[Pmwiki-users] Cookbook.WikiFarm

John Rankin john.rankin
Mon May 3 15:29:16 CDT 2004


On Tuesday, 4 May 2004 6:51 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 02:37:02PM -0400, Crisses wrote:
>> 
>> On May 2, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Eric Celeste wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> >Am I the only one who sees a clear echo of the "hierarchical groups"
>> >proposal in this WikiFarm implementation? It seems to me that 
>> >hierarchical groups would be syntactically simpler and functionally 
>> >more flexible.
>> 
>> This includes an assumption, I think, that each "Field" is linked to a 
>> virtual domain.
>> That makes it a very very different concept from
>"hierarchical groups" 
>
>To clarify a bit further, I think of fields as being linked not only to
>"virtual domains", but also to URL prefixes within the same domain.
>I.e., I think it ought to be possible for a single domain (e.g.,
>'www.pmichaud.com') to have a wikifarm with multiple fields in the
>same domain, distinguished by URL.  For example, we could have
>
>   http://www.example.com/~tbl/wiki/Main/HomePage
>   http://www.example.com/~marc/wiki/Main/HomePage
>   http://www.example.com/~brianb/wiki/Main/HomePage
>
>all of which are separate fields in a common wikifarm.
>
>This is indeed different from the commonly held concept of hierarchical 
>groups, which to me would be a way of organizing pages within a single 
>field such that all pages share the same base URL and allow groups to
>contain subgroups.
>
>Pm
>
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Yes, the way we implemented it happens to do:

www.shrekthesheep.com/Main/HomePage
www.shrekthesheep.com/BeforeShearing/Main/HomePage 
www.shrekthesheep.com/AfterShearing/Main/HomePage

because it was easiest.

But I'm pretty sure it would be possible to do what Patrick suggests.
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