No, currently no monitoring. We have to rework the whole notification stuff which currently only support Jabber IM when new snips are created
• see above. Jabber is used for notification
• Sorry for my english, it's not my native language too :-)

i just downloaded and installed 0.4.2a. great work! i'm trying to configure my snipsnap similar to this site's look, but some things simply don't work out.

• how can one get the sniplinks table and the "people came here from" list to be displayed on every page?
  
• how can i change a webblog entry after posting?

• the sniplinks table etc should be displayed on every page, could you send me a screenshot ( stephan@mud.de )
• Click on the small text icon to the right of the day header (beside the date). Then click on [edit].

I just started with snipsnap.

I programed a simple {math}{math} macro which outputs (static test) mathml code. To get it to run I've to change some of the *.jsp pages.

My question is, which environment do you use to "precompile" the *.jsp pages?

For example in post.jsp I have to change the <br> element to < br />

In main.jsp I have to change the DOCTYPE to be mathml "conform", ...

mailto: jsurfer - gmx.de

how the heck do i get the auto login turned on?

cheers

I have a couple of questions:

• I zapped a page, and yet it still shows up in "see also" snip listings. How can I remove it for good so that users aren't encouraged to click on an orphaned link?
• What are the rules for using ampersands and XML markup in snips? (The reason I ask is because I used an ampersand in a snip name and SS didn't replace it with a character reference when making links to the snip. I got validation errors all over the place.)

I'm looking for an open source solution for WIKI and BLOG to be integrated into OpenUSS platform (http://openuss.sourceforge.net).

How tight is actually the "user management" in SnipSnap architecture? I need to take out all the user managements and just use SnipSnap as a naked component...

Thanks, Lofi. http://openuss.sourceforge.net

Anyway, I'll download the code and look directly into the code.

Thanx, Lofi, OpenUSS.

Tx, Liz

To make this work, the macro needs to know which page is displayed, no problem, since the macro can find out which Snip the macro is in. However, when I put my menu in snipsnap-portlet-1 it can only find out that the macro is in snipsnap-portlet-1, but I really want to know which main snip (or page) is display.

Is there a way that my macro can find out which page is displayed? Maybe the URL or something?

div.snip-post-comments { display: none; }

i've also turned off backlinks, sniplinks, attachments, and a few other things this way. i might upt them back eventually, but i think i'm happy with it right now.

Tx, Liz

In the next relase multi blog also means several blogs in one space.

Yes this could be done with namespace security. People could have their own spaces with e.g. stephan/MyHouse or stephan/Sister etc. with rights management based on namespace security.

posted

Anyway, I have a bug report (or feature request). It's annoying that the zap! link doesn't confirm, and doesn't fix up all the other links to the page that got zapped. Also it should be illegal to zap! the "not found" page. It's only been a couple hours, and already I've accidentally deleted the 404 page (I double-zapped), so now whenever it can't find something, I get an infinite redirect loop in my browser!

• What do you mean with "fix up all other links"? At the bottom of the page?
• Yes the 404 page should be protected. The next version (CVS) supports auto-create pages instead of 404 btw. Could you please add a bug report for the 404 to http://bugs.snipsnap.org ?

I want to like SnipSnap… I really do. I want to use it as a knowledge management tool for my software development team. I'm new to the concept of a Wiki, though, and one problem is absolutely baffling me:

How do I create an article?

I know that if I post to my blog with a link thispagedoesnotexist, I will get the opportunity to create that page. But what if I just want to create an article and have it linked from the index?

Please help!

Thanks,

Russ

What I am doing wrong?

Sorry for that.

I am having a strange issue deploying snipsnap. It centeres around there being multiple hostnames for the machine I am setting up. When I run the run.sh script it chooses one of the names, not the one I want either, which is a non-qualified name. So when I go to use the qualified name to run the install process it works up until the point of sending me to the working site, then it fails to find the name, since it is not the fully qualified name. When I type in the fully qualified name it gets me to the application page and all seems well, until I try any of the links and they too are pointing to the non qualified name. Any ideas on how I can get this to use the fully qualified name ***.org instead of just *** which is what it is doing? Your assistance would be great, thanks, Ken.

1. Do I need my own server when I download SnipSnap? It looks good,

2. I'm extremely interested in setting up an email address that I can send blog posts to. I know that would be an extension, but I'm curious to know how difficult you would expect it to be, and how it would affect question #1.

3. I notice that Wiki links are done with square brackets. The usual Wiki concept is that any word with mixed case (like thisWord) is a wiki word that is automatically linked. I'm curious to know why you decided to use square brackets instead. Was a simple case of ease-of-programming, or was there some additional thought behind that choice?

Thanks much.

(I don't see a way to delete this one, though...)

1. right now you will either need your own server or a computer where you run snipsnap on. You don't need a dedicated "server" though.
2. SnipSnap supports Mail-to-Blog where you can setup an email address and SnipSnap fetches mail via POP3 from that account and posts it on the weblog.
3. You can setup SnipSnap to support WikiLinks. However, this requires a recompile. We decided for the bracketed linking because it is just as simple to understand and does not break the beauty of the text. Also, you can use more complex links with spaces and punctuation.

Thanks in advance.

I have the 0.4.2a version. Is possible to configure this version in this way? I suppose there is a configuration file for this but i can't find that.

Thanks in advance.

I just installed 0.5a and I have a few difficulties is mapping 0.4.2a stuff to the new version… things like:

1. How do I manage users?
2. How do I import in 0.5a snips exported from 0.4.2a? (I think that the current install instruction do not cover the snips piece)
3. How do I create a new snipsnap application?

