[pmwiki-users] question about wiki farms

Maria McKinley parody at u.washington.edu
Fri Aug 24 16:38:20 CDT 2007


So, for security reasons we have traditionally mounted home
directories via nfs on our web server read-only (so unfortunately just
making Esample/wiki.d/ ourselves with universal write permissions
doesn't help). This worked fine for normal web pages; users edited
their own pages from their accounts, and the web server just served
them. We have a wiki for everyone, in which the customizations are
located on the web server itself, but people have expressed interest
in having their own wikis, where they control things like skins and
other local customizations. It would be great if they could create the
directory that includes all of these customizations in their own home
directory, and the web server reads these, but creates the wiki files
on the web server itself. Has anyone else tried to do this or have any
ideas on how this might be done?

thanks,
maria

On 8/24/07, Mike Shanley <up at upisup.com> wrote:
> If you've got: Example/index.php, the wiki files go to Example/wiki.d/
>
> Try to make the wiki.d directory yourself and set universal write
> permissions.
>
> Maria McKinley wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am having difficulties setting up a wiki farm, and I suspect the
> > problems has to do with where/how the php files that the web server
> > writes are put. When you create the directory for your additional wiki
> > and write the index.php file, is this directory you just created where
> > the server will be writing files for the farm, or does the server just
> > need read permissions to this directory, and the files are actually
> > created in the original directory?
> >
> > thanks,
> > maria
> >
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Maria Mckinley
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Physiology and Biophysics
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University of Washington
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parody at u.washington.edu



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