I have Orchard CMS and I want to integrate my MVC site with it. Can anybody tell me how to do this?
It depends on how complex your MVC app is, but in most cases it is straighforward. The easiest way is to wrap your existing site into Orchard module. Writing a module is described here. These are the necessary steps:
Copy your site to a subdirectory under ~/Orchard.Web/Modules along with the .csproj file so that the .csproj file should be in your application root (eg. ~/Orchard.Web/Modules/MyApplication/MyApplication.csproj)
In the root of your app create a Module.txt manifest file. This small file describes your application - its syntax is described here
Set appropriate routes so that existing controllers' actions can be hit. It's also described in the article above. By default, your application URLs will look like /MyApplication/Controller/Action - you're free to change it as you wish. Be careful though not to interfere with existing routes, eg. /Admin, /Users and so on. The routes you specify have higher priority and will override every exisiting ones. Btw - Area name, where necessary, would be the name of your application (eg. MyApplication).
Run Orchard and enable your application in Modules/Features admin menu.
Add necessary changes to web.config file.
Remember though that Orchard is based on ASP.NET MVC 4 and uses Razor view engine. If you use some other view engine, you have to specify it appropriately in the web.config file.
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I have big dilemma and I need help.
Basically we have sitecore web app this is our main web service. Currently my app is working with the main app via .html static pages(it works as SPA, JS calls backend with needed html content).
But database I work with grows bigger, and to access certain elements with URL I need to create ~70.000+ static files. As well this static files are needed for google indexing, so we can advertise our products. In case if there is new meta data needed or new item added, I need to run my other program that creates this static files to update everything out of txt file with all items. And we have 2 reserve servers where our sitecore web is. So it like 70k+ files for 9 languages and 3 web servers. It takes a day to recreate everything...
That why I decided to make clear MVC SPA application, and it works great. But...
I can't add my MVC application or anything except .html files to the current sitecore main app.
And the question is: how it could be done without losing google indexing and without changing main domain.
For example we have now:
www.ourdomain.com/foldername/mystaticfile.html
What I want:
www.ourdomain.com/mynewmvcapplication
Sitecore has a settings called IgnoreUrlPrefixes. You can add mynewmvcapplication to this setting, in that case Sitecore will ignore that path as well as anything under it. Here is a good article which shows you how to update this setting without making an update to Sitecore's config files.
Take a look at Sitecore Redirect Manager Sitecore market place. This it has the capabilities to create your custom url and keeps your search engine rating.
https://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Sitecore_Redirect_Manager.aspx
Otherwise you can check Custom Link Provider and Custome Item Resolver. This will need more coding than the previous one. A google search with those keywords brings back many results.
Best wishes.
According to requirement of application, I have developed a custom web part in Kentico 9. This web part is using with same functionality at various places but we have to use with different layout structure.
As per my understanding, we can create custom layouts for a single web part from "Layout Tab" in web part configuration. As I used same things with various Kentio built in web part like Logon form, Logon-Mini form, etc.
But while trying to create new layout for my custom web part, I am getting web part loading error and when I checked into event log it is showing following error:
The file
'/CMSVirtualFiles/WebPartLayouts/=vg=87a868ce-926c-4cb3-a441-b4f1d4310afc/TDNForgottenPassword/ForgottenPassword.ascx.cs'
does not exist.
Here, internally system looking for ".CS" file under "CMSVirtualFiles" folder, which has actually under the "CMSWebParts" directory in which I have created my user control.
Is there any specific configuration required in custom web part to implement multiple layout of it? Please help me and guide me, what am I missing or doing wrong?
Check your webpart code file property in the ascx file. You need to specifically declare the full relative path to the .cs file and not just the filename. For example:
Correct
CodeFile="~/CMSWebParts/Community/GroupRegistration.ascx.cs"
Incorrect
CodeFile="GroupRegistration.ascx.cs"
Please make sure you don't have the store virtual files in the file system setting enabled.
I have been using Liferay for work for 2 weeks. I noticed that it's a bit difficult to find good documentation and tutorials.
Until now I created pages from the web portal. After I create them, I drag and drop portlets. I don't really like this approach, I would prefer to use a coding approach. Is there a way to create a website or page programmatically by defining a project as I do to create portlets?
Moreover, I am using Liferay with WebLogic 10.3.6. I want to know where liferay puts pages I created via web-portal on the file system. I suppose that a file, or something similar, is created when I declare a new site on the Liferay web-portal.
Thank you all,
Marco
Yes Liferay has it's Database, all data of any Liferay object is stored in the database and / or on the file system depending on your configuration.
However, one of the functionality of Liferay is to let you create pages / sites through the UI. As documented in the Java Portal Specification and Liferay Server Documents your approach to create pages in an alternative way is possible but it is part of Liferay's Portal Services. You can use Liferay's Service (HTTP REST) API to call the related service. To access those APIs you need to configure your Liferay Server.