TIA for your help and happy new year.

Cheers, F.

PS: by the way when are you planning to upgrade http://snipsnap.org site to 0.5a?

just installed snipsnap 0.5a and now I'm playing with it. I have some questions regarding themeing:

-During installation and also now, in setup, I do not have choice between themes. Even though it claims that three themes ship with snipsnap, I can only select the blue one. How do I get the others?

-I tried extracting the theme css files from the src tgz. Supposedly these files should go into applications/YourApp (which in my case I guess is _8668_?)/css. However, that directory is not present. It seems like the blue css files are snips themselves than can be edited, i.e. page.css is actually a directory on my hard disk, not a file. It's all rather confusing and I don't know how I could install theme files myself.

Some help would definitely appreciated! Thanks and keep up the great work!

-P.

the worst is: when i first install snipsnap,config it, it's well done. But,i restart server,reconnect the url ,i found all theme images are invisible. why????

i use tomcat,and jetty for webserver,both failed

take a look there and send me the changes please. Here on snipsnap.org it is snip.css

take a look there and send me the changes please. Here on snipsnap.org it is snip.css

from page.css Now the add label and add file buttons are in the right place. We have internet explorer and I noticed that there were comments about things displaying in some versions perhaps this is at the heart of the problem?

Any way to get the labels and add file button bars to go to the bottom of the the page or even better, to have the buttons as part of the normal button bar and the contents of the bars to go to the bottom of the page?

could you tell me what should we do when the snipsnap seems corrupted?

I can't access snipsnap by browser :-(

the Exception is like this:

2004-02-24 06:01:13 StandardContext[/snipsnap]Exception starting filter org.snipsnap.net.filter.InitFilter
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.snipsnap.snip.storage.FileSnipStorage.parseSnip(FileSnipStorage.java:296)
        at org.snipsnap.snip.storage.FileSnipStorage.traverseFileStore(FileSnipStorage.java:330)
        at org.snipsnap.snip.storage.FileSnipStorage.traverseFileStore(FileSnipStorage.java:339)
        at org.snipsnap.snip.storage.FileSnipStorage.storageAll(FileSnipStorage.java:323)
        at org.snipsnap.snip.storage.MemorySnipStorage.<init>(MemorySnipStorage.java:87)
        at org.snipsnap.snip.SnipSpaceImpl.<init>(SnipSpaceImpl.java:89)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274)
        at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.instantiateComponent(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:86)
        at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:36)
        at org.picocontainer.defaults.CachingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(CachingComponentAdapter.java:44)
        at org.picocontainer.extras.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:39)
        at org.nanocontainer.nanning.NanningComponentAdapterFactory$WeavingAdapter.getComponentInstance(NanningComponentAdapterFactory.java:81)
        at org.picocontainer.defaults.DefaultPicoContainer.getComponentInstance(DefaultPicoContainer.java:201)
        at org.snipsnap.container.Components.getComponent(Components.java:146)
        at org.snipsnap.net.filter.InitFilter.loadApplicationContexts(InitFilter.java:160)
...

• Why did you choose SnipSnap?
• Would you choose it again?
• Why?
• Why not?

I cannot delete any user account by browser interface. Please tell me how to delete user account by other method?

Sincerely Yours, Stingray Lien

p.s. my installed version: 0.5.2a

Here's the background of my question. We had an older version of SnipSnap that crashed before we made an XML backup. We stored the data on the file system, we did not use a database, so we have the old snips on the file system. We have tried copying the old snip files into the new SnipSnap installation's directory structure but SnipSnap does not seem to recognize the files. So that is how we come to the question above.

We have just installed SnipSnap version 1.0b1 on Solaris.

Thanks for any hints.

I'm wondering how we can integrate with SnipSnap. I would like to programmatically add content and I don't see an API for doing so. Also, I couldn't find anything on the import/export format, which I thought would be another option. Help is appreciatd.

matt cornell marmatkat@hotmail.com

I'm using 0.5.2a and I have 2 questions:

1) How do I add a link to a binary file (e.g. Word doc), either to a blog or a comment? Is there a macro for this? I tried to upload the file and create a link to it but that doesn't work.

2) Why can't I delete a registered user even though I'm the admin?

jd

1. upload the file. There is currently no {attachment} macro, but you can use the {link:space/snip/attachment.doc} to link to the attachment.
2. The user must be logged off at the moment.

1) Do I need to upload the file first by "adding" the file?

2) The users I'm trying to delete are logged off.

jd

just installed version 0.52, and i am testing around to see how usefull this could be to me.

I've a question about limitations. Is there a limit of max characters while creating/ filling in content to blog-enry or snip?

Thanks in advance, sirhenry

one question:

is it possible to secure snipsnap in that way, that only signed-on-users (authorized users) could see and read the content?

Thanks in advance, sirhenry

Two of the three listed results have the name "1". It's hard to know what they refer to.

Thanks for your help!

Can someone fix the Search function of this web site? I created a few snips and none was searchable! For example, for this snip I created Install SnipSnap with Tomcat and MySQL, it can not be located by any key word I have tried!

Thanks!

Is there a command line program which I can run to export the database? Currently I only know about doing this through a browser by going to Admin - Setup - Export Database. Just yesterday, I lost all my data created that day because SnipSnap suddently asked me to setup again after unexpected computer reboot.

If there is a program which I can run on command line, that will help a lot. I want to schedule a task on Windows to backup/export data everyday or every few days. If there is none, could it be possible that you can come up with one? I guess it probably wouldn't be difficult to write a stand-alone Java program taking admin username/password to