[pmwiki-users] working directory

[H. Fox]

On 2/22/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:59:11AM -0700, H. Fox wrote:
> > On 2/21/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > > On another note, Hagan Fox once remarked that it would be nice to
> > > put all of these writable directories (wiki.d/, uploads/, work.d/)
> > > into a single directory -- something like:
> > > [...]
> >
> > As you might expect, I enthusiastically vote "yes" on this.
>
> Unfortunately, I think I've talked myself out of it for now.
>
> Firstly, after thinking about it I don't think we get to put
> uploads/ into the data/ directory quite so easily.  It really
> makes things much more difficult for CleanUrls and other recipes.
> And -- contrary to what I wrote earlier, it doesn't solve the
> problem of uploads/ subdirs when safe_mode is turned on -- the
> admin still has to manually create upload directories for each
> group.  :-(

Or use site-wide uploads.

> Personally, I think that admins should be backing up the
> cookbook/ and local/ directories as well.

Yes, but less frequently.

Hagan