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Site cutover issues - Site needs to become an approved departmental website in order to use the contacts feature #108

Open jccc-dn opened 9 years ago

jccc-dn commented 9 years ago

According to George Mortell, Sr. Systems Analyst for JCCC, the Web Development and Digital Media site needs to become an approved JCCC departmental site in order to have access to SMTP services (so we can enable the email contact service). Currently sites hosted on the student server have all SMTP services blocked so that the sites cannot be used to send out spam which could cause the jccc.edu domain to be blacklisted. Only sites hosted on the main JCCC server can have email services enabled.

In order to host the WDDM site on the JCCC server, there is a process that Professor Hopper and the department will need to go through to get the new site approved as an official departmental site rather than as an academic site. The process includes making sure that the site conforms to the JCCC branding and site governance policies. Professor Hopper will need to contact George Mortell to get that process started. I have asked George Mortell for any such branding and site governance documentation so that we can make sure that we comply as closely as possible in the time left for completion.

pmcmahon02 commented 9 years ago

good lord.

jhopper commented 9 years ago

Just use my jccc email address. I will take care of the rest. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

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On May 15, 2015, at 2:34 PM, jccc-dn notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

According to George Mortell, Sr. Systems Analyst for JCCC, the Web Development and Digital Media site needs to become an approved JCCC departmental site in order to have access to SMTP services (so we can enable the email contact service). Currently sites hosted on the student server have all SMTP services blocked so that the sites cannot be used to send out spam which could cause the jccc.eduhttp://jccc.edu domain to be blacklisted. Only sites hosted on the main JCCC server can have email services enabled.

In order to host the WDDM site on the JCCC server, there is a process that Professor Hopper and the department will need to go through to get the new site approved as an official departmental site rather than as an academic site. The process includes making sure that the site conforms to the JCCC branding and site governance policies. Professor Hopper will need to contact George Mortell to get that process started. I have asked George Mortell for any such branding and site governance documentation so that we can make sure that we comply as closely as possible in the time left for completion.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/WEB290-2015/webdevcapstone/issues/108.

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jheckey94 commented 9 years ago

The contact form is fixed. What was missing:

method="post" action="bin/contact_me.php"

That line of code is what is needed for the form to successfully submit in the first place. After adding these, the contact form still did not work. I uploaded the files to my personal server and they worked fine.

What David is saying is probably true, I reached a similar conclusion just by looking at the fact that the domain we are working on is a sub domain OF another sub domain and may have different privileges.

When the site goes live at webtech.jccc.edu, I don't think we will have the same issues. The space I tested on my personal server was a sub domain as well, and the current webtech.jccc.edu space should still have email privileges active.

jhopper commented 9 years ago

Just have the form open the client email account and send an email to jhopper@jccc.edumailto:jhopper@jccc.edu. We cannot open the academic server.

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From: jheckey94 [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 1:09 PM To: WEB290-2015/webdevcapstone Cc: James Hopper Subject: Re: [webdevcapstone] Site cutover issues - Site needs to become an approved departmental website in order to use the contacts feature (#108)

The contact form is fixed. What was missing:

method="post" action="bin/contact_me.php"

That line of code is what is needed for the form to successfully submit in the first place. After adding these, the contact form still did not work. I uploaded the files to my personal server and they worked fine.

What David is saying is probably true, I reached a similar conclusion just by looking at the fact that the domain we are working on is a sub domain OF another sub domain and may have different privileges.

When the site goes live at webtech.jccc.edu, I don't think we will have the same issues. The space I tested on my personal server was a sub domain as well, and the current webtech.jccc.edu space should still have email privileges active.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/WEB290-2015/webdevcapstone/issues/108#issuecomment-103618173.

The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by the Johnson County Community College ("JCCC") and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify JCCC by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you.

jccc-dn commented 9 years ago

This issue is not closed until we have email contacts working and sending emails to Prof. Hopper's email.

Per Professor Hopper: "Just have the form open the client email account and send an email to jhopper@jccc.edumailto:jhopper@jccc.edu. We cannot open the academic server."

This means that the contact form will have to be replaced with something else. We need to discuss this before doing anything and it will probably need to wait until after the presentation. Essentially the Get Connected page needs to be re-designed or alternatively the department will need to go through the process of getting approval to host the site on the main JCCC server rather than the academic server.