In case you want to do programmatically you still need to configure, enable and call those external HTTP services from your code. You should not create Liferay Objects from your own code hosted as an extension inside your Liferay Instance as that will result inconsistency in your Liferay Database / filesystem. (As in case of page creation Liferay creates a set of other related objects in it's database / filesystem.)
In your liferay bundle you will find two plugins of interest.
First is resources-importer-web for which description says
The Resources Importer app allows front-end developers to package web
content, portlet configurations, and layouts together in a theme
without saving it as a compiled .LAR file thereby allowing for greater
flexibility in its usage between Liferay Portal versions.This app will automatically create associated content when other
plugins are deployed that are configured to make use of the Resource
Importer app.This app installs as a Liferay service.
Second is welcome-theme which declares resources to be created by resources-importer-web. This on should be example how to create your own. Take a look at
welcome-theme\WEB-INF\src\resources-importer\*
welcome-theme\WEB-INF\liferay-plugin-package.properties
This feature is described at importing-resources-with-themes
As mentioned by gabor_the_kid, Liferay stores all objects in its tables. For example, User related objects would be in user table. Liferay exposed services or API's to change the default/to add new behaviors by program but not easier than achieving it through UI. Also maintenance should be considered for going program way of creating pages or layouts etc.
You can describe your changes using xml and use the Liferay Portal DB Setup core to create the changes in DB.
The library defines the list of available xml configurations.
I have an existing MVC 3 web application and i'm running it as a module inside Orchard CMS. My main web.config for the web app has a whole load of appSettings, connectionStrings, system.serviceModel and various other sections.
It looks to me as though the majority (if not all) of these settings are being ignored.
One solution would obviously be to update the Orchard.Web web.config with my settings, but i would prefer not to customise this web.config as far as possible to allow easy upgrade in future.
Are there any other recommended methods / best practices for using my own web.config within my Orchard module MVC app?
Cheers.
I found an answer here: http://blog.wouldbetheologian.com/2012/09/loading-module-specific-connection.html
// Read the connection string from the *local* web.config (not the root).
var fileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap();
fileMap.ExeConfigFilename = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Modules/Alanta.Web.Corp/web.config");
var configuration = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(fileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
_connectionString = configuration.ConnectionStrings.ConnectionStrings["AlantaEntities"].ConnectionString;
Yes, the problem with web.config is that it is not tenant-aware. The recommended way of treating settings in Orchard is to add parts to the Site content type. There are quite a few examples of that throughout the code.
This should give you some more info: http://docs.orchardproject.net/Documentation/Adding-custom-settings
I know this is not specifically a programming question, but programmers will often have to do this work.
How do I create a website with Liferay portal - the docs are pretty light on this fundamental issue and are all for version 4.4. I am using version 5.2 and the docs don't seem to be relevant.
Do you know what the basic steps are. So far I have logged in as the bruno user and can see the 7cogs website and edit it. But I now need to create my own website (for my company) and be able to develop portlets to add to the parts of the page.
Further I notice that the docs talk about doing work in Eclipse. If our website is all static HTML, (the reason we want liferay is mainly so that we can edit content items using its content management tools), then will there be any need for Java dev, or will it all be drag n drop and clicking to get setup. Any guidance will be much appreciated.
Liferay can be used as a simple CMS, without much Java knowledge : creating, editing and positioning of web content fragments are drag'n'drop and use of the included rich text editor.
But to start using Liferay for your company, there are two main steps : a technical configuration (database, etc.), and a look'n'feel customization.
The technical part
First of all, you should get rid of the 7cogs website : this is called a hook in the Liferay wording. To do that, if you are using Tomcat for the application server, just delete the 7cogs directory as stated here.
You can now create the configuration file for your installation : it's a simple text properties file, named portal-ext.properties and placed in the webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes folder of your tomcat installation.
This file handles most of the configuration of the Liferay portal, for example :
the name of your company
if you want to display a terms of use page on first login
if you want anybody to be able to create an account on your portal
the database where the data will be stored
To do this, the properties in the portal-ext.properties override default properties found in a embedded portal.properties file located in the jar file portal-impl.jar, in the webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib directory. Just unzip the jar file in a temporary folder to access the portal.properties file.
A sample portal-ext.properties file :
company.default.web.id=yourcompany.com
terms.of.use.required=false
company.security.strangers=false
jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false
jdbc.default.username=root
jdbc.default.password=root
Once done, you can startup your application server. As the default admin (named test, something you can change in the portal-ext.properties file), you can access to the centralized web "control center", located in the "dock" (the strange menu labelled "welcome Test" in the upper right part of any page once logged in).
I would advise you to read the administration guide, useful for most administrative tasks.
The "branding" part
Liferay uses "Themes" to automatically decorate the portal pages (logo, navigation, portlet borders...) using images, CSS, Javascript (JQuery) and the templating language Velocity. The themes are bundled in a .war file, like a standard web application, and deployed on the fly either via the control center or by dropping the file in the deploy directory of the server.
Liferay can use several themes at the same time, one for each community (a group of pages, users and content) for example.
Creating your own theme can be done afterwards, using the "Plugins SDK".
The Wiki, forums and blogs can be very useful.