[pmwiki-users] Delete pages are still listed by (:pagelist...:)

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 06:47:12PM +0100, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> > Bah... I finally figured it out. Not sure if this is a bug.
> > 
> > In my case I hadn't really deleted the page, but instead moved them into a
> > new subdirectory of wiki.d/ called 'deleted'. The somewhat surprising
> > result to me was that (:pagelist:) found these pages....
> > 
> > Should (:pagelist:)  automatically look in all subdirectories of wiki.d?
> > (It's a good behaviour if you do use subdirectories, but maybe it should
> > be controlled via some variable?)
> 
> My approach has been to move deleted pages into a directory that isn't
> within wiki.d/ .
> 
> Another option is to change permissions on the deleted/ subdirectory
> to 700, so that the webserver doesn't have permission to read it.
> 
> Because of the ability to organize wiki.d/ into separate directories
> for each group (as well as a lot of other organization possibilities),
> I think we need to retain the setting to automatically search
> subdirectories of wiki.d/, especially since there are a number of
> other ways to prevent it from happening.

Ok, at least I know about this now. It seemed quite convenient at the time 
to simply move the pages into a subdirectory.

cheers
/Christian

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