FCKEditor

[rosekolodny]

I've started having problems using the Web Page Module (and anywhere FCKEditor is needed) in Firefox 3.0.14 because FCKEditor wants to get downloaded to my computer instead of running embedded in the page. It's fine in Explorer 6, but has the same problem in Safari 3.2.

I'm not sure if this is even worth your time, if the future of the Xataface project will involve a switch to TinyMCE.

Beth

[shannah]

What version of Xataface are you using? Perhaps we need to update to a more recent FCKeditor.

[shannah]

On second thought this might be an issue with your setup. I'm running Firefox 3.0.14 and Safari 4 and am not having this problem with any of my installations. Check your server error logs to see if it offers any clues... still may want to try upgrading to latest xataface.

[rosekolodny]

I just figured out that it's something to do with my .htaccess file. When I delete .htaccess, the editor works fine. Code is as follows:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?-table=n1_pages&-action=page&page_path=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html


Doesn't seem too special to me. But I'm not wise in the ways of these things.

[shannah]

Your AddType directive seems to cause .html pages to be parsed by the PHP parser. First of all, directing your webserver to treat all .html files as PHP files may cause extra load or even open security holes (although I can't think of a likely scenario for the latter off the top of my head).

Second, if your server is set with short_open_tags on for PHP (i.e. it will accept <? as an abbreviation for the full <?php open tag, then this could cause problems with XHTML files whose first line begin with <?xml ...

I suspect that this is what is happening. FCKEditor likely loads a number of XHTML files via ajax, but your webserver is trying to parse the xml as PHP... which causes a problem.

Solution: Remove the AddType directive.
If you have specific pages with the .html extension that you need to parse with php, change their extension to .php, then use mod_rewrite to rewrite requests for the .html pages to the new locations.

[rosekolodny]

Thanks - I'll make those changes and go read up on it.