Hello, thank you for all your feedback :) I'm currently about to move. Therefore I think that it may take some time till I will be able to bring in your ideas and publish the next release. You will hear from me soon again ;)
Best regards, Robert Am 09.09.2011 um 01:59 schrieb Chris Knadle: > On Thursday, August 11, 2011 08:15:24 PM, Robert Strobl wrote: >> Hi, I implemented your feedback. The updated version >> now concerns PmWiki's current upstream stable release 2.2.29. >> >> Please find the package files at: http://share.gloriabyte.de/pmwiki/ >> >> Best regards, >> Robert > > Greetings, Robert. > > I'd like to touch base with you concerning your Pmwiki package, and I have a > couple of suggestions. I've been running PmWiki for at least 5 years or so > and have been wishing for a Pmwiki package in Debian, so I'm glad to see > another effort towards getting it into Debian, so your work towards this is > appreciated. > > Right now it appears as though you're changing the group ownership of most of > the pmwiki related files to being owned and writable by www-data. I have a > suggestion whereby neither of these is necessary; PmWiki includes the ability > to be set up as a WikiFarm[1] whereby the same installation can be used for > setting up any number of wikis. Using this method, the web server does not > need to be able to write to any of the pmwiki files at all, since the wiki > location where web pages will be stored will differ from the pmwiki > installation, so they could be owned by root:root and would only need to be > readable by the www-data user. > > This would involve adding one file, local/farmconfig.php, which would act as > the "default" config.php that wikis would use, until overridden by another > local/config.php file in the actual wiki page storage location. [You could > theoretically have debconf prompt the user for setting a default password to > use in the farmconfig.php file if you wanted to, but I'm not sure it's > required.] > > [1] http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WikiFarms > > One thing I note in my setup is that I have not set the $FarmPubDirUrl > variable at all, which seems to be suggested in the page above under the > "Create the home wiki" section, so I don't think that's necessary. I believe > this is done to allow using the original PmWiki location as a wiki, and all > the other wikis as a "wikifarm", but what I've done is simply to set up every > wiki as a "wikifarm" and leave the original PmWiki location unwritable by the > web server. :-) That works fine. > > Adding a new wiki as a WikiFarm would need to be explained in a README, or > could possibly be scripted, but might need to be run as root if you want to > have the "local" wiki.d directory group owned and writable by www-data. I'm > willing to help document that and help write the script and man page, along > with example setup files, if you wish. > > Just let me know what I can help you with. > Thanks. > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5b2d3558-69ef-4d87-814b-b7f0c0eec...@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de
