[pmwiki-users] yet another file upload request ...

[Neil Herber]

One of my PmWIki installations is being used to support a training group. 
They have several projects on the go at any time and I have created a 
separate group for each project. They also like to upload and download 
massive Powerpoint, Word, and PDF files. They are also talking about MPEG 
movie files ...

The uploading and downloading works well, but having just a single folder 
per project is a limitation. The authors like to keep older versions of 
files hanging around, but usually in a folder called "OlderVersions" so 
that they don't obscure the current files. They also want to be able to 
group files in folders (not zipped) such as "DayOneSlides" and "DayTwoSlides".

Is there any way within PmWiki to have this kind of folder organization? I 
recognize that moving files from one folder to another might be too much to 
ask for, and I am willing to do that using other methods. However, it would 
be great if the (:attachlist:) markup  .....   (author pauses here to try 
something)  .... I just created a folder inside the uploads/group/ folder, 
and the (:attachlist:) markup displays the folder name (0 bytes) with a 
proper link, which Apache refuses to serve me, probably because directory 
indexing is not enabled. .....   (author pauses again to try something)  ....

I enabled directory indexing on wiki/uploads/ and it works beautifully. 
When you click on the folder link in PmWiki, Apache provides a directory of 
the uploads/group/ folder. Clicking on the "parent directory" links takes 
you back up the tree until you hit  the wiki/ folder, at which point Apache 
serves up Main/HomePage, which is the default for that directory. This is 
excellent! Please excuse the rambling. I hope someone else can make use of 
this.


Neil

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