Re: LAS banner question

[Peggy Li <Peggy.Li@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Lynn,  stop and start the Tomcat server did the trick!

peggy
------------------------------------------------------------

Lynn deWitt wrote:

> Hi Jon and Peggy,
>   I've found that just shift-reload works for some changes you make to 
> the .vm files, but for other changes they don't seem to take effect 
> until you stop and restart the server:
>
> ./stopserver.sh
> ./startserver.sh
>
> ("restart" sometimes doesn't do the trick either!)  Lynn
>
> On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Jonathan Callahan wrote:
>
> > Peggy,
> >
> > Did you clear out your browser cache and do a 'Shift-Reload' to make 
> > sure it's downloading and using the latest HTML?  Sometimes I even 
> > exit the browser after emptying the browser cache to make sure it's 
> > not remembering anything.
> >
> >
> > -- Jon
> >
> >
> > Peggy Li wrote:
> >
> > > Jon, it didn't work, I swear!  I kept reloading and switching to a 
> > > different browser on different machines, I still see the old banner.
> > > Do I need to regenerate a las.war file?
> > >
> > > peggy
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Jonathan Callahan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Peggy,
> > > >
> > > > You've found the place to make changes so that they are visible 
> > > > immediately.  You can make a change, hit reload on your browser and 
> > > > see what you've done.  The only problem is that these changes will 
> > > > be lost if you ever rerun the configure script that initially sets 
> > > > up your LAS.
> > > >
> > > > To make sure that your improvements are not lost and that you can 
> > > > easily upgrade you should make a copy of your modified velocity 
> > > > template in the las/server/custom/ directory.  When you initially 
> > > > configure LAS this directory is searched for customizations before 
> > > > files are loaded into Tomcat.  You can check 
> > > > las/las_servlet/build.xml for specifics.
> > > >
> > > > Here's where you need to put your customizations:
> > > >
> > > > cp $LASHOME/las_servlet/jakarta/webapps/las/VM_global_library.vm \
> > > >   $LASHOME/server/custom/las_servlet/src
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -- Jon
> > > >
> > > > Peggy Li wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Jon,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am trying to change the banner of the LAS page to an image, but 
> > > > > couldn't find a solution in the LAS document and the mail archive.  
> > > > > I found a file call VM_global_library.vm in 
> > > > > $LASHOME/las_servlet/jakarta/webapps/las where I can change 
> > > > > macro(banner title) to use an image instead.  I figure that if this 
> > > > > is the right place to make the changes, I'll have to compile to to 
> > > > > make it effective, but I don't know how.  Could you please let me 
> > > > > know how to do that?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks a lot!
> > > > >
> > > > > peggy
> Lynn deWitt
> Pacific Fisheries Environmental Lab
> 1352 Lighthouse Ave
> Pacific Grove, CA 93907
> (831)648-9036