[pmwiki-users] question about wiki farms

[Maria McKinley]

Ok, not so many takers on that question. Let's make it simpler. Is
wiki.d the only directory that the server writes to for publishing on
the web? The rest of the directories are all configurations,
documentation and other things that the web server reads, but does not
write to, is this correct?

~thanks,
maria

On 8/24/07, Maria McKinley <parody at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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
>