The update part refers to the redirect when a database is found whilst
making a HTTP POST request, as part of the init-db
process (A.K.A. website's first run procedure).
The auth to nera change is because I didn't catch all of the moves in
a previous commit. The image I was running at the time still had the
auth version so it wasn't showing any errors. I spotted this one when
trying to run a new image.
The web package was already using code from some of these
packages. This commit moves some of the code in the web package into
one of the various referenced packages and also has 'web' utilise the
new features in those pacakges also.
The biggest shift is in how the alert-messages are handled (store in
ningle:*session* across HTTP requests) and how auth. is handled --
mostly the redirects functionality.
https://github.com/vindarel/cl-cookieweb (for GitHub Repo. and
instructions).
The reason for using this is because it makes it easier to run the
website as a standalone thing. You don't need to link it up to
Quicklisp's /local-project directory. It has scripts to help you build
the binaries and to run the website (as a standalone) thing. I, also,
hadn't use this 'cookie cutter' program before so it's a good time to
get my feet wet.
I'm going to try this with Python and Django first. Because it's not
my personal project, it might be better to use a language which is
more mainstream. It should reduce the 'Bus Factor'.
Craig Oates