[pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:54:09AM -0000, marc wrote:
>> Patrick R. Michaud said...
>>> The simplest approach at this point is to simply have PmWiki
>>> create a work.d/ directory (in the pmwiki root) and have it start
>>> storing its files there.  The work files that have traditionally
>>> gone into wiki.d/ would then lose the dot, so that we have:
>>>
>>>     work.d/flock
>>>     work.d/pagelist
>>>     work.d/notify
>>>     ...etc...
>>>
>>
>> If this "simple" solution works, then may I turn the question around and
>> ask: what problems (or future limitations) would it impose? (As opposed
>> to a more complex solution.)
>
> Downsides:
>   - it's another (webserver writable) directory to keep track of
>   - for sites that have been moving wiki.d/ out of the pmwiki root,
>     this directory has to be moved also
>   - the work.d/ directory has to be protected somehow (just like
>     wiki.d/ does)

Could we have a writable directory called pmwiki.d/, which in turns by 
default contains wiki.d/ and work.d/. (Possibly even uploads?)

Alternatively, put work.d/ inside wiki.d/.

I haven't thought this through, but keeping a single directory structure 
that pmwiki can write to seems like a good idea.

/Christian

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