Lifeline for Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Reviewing UserLand website files
  With the shutting-down of UserLand Software, one of the many loose-ends to pick up is distributing all the websites on userland.com and associated servers.
  I finally got a copy of all these files and am going through them one by one, checking them out, looking for any information that we shouldn't release (for example passwords).
  There are several different kinds of files that are installed in different ways.
  To install a Tool, put the file in the Tools sub-folder of the Apps sub-folder of the Guest Databases folder. Open the file in the OPML Editor (or any Frontier distro), bring it to the front, and choose Re-Install Front Tool from the Tools menu. If the name of the website is (for example) jello.root, you can access the website at this URL: http://127.0.0.1:5337/jello/.
  To install a websiteFramework site, put the file in the www sub-folder of the Guest Databases folder and open the file in the OPML Editor. Create an entry in user.webserver.responders.websiteframework.data.doctree. If the file is names pudding.root you might want to call the entry pudding, but you can call it anything you like. Its value must be of type address, and must point to the top level of the website. Then you can access the file at: http://127.0.0.1:5337/pudding/.
  To install a Manila site, choose Install Site command from the Server menu in Frontier. Not sure how you access the site through the web.
  1. badgeServer.root -- A Frontier tool, it's the code running behind badges.userland.com, which is still running.
  2. bookmarks.root -- A Manilal site, it's the code running behind bookmarks.userland.com, which was a start of something that wasn't finished. As the tagline says "Maybe someday."