DMDC Staging Server

This subdomain is a staging server for the Temporal Earth component of the DMDC project.

The entry level can be found at: /time-machine

The individual animations can be found at at:

Features:

• The Time-machine component operates as a single-page app, residing at /time-machine/index.html
  - however, a user-friendly URL can get the user to any specific animation, such as /time-machine/GoldRush
  

  On an Apache server, this is achieved with the following code in the .htaccess file within the /time-machine/ folder:
  

  RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.html?path=$1 [L,QSA]


  - there should be a way to achieve the same on other server software.

  /time-machine/index.html contains a element that points back to the folder /time-machine/, ensuring that images etc are correctly referenced.
  Javascript strips document.baseURI from window.location.href, and parses the remaining directory names, switching the window's location using window.history.pushState().