[pmwiki-users] Re: host-independent URLs for configurations

chr at home.se chr at home.se
Tue Mar 15 16:19:20 CST 2005


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Bronwyn Boltwood wrote:

> Problem: several configuration things want URLs, such as farmmap.txt
> and config.php.  Well, on the webserver they start with
> "http://arndis.godsong.org", and on my machine they start with
> "http://localhost".  Changing them back and forth is a nuisance.  Is
> there something I can do to tell these to use the base URL plus
> whatever, and to get the base URL from the server?  What file would I
> put that information in?

I think it'd be nice if we could use variables in e.g. localmap.txt.

I also think ThisSite needs some resurrection, for instance through 
{$ThisSite}. 

> Also, I bet that someone's already developed some happy sync software
> for mirroring like this (hopefully selective, so that I won't eat
> webserver space with non-served graphics source files etc.),

Try
* Unison file synchronizer
* rsync

Actually, what you want is unison... it's cross-platform and even comes 
with a GUI...

/Christian

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