[pmwiki-users] Why doesn't this installation sequence work?

[H. Fox]

On 3/21/06, H. Fox <haganfox at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 3/21/06, Hans <design at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
> > This info used to be on page
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/FarmSecurity
> > but it has been removed (or moved to somewhere else, where?),
>
> Now it's here:
>
>     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/FarmSecurity-OldVersion
>
> > at this farm spring cleaning. I hope it will resurface again.
> > I am a bit concerned that so much information has been taken out,
> > and I have to look deep into page histories to find previous valuable
> > info.
>
> Other than the information about .htaccess (which I just added), what
> valuable information is missing from the new page?
>
> Farm security breaks down to
>
> 1) Disabling the home wiki.
> 2) Denying access to PmWiki's files.
> 3) Installing outside the document tree (which does both #1 and #2).
>
> and that's about it, except maybe some discussion of a home wiki's
> special status.  The main topics are covered fairly comprehensively in
> the new document.  Did I miss something?

Thinking about it more, "farm" security is only disabling the home
wiki and installing outside the document tree.  #2 is no different for
a farm or stand-alone configuration.

Hagan