Hi,

I am nearly certain I have discovered a bug in the Static Publisher which disables you from exporting any site to HTML files which contains one or more instances of a Redirect Page containing an external URL. This appears to occur in \sapphire\filesystem\Filesystem.php where the method MakeFolder() attempts to name the file using the external URL(s) from the Redirect Pages. This can easily be reproduced in any version 2.3 and later by creating a Redirect Page on your site which has an external URL associated with it and then making a request in the browser to http://www.mysite.com/dev/buildcache?flush=1.

I think everyone will agree that when exporting a site to cache, links that redirect to external URL's need not have pages created for them.

Can anyone offer some help on how I can fix this locally? Add some code to prevent pages of this ClassName from being exported?

Any help offered would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Garrett

Yeah. I ended up doing exactly that:

function allPagesToCache() {

$urls = array();

$pages = DataObject::get("SiteTree");

foreach($pages as $page) {
      if($page->ClassName!="RedirectorPage") {
       $urls = array_merge($urls, (array)$page->subPagesToCache());
      }
}

}

And that pretty much takes care of it. Thanks for replying. Hey listen-- since you're familiar with StaticPublisher, and I'm new, let me ask you a question-- how do you DEPLOY this static version? I looked at the documentation but it's a little unclear. It refers to an .htaccess file here, but this file is confusing because I think it's a collection of examples instead of the ACTUAL file I should use. I haven't been able yet to configure it such that when I request the normal URL for the site I get the static version. Could you walk me through that?

Thanks,
Garrett

Hi-- thanks again for your continued help. However, I am not noticing ANYTHING different in how the site behaves once I applied these changes. I'm pretty sure it's still running dynamic. My original RewriteBase was /looksmart. Here is my new .htaccess file:

The /looksmart/cache folder exists, and all the *.html files are in there. What am I doing wrong?

Hi and thanks for your reply-- I think you may have misunderstood, however. There is nothing wrong with the HTML files themselves, it's just that when I go to the URL I normally would to look at this site, I am still seeing the dynamic version despite my drastic changes to the .htaccess file. I think I followed the StaticPublisher instructions correctly but alas it has had no effect. Ideas?

//Garrett