Re: wikifarm

On 30 Mar 2005, at 12:10, Jamie Bliss wrote:

> It's been mentioned that if you hack the vars in LocalSettings.php so
> that the includes, maintenance, and languages directories are one
> place (eg, a global location), but extensions, images, and skins are
> someplace else (a user-specific location), you can change the
> variables so it works. (I should try it just to see how it works.)

That sounds like a lot of work! Here's how I do it. Feel free to leave 
my .signature on. I got into the habit of putting at least one colon in 
front back in the 80's, when I was pretty active in a shell script 
mailing list... ;-)
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#!/bin/bash
##
# Link the wiki files into another directory for use as a copy.
#
# $1: where to put the wiki
#
# Where the originals are
basedir=/Library/WebServer/include/wiki

# Should not need to change anything below this line.
#
# Where the target website is
#
if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
        echo $0 error, $1 does not exist; exit 999;
fi

#
# Resolve relative name, if needed.
#
stardir="$PWD"
cd "$1"
targetdir="$PWD"
cd "$startdir"

#
# Setup the base wiki directory.
#
umask=027
[ -d "$targetdir/wiki" ] || mkdir "$targetdir/wiki"
chgrp www "$targetdir/wiki"
targetdir="$targetdir/wiki"

#
# Hard-link files in $1 directory to $2 directory, both of which exist,
# recursively doing the same in any subdirs found.
# Paths must be absolute.
#
depth=-1
function linkall() {
        echo
        ((depth=$depth+1))
        for (( i=$depth; $i > 0; i=$i-1 )) ; do
                echo -n '    ';
        done
        echo -n "linking $1: "
        local here="$PWD"
        cd "$1"
        local f
        for f in *
        do
                if [ -d "$f" ]; then
                        mkdir "$2/$f"; chgrp www "$2/$f"; linkall 
"$1/$f" "$2/$f" ;
                else
                        echo -n '.';
                        ln "$1/$f" "$2/$f";
                fi
        done
        cd "$here"
        echo -n '/'
        ((depth=$depth-1))
}

linkall "$basedir" "$targetdir"
echo

#
# Explicitly handle exceptions.
#
chmod 770 "$targetdir/images"
chmod 770 "$targetdir/config"
rm "$targetdir/LocalSettings.php"

echo
echo "Now go to http://hostname/wiki/config and set up the 
configuration"
echo "REMEMBER remove or write protect the config directory afterward!"
echo

:::: If busses stop at a bus station, and trains stop at a train 
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