[pmwiki] [Pmwiki-users] Webmenu, FlexLayout, and CSS.

[Bernhard.Weichel@t-online.de]

Patrick,

Please take into account, that there are basically four fountains of
files in a PmWiki environment which must not be messed up:

1. "official distributions" from Patrick Michaud

2. Cookbook contributions

3. Local customizations

4. User files

5. Runtime files generated by PmWiki for internal purposes  (e.g. mailposts)

We could treat Cookbook contributions the same as local customization
since they are installed manually by the local wiki administrator.

But please keep official directories , local customizations and User Files
(to be backed up) and runtime files (probably not requiring backup)
strictly separate. I'd rather have more than one pub directory.

This would make it much easier to incorporate the contributions, to
apply a proper cvs as well as backup.

Bernhard

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:07:17PM +0200,
> Bernhard.Weichel at t-online.de wrote:
>>
>> Note that we should strictly separate standard wiki distributetd
>> files from local customizations. In this case we need a /localpub
>
> I'm not planning to place many standard wiki files in pub/ -- the only
> files that will appear there as part of the standard distribution will
> be pmwiki-50.gif and pmwiki-50.psd (the logo).  Other than that it'll
> be
> an empty directory from the standard distribution
> perspective--available
> for use by the local administrator.
>
> Cookbook modules may load files into local/  or pub/, but that's up to
> the Cookbook module authors.
>
>> Would it be possible that there is a /local/pub from which the files
>> may be accessed by the webserver?
>
> I would suggest pub/local/ instead of local/pub/ -- makes the security
> easier to handle.
>
> However, site administrators (and cookbook module authors) can
> organize local/ and pub/ however they wish.  The only files that will
> go in local/
> as part of the standard distribution are the .htaccess and README
> files-- PmWiki will never store anything else there.  I'm still
> working on the layout for the pub/ directory--for example, uploads/
> may move into pub/
> for new installations.
>
> Pm