TOOLS FOR STORING, ACCESSING AND RESTORING WEBSITE CONTENT VIA A WEBSITE REPOSITORY

• US 20160267095A1
• Filed: 05/19/2016
• Published: 09/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Inventors: LeBert, Don, Kiser, Domingo JW, Devarajan, Ganesh, Redfoot, Todd
• Granted Patent: US 9,858,354 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1469 Backup restoration techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1471 involving logging of persistent data for recovery
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Systems and method of the present invention provide for one or more server computers configured to identify, within a database transaction log, a dynamic website content in a database and a command modifying the dynamic website content, write the dynamic website content and the command modifying the dynamic website content to a website repository as a delta, receive a request to reverse the command modifying the dynamic website content, identify, within the delta, the command modifying the dynamic website content, and generate and execute a database query configured to reverse the command modifying the dynamic website content.

Claims

1. a system comprising at least one processor executing instructions causing a server computer, coupled to a network, to:

host, within a website directory on the server computer, a website;

receive, from at least one client computer coupled to the network, a transmission encoding a modification to a content within the website;

insert, into an electronic text file hosted in the website directory, the modification to the content;

render, for display on the at least one client computer, the content including the modification to the content inserted into the electronic text file;

receive, from a control panel displayed on a client computer coupled to the network and operated by an administrator of the website, a request for a reversal of the modification to the content;

execute at least one instruction configured to;

delete, from the electronic text file, the modification to the content; and

render, for display on the at least one client computer, the content without the modification to the content.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the modification comprises uploading a website file or executing a database query;

responsive to the modification comprising uploading the website file, the instructions cause the server computer to;

determine at least one difference between an uploaded website file and a hosted website file within the website directory, the uploaded website file sharing a file name with the hosted website file;

insert, into the electronic text file;

the file name; and

the at least one difference; and

execute the at least one instruction configured to delete the file name and the at least one difference from the electronic text file; and

responsive to the modification comprising executing the database query, the instructions cause the server computer to;

insert, into the electronic text file;

the database query; and

a second database query to reverse the database query; and

execute the at least one instruction configured to;

execute the second database query; and

delete the database query and the second database query from the electronic text file.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising an interim software, executed on the server computer between an upload software and the directory, the interim software comprising instructions causing the server computer, prior to rendering the content, to:

receive a transmission encoding a request to display the content;

render a modified website file comprising the at least one difference from the electronic text file; and

transmit the modified website file to the at least one client computer.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the database query is imported from a database transaction log uploaded to the server computer; and

the database query returns a dynamic content to be displayed within the content of the website file.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the electronic text file comprises a record of the modification, the record comprising:

a user that requested the modification;

the file name of the website file or a database table queried;

the content modified; and

a time stamp indicating when the modification was executed.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein the at least one difference between the uploaded website file and the hosted website file is determined:

line by line;

character by character;

or

according to binary differences.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein a user interface selection control defines a change, a timestamp or a version of the website for which the modification is to be reversed.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the website directory comprises a website repository wherein the administrator can commit, branch, merge and roll back a version of the website according to the modification inserted into the electronic text file.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the control panel further comprises a plurality of website repository user interface controls receiving, from the administrator, at least one request to:

commit, to the hosted website file, the at least one difference between the uploaded website file and the hosted website file;

merge the uploaded website file and the hosted website file;

or

roll back the website repository to a particular time, date, commit or version of the website.

10. a method comprising the steps of:

at least one processor executing instructions causing a server computer, coupled to a network, to;

hosting a website within a website directory on a server computer coupled to a network, and comprising a processor executing instructions;

receiving, by the server computer, from at least one client computer coupled to the network, a transmission encoding a modification to a content within the website;

inserting, by the server computer, into an electronic text file hosted in the website directory, the modification to the content;

rendering, by the server computer, for display on the at least one client computer, the content including the modification to the content inserted into the electronic text file;

receiving, by the server computer, from a control panel displayed on a client computer coupled to the network and operated by an administrator of the website, a request for a reversal of the modification to the content;

executing, by the server computer, at least one instruction configured to;

delete, from the electronic text file, the modification to the content; and

render, for display on the at least one client computer, the content without the modification to the content.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising the steps of:

uploading a website file or executing a database query;

responsive to the modification comprising uploading the website file;

determining, by the server computer, at least one difference between an uploaded website file and a hosted website file within the website directory, the uploaded website file sharing a file name with the hosted website file;

inserting, by the server computer, into the electronic text file;

the file name; and

the at least one difference; and

executing, by the server computer, the at least one instruction configured to delete the file name and the at least one difference from the electronic text file; and

responsive to the modification comprising executing the database query;

inserting, by the server computer, into the electronic text file;

the database query; and

a second database query to reverse the database query; and

executing, by the server computer, the at least one instruction configured to;

execute the second database query; and

delete the database query and the second database query from the electronic text file.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of executing, by the server computer, between an upload software and the directory, an interim software comprising instructions causing the server computer, prior to rendering the content, to:

receive a transmission encoding a request to display the content;

render a modified website file comprising the at least one difference from the electronic text file; and

transmit the modified website file to the at least one client computer.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

importing, by the server computer, the database query from a database transaction log uploaded to the server computer; and

returning, by the server computer, a dynamic content from the database query to be displayed within the content of the website file.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of storing, within the electronic text file a record of the modification, the record comprising:

a user that requested the modification;

the file name of the website file or a database table queried;

the content modified; and

a time stamp indicating when the modification was executed.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of determining the at least one difference between the uploaded website file and the hosted website file:

line by line;

character by character;

or

according to binary differences.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein a user interface selection control defines a change, a timestamp or a version of the website for which the modification is to be reversed.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the website directory comprises a website repository wherein the administrator can commit, branch, merge and roll back a version of the website according to the modification inserted into the electronic text file.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising the step of receiving, from the administrator via a plurality of website repository user interface controls on the control panel, at least one request to:

commit, to the hosted website file, the at least one difference between the uploaded website file and the hosted website file;

merge the uploaded website file and the hosted website file;

or

roll back the website repository to a particular time, date, commit or version of the website.