[pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited
Scott Connard
connard at dsg-inc.com
Sat Feb 3 16:32:08 CST 2007
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:20:54PM +0100,
> christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>
>>> I'd be very interested to hear suggestions for what we should
>>> name this
>>> 'top-level writable directory'. (In fact, it's my major block at
>>> this
>>> point.) Ideally it should be something that aids understanding
>>> by new
>>> PmWiki administrators as to the directory's purpose.
>>>
>>
>> How about
>> write.d/
>> or even
>> writeable.d/
>>
>> But maybe you should write down a simple explanation of the
>> purpose of
>> this directory? For instance, is it supposed to *not* be accessible
>> directly via the web?
>>
>
> The purpose of the directory is to be the place where PmWiki
> creates files of various sorts, excluding uploads. This includes
> a wiki.d/ directory for holding page files, as well as various
> subdirectories (e.g., work.d/) to hold work files that PmWiki
> uses at various times, including flock, pageindex, notifylist,
> PHP session files, etc.
>
> The files within the writable directory are not intended to be
> accessed directly via the web. It will generally be protected
> by a .htaccess file. Sites that want to run things in a
> somewhat more secure fashion will be able to set a configuration
> variable to locate the writable directory outside of the normal
> pmwiki/webserver tree.
>
Why not just have the top directory be wiki.d/ like it is now and
migrate the wiki pages into a pages.d/ subdirectory. That would be
consistent with what we have now. In fact the pages.d/ directory
could still be optional as well as the directory-per-group
directories that you've been discussing as well.
Scott.
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