On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:58:05 -0400
Pierre Métras <p.metras videotron.ca> wrote:
> I'm converting one of my sites to support the
multilingual features
> of MeshCMS. The problem with MeshCMS is that there is
so much magic.
> I follow the procedure in the documentation
> (http://www.cromoteca.com/meshcms/userguide/ind
ex.html#multilingual)
> and it works, I don't know how and why! Now I have a
site supporting
> French and English, and it even helps me creating the
missing
> pages... This application rocks!
There's no magic IMHO, everything works by looking at the
beginning of
the path (eg. /en/... or /fr/...). It's not really
"multilingual", but
it can be enough for many sites. I plan to convert my site
to en+it
asap, so I will test multilanguage deeply ;)
There's also an option in the configuration to try to match
moved pages
instead of sending 404 errors. For example it will be able
to redirect
www.cromoteca.com/meshcms to www.cromoteca.com/en/meshcms
automatically, which is very search engine friendly.
> I've got only one thing that does not work as expected
and I can
> figure out the MeshCMS way to do it (that's the problem
with magic,
> the assistance does not find the trick of the
magician). Should I use
> absolute or relative URLs to access common resources
(pictures used
> in English and in French stored in the /images
directory)?
>
> During the files moves to get the multilingual
directory
> architecture, I've lost the images in some pages. I
replaced them
> with absolute paths. But if I use TinyMCE, it puts
relative paths
> when I insert images. Both methods work, but what is
the best for
> MeshCMS? It seems to be relative because when I open a
page with
> absolute URLs, they are translated to relative when I
save the page...
I will face the same issue when I will move my existing
pages into /en.
I suggest to keep using relative paths. I could move the
/images dir
to /en/images, thus keeping links working, and then use
those images
when creating pages in Italian. Or, I could live with it and
fix the
code in the single pages. A tool like Xenu
(http://home
.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html) is very handy in such
cases, being able to find all broken links.
> Luciano, I've tested your server picture resizing and
it works great.
> Now my pages overloaded with images will display
faster.
> Also, I've upgraded to JDK6 and MeshCMS 3.1 from svn
and still have
> the same problem with my red thumbnails. This must be a
problem with
> the Java binding on Debian graphic libraries. I can
live with it...
I tried to connect to http://dance.alterna.tv
again and it looks
perfect! It seems that the color issue has been solved
instead. Maybe
you have some old thumbnails saved on disk: you could
empty /meshcms/generated.
Luciano
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