[pmwiki-users] Restricting information (Was: General Farming Questions)

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-09-29  09:15 AM +0200, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
>We haven't implemented anything like this yet, but so far I had thought
>that it'd have to be implemented using wiki fields:

Christian

I have almost the same requirements, and I have used different 
subdomains for each of the fields. Some of these are protected by 
Apache Basic Authentication, and I have a config.php entry that 
forces the Author name to the authenticated user name. It really 
works quite well except that there are pages that I would like to be 
common to all the subdomains. Currently I make copies, but it is a 
pain keeping them synchronized.

I am thinking of putting these common pages into yet another field 
and referencing them from the "main" fields. I think if I do some 
clever "Alias match" stuff in Apache I should be able to have them 
appear to be part of the referring group. Not exactly sure if or how 
this would work ...

I am also wondering if it might be possible to have a common field 
that has backlinks to the field that referred to it - so when a user 
comes from field "A", the links all go back to "A".

The other possibility is to use this cookbook recipe:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/UseCommonPagesInAWikiFarm

The problem is, I want more than one shared group. At the very least 
the groups "Profiles" and "Shared" should be common. Still, I think 
the cookbook still applies, I just need a few more entries.


Neil

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