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Ralph Bolliger Reply #1, 8 years, 11 months ago

Hello community

At the moment I'm dealing with a very strange behaviour while implementing a website into MODX:

I use some .html files as static template files. I upload them to the filesystem and tell the backend it's a static resource. After saving the template the whole frontend remains blank. When I have a look at the filesystem (using Transmit FTP Client) I see that the file I uploaded seconds before has now 0 bytes. It's completely blank. See attached screenshots.

Is there anybody who knows what the problem is?

Greetings from Switzerland

Ralph

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sottwell Reply #2, 8 years, 11 months ago

I can't get that to happen. What version of MODX are you using?

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donshakespeare Reply #3, 8 years, 11 months ago

Seems like his manager is overriding the content of the file on the server.
At a guess, there is a conflict of names, or that static plugin is giving problems.

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Ralph Bolliger Reply #4, 8 years, 11 months ago

Hi sottwell

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 11, 2015, 03:21 AM

I can't get that to happen. What version of MODX are you using?

It's modx-2.3.3-pl. New installation. Not an upgrade.

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Ralph Bolliger Reply #5, 8 years, 11 months ago

Hi donshakespeare

Quote from: donshakespeare at Jun 11, 2015, 05:34 AM

Seems like his manager is overriding the content of the file on the server.
At a guess, there is a conflict of names, or that static plugin is giving problems.

In fact the «static plugin» isn't a plugin. This came built in with MODX. The only plugin I use is getResources.

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Ralph Bolliger Reply #6, 8 years, 11 months ago

Hello community

I guess I figured out what the problem was.

(It's located between the chair and the screen... as always)

However.
After saving the template and telling it a path to the «static resource» it displayed the source code of the given file in the «Template-Code (HTML)» area beneath. I thought it's not necessary to have the code there because it's in a static file. So I cleaned out the «Template-Code (HTML)» area every time. This was the mistake.

If you change the source code in the «Template-Code (HTML)» area it will save the changes to the static template file you defined above. Very handy if you use it right.

So I guess the problem is solved now.

Greetings from Switzerland

Ralph

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sottwell Reply #7, 8 years, 11 months ago

Ah. You didn't mention that you were doing that wink

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Ralph Bolliger Reply #8, 8 years, 11 months ago

Hi sottwell

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 12, 2015, 03:17 AM

Ah. You didn't mention that you were doing that

Yes, indeed! Bricks and Mortality. :-/

Greetings

Ralph

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