Monday, March 06, 2006

It's always something - Step 1 almost complete

Any project has it's obstacles and this one has to do with configuration issues.

My host is godaddy.com , I've had them for less than a month so this is definately not an endorcement. Unfortunately their apache works a little different than the apache on my laptop and dev server. So I've been learning how to do all kinds of .htaccess magic.

All I wanted is for people to go to http://bibleicio.us/bible/Ge/1/1-12 for Genesis 1:1-12.
Not only could I not set an arbitrary file to be processed by the php engine, I also couldn't get the extra path info. Fortunately godaddy does support mod_rewrite and with a little help from Brian behlendorf I was able to get it working.

Go ahead and try it out. It is very rough and unfinished. You will note that phpScripture won the contest. I did get phpBible working on my laptop, but the xml parsing was so slow it sometimes took more than 30 seconds to execute and the scripts timed out. We definately can't have that on a high volume website so I opted for the simpler of the two.

The space on the right is where all the comments should go. If there are any CSS guru's out there let me know I am going to create classes for everything but I would love a cool layout.

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