Symphony 0.9 revision 2 has arrived
It’s time to figure out how this thing works. According to Allen at Twentyone Degrees, their crew is going to be migrating their sites to Symphony.
Rev 2 will also be the version in which we start migrating all our in-house websites. From here on, we’ll be Symphony owners as much as we are developers…
We urge all participants to test and break this update. Anyone who has problems getting the system to work,
we ask you to help us by booking an Instant Chat session with us to troubleshoot the problem.
We have found that not many people have been exploiting the availalility of the developers. Please do bug, annoy and/or shout at us any time of the day as we desperately need your feedback. If we are not online and would like us to be, please send us an email to: team (at) symphony21 (dot) com to book a time and we will endeavour to get online to troubleshoot your problems.
This time we are serious. What you see is now nearing our vision. Please help us make sure Symphony is as robust as it can be before we release it to other symphony owners.
So, it sounds like now is as good a time as any to jump in with both feet. To join in the fun, be prepared to lay down $60 Australian dollars and visit the Symphony site.
Where to test?
I could test this on my local Apache Web Server, but since I have some room on TextDrive as a VCII member, I have an extra domain lying around that I can try out.
So I fire up Transmit 3 and upload the files to the server, set up the config.php file, launch SSH Tunnel Manager to open a tunnel to TextDrive, open MySQL Administrator to empty the old data from the database ready to repopulate the data. Although, it might be easier to use phpMyAdmin to import the sql file. I pointed my browser to the newly installed copy of Symphony, and with a deep breath, I press return, only to find that the config.php file has been printed for everyone to see (if anybody new this domain existed and the directory I had just created). No good. Quickly lock down the config.php file (chmod 000) and set the .htaccess file to redirect. I’ll test locally, thank you very much.
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posted Monday July 18, 2005