[pmwiki-users] Template for Wikis in a WikiFarm

[H. Fox]

On 11/13/06, Sandy <sandy at onebit.ca> wrote:
> Paul E. Bloch wrote:
> > I have a WikiFarm so that any of our students and faculty can have a
> > wiki in their public_html directory.  It works well.  The one
> > refinement I would like to have is when a Wiki does its initial setup
> > and creates the wiki.d/ directory, I'd like to have it also create a
> > standard set of directories and files.  Certainly a local/ directory
> > containing either a config.php or sample-config.php.  I might also
> > want to have it create a cookbook/ and pub/ directory. This could
> > probably just be done by copying a template set of directories or
> > unpacking a tar archive.  The goal would be to give more support to
> > individual administrator who might want to customize their Wikis.
> >
> > Is there any support for this?  Perhaps in a cookbook recipe that I
> > missed?  Or do I need to write my own cookbook recipe to accomplish
> > this?
> >
> > Paul Bloch
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Looks like no one has answered this yet. Have you found a solution?
> Sorry I can't help myself.

It's probaly not a good idea to let PmWiki create those directories.
The directories and files would be writable by the server as a side
effect of being created by the server, and that would expose security
risk.

Hagan