[pmwiki-users] working directory

[John Feezell]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>Neil writes:
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>>At 2006-02-17  01:40 PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
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>>>On a related note, I'm really desirous of having a standard directory
>>>(other than wiki.d/ itself, although it could be a subdirectory of
>>>wiki.d/) where cache files, index files, and other working files
>>>could be safely kept.
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>>>
>>How about working.d/  ???
>>
>>Not an obvious name in anything other than English, but then scripts/ 
>>and cookbook/ aren't either.
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>I'm thinking I will shorten this to work.d/, and use that.  This
>would be the place for temporary files, and we could also see about
>moving deleted pages into this directory (instead of leaving them
>in wiki.d/).
>
>However, this does have the downside of needing to create an extra 
>.htaccess file to protect the work.d directory.
>
>On another note, Hagan Fox once remarked that it would be nice to 
>put all of these writable directories (wiki.d/, uploads/, work.d/) 
>into a single directory -- something like:
>
>    pmwiki/
>      pmwiki.php
>      local/
>      scripts/
>      cookbook/
>      pub/
>      data/
>        uploads/
>        work.d/
>        wiki.d/
>      wikilib.d/
>
>One advantage of this is that the data/ directory can be exist as
>part of the distribution, and we simply tell people to change its 
>permissions to 777 or 2777 as appropriate when it's needed.  
>(No more setting/unsetting permissions on the pmwiki root.)
>
>Another advantage is that one .htaccess file in data/ can protect
>that entire tree.  But then we'd need a second .htaccess file in
>uploads/ to allow direct webserver access to uploads, or else ship 
>PmWiki with $EnableDirectDownload turned off by default.
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>
This sound really good to me.  I would vote "yes."
/JF

>Of course, if we do something like this we would have in place
>some transitional code (to exist for a long time into the 2.1
>release) so that existing sites can continue to use the traditional
>PmWiki directory structures.  OTOH, moving to the new structure
>is as simple as renaming or moving a couple of directories, so
>it's not as if the transition is difficult.
>
>Comments?
>
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