[Owncloud] appswebroot path issue

[Florian Hülsmann]

ownCloud is caching CSS and JS files internally as well, to disable that 
append this to your config.php:

define('DEBUG', true);

Florian

Am 03.08.2012 19:09, schrieb Alessandro Cosentino:
> sorry for all this noise. the cache of the two browser was shared
> (seriously, wth!).
> I managed to actually clear it and now the following path works:
>
> url('%appswebroot%/news/img/rss.svg')
>
> Sorry again,
> Alessandro
>
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ok, something is not right here.
>> I tried to change the path to what Florian suggested and I still get
>> the SAME error!
>> Is the css file hardly cached somewhere in owncloud?
>>
>> I tried many things:
>> - clear browser cache;
>> - css reloader (firefox addon);
>> - comment the addStyle line and uncomment it again;
>> - even ANOTHER browser!!!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alessandro
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Florian Hülsmann <fh at cbix.de> wrote:
>>> AFAIK the app itself doesn't know its absolute directory and the directory
>>> of other apps, so the placeholders don't make that much sense to me. Assume
>>> an app called "myApp" that is in /var/www/owncloud/apps and another called
>>> "otherApp" that is in /var/www/oc-apps. This is possible through the movable
>>> apps feature. A CSS file from myApp would contain: ...
>>> url('%appswebroot%/myApp/img/foo.png') ...
>>> url('%appswebroot%/otherApp/img/bar.png') ...
>>>
>>> which would break everything in case we're only replacing the placeholders
>>> with the app directory >:-(
>>>
>>> I'd strongly recommend this in CSS:
>>>
>>> url('index.php?app=myApp&getfile=img/foo.png')
>>> url('index.php?app=otherApp&getfile=img/bar.png')
>>>
>>> and make related modifications to the ownCloud core so it delivers the image
>>> (if it not already does ATM). An alternative would be our very own CSS
>>> syntax extension and maybe something like url('%imagepath:myApp:foo.png%')
>>> and some regex parsing, but that's no way intuitive for CSS developers..!
>>>
>>> Florian
>>>
>>> Am 03.08.2012 16:12, schrieb Georg Ehrke:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 03.08.2012 um 16:10 schrieb Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Diederik,
>>>>> I sent a second email 40 minutes ago, where I said that it's not
>>>>> working without apps either.
>>>>> Did my second email not hit the list?
>>>>
>>>> It did hit the list.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Alessandro
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Diederik de Haas <didi.debian at cknow.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday 03 August 2012 16:01:37 Alessandro Cosentino wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> normaly you should use smth like this (taken from contact app)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> background: white url('%appswebroot%/contacts/img/Jcrop.gif') top left
>>>>>>>> repeat;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> that's what I use, as I wrote in the previous email
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In your first mail you said you used:
>>>>>> background: url('%appswebroot%/apps/news/img/rss.svg')
>>>>>>
>>>>>> note that you have /apps/ in that url, while eMerzh didn't
>>>>>
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