[revIgniter] revIgniter and LC8

[Alex Tweedly]

Thanks Dave - good suggestion for the htaccess file, this means you 
never use the 'default' version of LC, you are using the latest version 
of LC 6.x.x without having to specify the exact detailed version !

-- Alex.

On 05/05/2016 01:08, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> Hi @Alex, I’m also using revIgniter on HostM and not seeing the same thing…
>
> BTW, on the advice of a HostM technician a while ago I use the following in a .htaccess file in a domain folder to select which version of LC Server is used (I’ve not tried setting it to “lc8” but should think that would work too) - anyway, using this means you don’t have to make any changes to the .lc file extensions
>
> <FilesMatch "\.lc$">
> SetHandler lc6
> </FilesMatch>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>> On 5 May 2016, at 00:45, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:
>>
>> [ Hope no-one minds me cross-posting to two lists - but I think this could be useful for people on both lists ]
>>
>> I have a couple of web sites based on revIgniter, hosted on hostM.com
>>
>> They've been running happily up until today - running the default version in use by hostm which was (probably) the latest released version (i.e. 7.1.4 I think).
>>
>> Today, LC8..0 was released, so hostM have changed their default version to that - and all my revIgniter sites now fail - see traceback info below.
>>
>> hostm do provide a way to choose the version to be used, by using a different extension (i.e. .lc vs .lc7 vs .lc6 etc.)
>> However, using this with revIgniter doesn't work, because revIgniter then uses the same extension in all included files.
>>
>> So - in case anyone else runs into this - the quick work-around is to add the second line below at line97 in ignite.lc, which is then renamed ignite.lc7
>> (and of course modify any links/redirects as needed ...)
>>
>>      put "." & item -1 of sTempFileName into gEXT
>>      put ".lc" into gEXT    -- override for now !! AGT
>>
>> There may be a better workaround using .htaccess - but I couldn't get that to work; I can't figure out what to use for the engine name.
>>
>>
>> So now that we have a workaround, what's the real problem ?  What about LC8.0 breaks with revIgniter ?
>> The traceback is as follows .. web site is  http://christineirvine.co.uk <http://christineirvine.co.uk/>  (still under development)
>>
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/libraries/Router.lc"
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/libraries/URI.lc"
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/libraries/Config.lc"
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/libraries/Log.lc"
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/libraries/Benchmark.lc"
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/application/config/config.lc"
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/libraries/Hooks.lc"
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/application/config/constants.lc"
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/revigniter/Common.lc"
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/revigniter/RevIgniter.lc"
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/libraries/Router.lc"
>>    row 1114, col 35: script: parsing error (13)
>>    row 1114, col 35: Operators mod: can't divide scalar by matrix (then)
>>    row 1114, col 35: do: can't find command (then)
>>    row 1114, col 35: request: error in keyword expression (then)
>>    row 89, col 1: script: parsing error
>>    row 89, col 1: if-then: error in statement
>>    row 89, col 1: if-then: error in statement
>>    row 89, col 1: if-then: error in statement
>>    row 77, col 1: Handler: error in statement (rigLoadLibrary)
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/libraries/Output.lc"
>>    row 138, col 1: Handler: can't find handler (rigLoadLibrary)
>> file "/home/ua886128/public_html/christineirvine.co.uk/system/libraries/Input.lc"
>>
>> I've not been able to identify what is the failing line, or even which script it is in :-)
>>
>> -- Alex.
>>
>>
>>
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