My CMS Wish List
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Last Post: February 28, 2008 (RSS)
By Glasairmell - February 28, 2008 - edited: February 28, 2008
Hi Dave, I wanted to get back to the wish of creating physical directories and pages with CMSB.
I thought of a compromise so that you would not have to go back to the way Article Manager creates pages and directories. Why not have CMS build make the directory and a page that has an include statement that calls the viewer. That way you have physical directories and pages for SEM and the viewer can function as intended.
Another reason is that it seems more secure to have physical urls then using mod_rewrite.
Maybe it is not as easy as it sounds to do this however It is something to think about.
Thanks Mell
I thought of a compromise so that you would not have to go back to the way Article Manager creates pages and directories. Why not have CMS build make the directory and a page that has an include statement that calls the viewer. That way you have physical directories and pages for SEM and the viewer can function as intended.
Another reason is that it seems more secure to have physical urls then using mod_rewrite.
Maybe it is not as easy as it sounds to do this however It is something to think about.
Thanks Mell
Re: [Glasairmell] My CMS Wish List
By Dave - February 28, 2008
It's certainly possible. There's all kinds of fancy hacks you could do like have 404's direct to your script which then creates pages on demand if they don't already exist, etc. And many many other methods.
For the most part though you can make it so there's no way a web visitor could tell which method you were using.
I don't know that it's more or less secure. In one sense the filesystem is just another kind of database. And whether your web server gets the content from your filesystem "database" or your MySQL "database" it's still just mapping an url to an arbitrary data source.
One thing that I imagine we'll have to deal with sooner or later is adding some sort of caching mechanism for really high volume sites to reduce load on the MySQL server. We have some ideas for this but haven't had a need (or request) yet even though we're using CMS Builder to power some sections of our own site (which gets a lot of traffic).
For the most part though you can make it so there's no way a web visitor could tell which method you were using.
I don't know that it's more or less secure. In one sense the filesystem is just another kind of database. And whether your web server gets the content from your filesystem "database" or your MySQL "database" it's still just mapping an url to an arbitrary data source.
One thing that I imagine we'll have to deal with sooner or later is adding some sort of caching mechanism for really high volume sites to reduce load on the MySQL server. We have some ideas for this but haven't had a need (or request) yet even though we're using CMS Builder to power some sections of our own site (which gets a lot of traffic).
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