About this blog
Writings mostly about Lotus Notes/Domino...by me :
Jesper Kiaer

Looking for a Notes/Domino developer? I'm available

Jezzper Consulting
Notesnet.dk
IBM
Planet Lotus

RSS 2.0 Feed
Bookmark and Share
Beware of the URL bug in 8.5.2 and how to avoid it.
As I wrote in my blog the other day there is a URL bug in 8.5.2.

It seems the problem is that !opendatabase does not work in 8.5.2.

This has given me problems in several of my websites,

Normally you would for public web sites set the Domino server to use ! in URL command instead of ?.

The ? has a special meaning in a URL which (in the old days at least) would confuse search engines when hitting a Domino URL.

So IBM came up the idea of using ! in the URL instead.

This only required a different setting in the Internet Site document.



Setting "Make this site..." to enabled would allow domino to use ! instead in the URL.

However since !opendatabase does not work in Domino 8.5.2 you need to disable this to stay out of trouble for now as a work around

UPDATE

Just found out ...I can not just disable it since a lot of my websites are not working if I turn it of.
Domino will not only use ? instead... but completely reject the use of !... crap..

Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 31-08-2010 10:51:08 Full Post

How many other application servers can be upgraded in less than 5-10 minutes? Amazing!
Sharepoint? ROFL...
Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 26-08-2010 00:02:55 Full Post

First Lotus Domino 8.5.2 bug, website stopped working
Upgraded the very Domino server this blog is running on just now, 8.5.1 to 8.5.2.

Things went pretty well, the install was blazing fast due to the fact I am using SSD on the server.
After starting the upgraded Domino things looked ok, until I tried opening my blog http://nevermind.dk and got a 404. Huh??
I could access the blog by typing the full URL.

Something has changed in 8.5.2, since the Internet Site document



does not work any more.

Changing it to



made it work again.

The Domino server runs on Centos 5.5

Better check the other Internet Sites....

Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 25-08-2010 22:55:39 Full Post

Nice to see that people still get excited about a point release
Go Notes 8.5.2 ! :-)

Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 24-08-2010 23:23:59 Full Post

This is pretty scary stuff
This is pretty scary stuff.


USA, I do think it is time to wake up and face the challenge

See it live at http://www.usdebtclock.org

Finally some Flash which is actually put to good use ;-)

Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 13-08-2010 12:07:22 Full Post

Forget about Firefox 3.6.8 - Get Firefox 4 now, it is great!
As written in my blog I have been having lots of slow and hanging connections in Firefox 3.6.8.


Forget about it and download Firefox 4 (Beta 3) now!!


It works great and has lots of good stuff in it.
You can install it without effecting your 3.6 installation, so there is no excuse not to test it.

Download it here:

Published by: Jesper B. Kiær at 12-08-2010 23:14:34 Full Post