[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: setup script, sample-local.php, local/, and a slippery slope

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:12:41PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > 
> > I don't want apache to be allowed to write to local/. Couldn't we put the
> > generated file in a dedicated directoy (to which apache may write).
> 
> I wasn't going to let apache write into local/ generically -- it'll still 
> be 755 permissions.  I was just going to let apache write to the
> setup-local.php file, which would be 777 permissions by default.

Hmm.. I'm still not keen on the idea of letting apache writing to any file
in that directory -- not to mention that it might be bit confusing that 
some files are writable by apache and others aren't.

> I can always have setup-local.php written into wiki.d, but that seems a
> bit weird somehow (even though other non-page files get written there also).  

I think maybe a var/ as John wrote isn't such a bad idea, especially if 
there currently are more non-page files in wiki.d (then they could be 
moved to var/).

What are these other files in wiki.d/? 

> And I don't know that it's worth creating a separate writable directory 
> just to hold one or two writable files.

Oh, come on :-)

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr