Dreamhack : question about structure of directory

[namanhams]

Hi ,

According to here wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Main_development_folder  :  "anything that appears at http://www.dreamwidth.org/filename.bml will be here, as htdocs/filename.bml" 

But the link to the "Reading page" is :  "YourUserName.dreamwidth.org/read", which i can not find any "read" folder or "read.pl" file in the dw folder.

There are some similar links that i can not find the source file :

"YourUserName.dreamwidth.org/calendar" -> link to "Archive"
"YourUserName.dreamwidth.org/"   -> link to "Recent entries"
......


Please help to clarify for me. Thanks a lot.

 

Comments

[cesy]

There are a few exceptions to this, and the main ones are the reading page-related things, which are old and complex and haven't been updated very much. Have a look at talkread, though beware, it's kinda complex.

[yvi]

The exception are styled pages in the userspace - accessed by username.dreamwidth.org/ with /read /calendar and entry pages being the big ones.

You will find the info on what is being displayed in those in cgi-bin/LJ/S2/ , and hoe they are displayed in bin/upgrading/s2layers/core2.s2 . There is also cgi-bin/LJ/s2.pm , which you might want to look at.

It's Complicated :)

[foxfirefey]

Also, some pages are moving away from BML to Template Toolkit, and those pages will not be in htdocs:

http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Template_Toolkit

[alierak]

If you really want to get to the bottom of how URLs are mapped to bits of code that handle them, cgi-bin/Apache/LiveJournal.pm is the place to start. "sub trans" is the registered handler for all requests.

[namanhams]

Hi,

Thanks so much for all your information :)