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Thanks both. Rod it was this item I was using, specifically the text file you made available for download. I used it to try out the Markdown tricks.
http://www.barbeephoto.com/blog/using-m … b-engines/
Its a fine way to learn with the Backlight designer on one screen modifying and saving the text strings and on another screen the auto-updating page on the target site showing in almost real time what effect each change made. I think the four spaces should do the trick for me.
I love the Backlight architecture, it does lend itself to more adventurous exploration and development. I hated waiting for Lightroom Web Module to digest changes to pages and then if I was lucky give me some clue on what would appear after I finally exported and the FTP it to the server. Often the result was not what I required and I would have to go back and try something else. Soon one would tire of this and then settle for a less than optimum result. So a very big thanks to all involved in providing this splendid development tool.
Tony P
I have been experimenting with Markdown and http and css etc. One thing I discovered I could not do when making my notes for myself was to insert a tab to produce a code block as per notes my by Rod Barbee in one of his useful articles. When I use the tab key during the writing of my page copy text the cursor jumps forward but not in the normal way. Any advice appreciated.
My Synology is running PHP 5.6 and the XAMPP system is 5.5.24. Pleased to learn about the work to improve error reporting . Its so annoying to get the 500 error with not a clue to start work on it. Beer was indeed a good plan ;-)
Tony P
Wow Ben! it worked on both of my systems. I must now go and update my directory in which I keep track of TTG updates as I have two versions of update 1.01 now. I think I am going to call it a good day and have a beer after all that.
Very many thanks.
Hi Ben
Went back to my XAMPP machine and reinstated 1.01. Cleaned out all logs and enabled full apache and php logging. Opened up the home page remotely in an Edge browser on a windows 10 machine. With the home page setup to not include an album all works fine. Then I went to Backlight login and selected Set Insert Album to ON in the designer for my home page specified an album to insert from the drop down box. When I went to the page this time the server delivered a php error.
[12-May-2016 12:11:37 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Class 'Album' not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\www\backlight\designer\application\controllers\PageController.php on line 80
I do hope this helps.
Thanks for the helpful guidance
Tony P
Thanks Ben will follow up those ideas and get back later.
Hi Ben
No I am afraid that there seems to be no trail left in any logs that give a clue. Maybe I will have to set up a sub domain on my bluehost site and work in there as I don't really want to spend days fighting with this snag. I am hoping that someone would have a theory based on the code that deals with the loading of the album to the home page. The benefit of playing about on a local web server is the speed of ftp transfers etc and the increased scope for taking risks that can be undone without dropping a used site.
Will keep fingers crossed for a clue to arrive.
Tony P
So back again. This time I reverted my Synology system to version 1.00 and tested. The behaviour here was to give error 500 after adding an album to the home page. When I go to designer and switch off the option and save the page the Error 500 goes away and the site works fine. So I have different behaviour on the two Apache based systems. The Synology will fail and give error 500 in both backlight version 1.00 and 1.01 when I add an album to the home page but the XAMPP system will work fine with backlight version 1.00 but will give an error 500 with version 1.01.
Bugger!
I need to correct one aspect of my initial posting. This morning I decided to apply the 1.01 update to my XAMPP system. I now get the error 500 on the home page here when I use the add an album to it. To be sure that the 1.01 has introduced this problem on that machine I then reverted to Backlight 1.00 and the adding an album to the home page works fine. So it looks certain that 1.01 has introduced the problem here. I will go back to my Synology system and recheck with tht to see if I can add an album to the home page with version 1.00 on that.
I have made good progress with learning and exploring Backlight. I chose to do my work on a local Webserver running on a Synology NAS. This is a DS1513 system running Synology DSM 6.0 platform and uses Apache 2.2 php 5.6.
All was working well and had made a few pages and used the designer added galleries etc with no serious problems on the way. Then I decided to add a gallery to my home page. Immediately I had an Error 500 on the home page when accessing the site.
I have tested exactly the same thing on a Windows 10 machine running XAMPP and it all works fine there. I have the same problem regardless of whether I use Backlight version 1.00 or 1.01.
I am not a stranger to problem solving and have lots of Turning gate experience with CE ranges, my main current site uses CE4 and hosted by bluehost however I am stumped on how to sort out the error 500. Could you give me any ideas on where to look and what to try on my Synology setup as although I have alternatives this NAS approach is my preferred option.
Tony P