Some new features/bug fixes in DA overnight

[Joe]

There will be some new "features" and bug fixes happening in DA overnight.

Namely,

1. example.com will no longer appear in webmail. It now defaults to hostname.
2. Added database level privileges: grant, references, create_tmp_tables, lock_tables
3. DA doesn't allow password protected directories to be setup. This should allow both to modify .htaccess files without issue.

There are various other updates, most apply to the admin user only.

Joe

[muttdog]

Joe did you notice that DNS changes aren't taking place immedaitely anymore?

local DNS i mean... Adding subdomain use to be effective immedaitely on DA, but not it doesn't...
dont know how long it takes or if it works, since i only tried about 10 minutes ago... Just asking since it use to be immediate as soon as a DNS entry was added...

Thanks

[Joe]

Did you add the sub through the control panel?

It should be relatively quick - just an "A" record change, unless you've got cached lookup.

On Ensim, it wasn't necessarily a DNS change, the wildcard record was added when the domain was created - so it just "seemed" immediate.

[muttdog]

Originally posted by Joe@Nov 16 2003, 10:00 PM
Did you add the sub through the control panel?

It should be relatively quick - just an "A" record change, unless you've got cached lookup.

On Ensim, it wasn't necessarily a DNS change, the wildcard record was added when the domain was created - so it just "seemed" immediate.
yea added through panel...

It use to be immediate... it seems to work after a little time... It started to work when i just tested...

i was just use to it working instaneous... Maybe i have a cacheing thing on my side...

my fault

[Rich]

3. DA doesn't allow password protected directories to be setup. This should allow both to modify .htaccess files without issue.


Umm.. I thought it did! I had some protected directories that were working just fine. I guess I should go back and check again.

One question with this, the docs say that if you turn on frontpage extensions that you can't use .htaccess to protect directories anymore. But it doen't say how one can protect directories when using frontpage. Is this impossible with frontpage?

[thevillageinn]

if you lose .htaccess with frontpage extensions I would assume you lose that capability all together, since I believe IIS has it's own provision built-in for protecting directories and such not an external file.

seems a little fishy that you'd lose the .htaccess capability, but I don't know anything about the frontpage extensions.