Re: [Moin-user] Diagnose and fix performance problems?

2012-05-03 Thread Christopher MacMinn
>> > > Did you use apache/mod-wsgi or cgi? cgi is slow. >> > >> > Our servers do not offer mod_wsgi, so I think we're currently using >> > some sort of WSGI<--> Fast CGI wrapper. Could this be a major cause of >> > the problems? >> >> Well, I can't tell much about the layers below moin (esp. not fo

Re: [Moin-user] Diagnose and fix performance problems?

2012-05-03 Thread Christopher MacMinn
>> > Did you use apache/mod-wsgi or cgi? cgi is slow. >> >> Our servers do not offer mod_wsgi, so I think we're currently using >> some sort of WSGI<--> Fast CGI wrapper. Could this be a major cause of >> the problems? > > Well, I can't tell much about the layers below moin (esp. not for > software

Re: [Moin-user] Diagnose and fix performance problems?

2012-05-02 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hi Thomas - Thanks for your reply! >> I used MoinMoin to build a website for my former research group at MIT > > Nicely themed moin 1.9.4. :) Thanks! Our goal was for it to function like a wiki for logged-in users, but to look like a normal webpage to everyone else. >> As it stands, the website

[Moin-user] Diagnose and fix performance problems?

2012-05-02 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hello MoinMoin - I used MoinMoin to build a website for my former research group at MIT, and it has worked well for them so far (http://juanesgroup.mit.edu). The servers are internal to MIT and we have limited control over them. As it stands, the website has some performance problems -- sometimes

Re: [Moin-user] Embed a video?

2010-10-12 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Thanks! Although I must say, I didn't have much luck with transclusion. Maybe it was just my video file, but the embedded video was the wrong size and did not playback correctly in Firefox or Safari. I ended up using the YouTube approach, which worked like a charm (although I would have preferre

[Moin-user] Embed a video?

2010-10-02 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hi everyone - I would like to embed movies on my wiki, and I couldn't find any information in the help pages -- what are the options, if any? Thanks! Best, Chris -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual applian

Re: [Moin-user] SCRIPT_NAME environment variable

2010-01-23 Thread Christopher MacMinn
I am also interested in this, though I don't use Lighttpd. I created a feature request about a week ago -- http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/HideScriptName. An option similar to the old "properties = {'script name':'/'}" in the cgi/fcgi file would be much preferred to messing around with underlyin

[Moin-user] moinmoin 1.9 authentication problem?

2010-01-12 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hi everyone - I just updated a wiki running moinmoin 1.8.2 to 1.9.0, and I seem to be having an authentication problem. I can log in to my account as usual, but I am logged out as soon as I move to a different page, even when just clicking the "edit" link. Any idea what could be causing this? T

Re: [Moin-user] function editbarItems does not respect config

2010-01-10 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Never mind on this one -- apparently it does work, I just needed to clear my cache. Sorry for the spam! Best, Chris On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Christopher MacMinn wrote: > Hi again - > > The function editbarItems(self, page) in ThemeBase supposedly checks > the variable e

[Moin-user] function editbarItems does not respect config

2010-01-10 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hi again - The function editbarItems(self, page) in ThemeBase supposedly checks the variable edit_bar from the config file when generating the list of links that will appear in the editbar, but this appears not to work. Perhaps I am doing something wrong, but this looks like a bug? The line from

[Moin-user] Embedding an iframe

2010-01-10 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hi everyone - I am using MoinMoin to run a non-wiki website, and I would like to include Google calendars and forms on some pages via . What is the best (recommended) method for doing this? Is there any option other than installing an html parser? (I realize this comes with some security concer

Re: [Moin-user] Advice on page structure

2009-04-05 Thread Christopher MacMinn
> > I'm trying to create a page that includes a list of people, with each > > entry containing a paragraph of text and a right-aligned photo (see, > > e.g., here: http://almlab.mit.edu/ALM/Lab_Members/Lab_Members.html). > > yes with the moinmoin engine this is possible, but the moinmoin wiki > syn

Re: [Moin-user] Advice on page structure

2009-04-05 Thread Christopher MacMinn
This is layout is certainly along the lines of what I had in mind, but I'm trying to avoid tables. Thanks, though. :) - C On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Gnarlodious wrote: > Something like this? > http://EliAshbyHealingArts.com/Staff > > -- Gnarlie > > On 4/5/09, Chr

[Moin-user] Nesting wiki syntax and delimiters

2009-04-05 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hi again, everyone - This is a long one, so sorry about that. I'm having a few problems with basic wiki syntax, all loosely related to slightly more advanced use. Thoughts, opinions, corrections, etc. are all welcome. First: end-of-line and blank lines. The wiki parser appears to insert mult

[Moin-user] Advice on page structure

2009-04-05 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hi everyone - I'm trying to create a page that includes a list of people, with each entry containing a paragraph of text and a right-aligned photo (see, e.g., here: http://almlab.mit.edu/ALM/Lab_Members/Lab_Members.html). I can't figure out how to do this with MoinMoin syntax... I realize that the

Re: [Moin-user] disabling self-registration

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher MacMinn
> > > Is there an easy way to set up moinmoin so that new users have to email > > me to get a login rather than register themselves? > > You can do it by acls > > acl_rights_before = u"YourName:read,write,admin,delete,revert" > acl_rights_default = u"UserGroup:read,write All:read" > > and on the pa

Re: [Moin-user] ACLs and user homepages

2009-02-25 Thread Christopher MacMinn
> > > I am using MoinMoin to run a non-wiki website. My config ACL setup is: > > > > acl_rights_default = u'Administrators:read,write,delete,revert,admin > > All:read' > > acl_rights_before = u'Administrators:read,write,delete,revert,admin' > > > > That sounds wrong because the page name has to e

[Moin-user] ACLs and user homepages

2009-02-25 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hi folks - I am using MoinMoin to run a non-wiki website. My config ACL setup is: acl_rights_default = u'Administrators:read,write,delete,revert,admin All:read' acl_rights_before = u'Administrators:read,write,delete,revert,admin' where "Administrators" is of course one or more users who should

Re: [Moin-user] Different style for editing

2009-02-24 Thread Christopher MacMinn
> > > I'm wondering if it is possible to have a slightly different style when > > editing content. I would like to have a general style that is narrow, > > so it doesn't take all the screen width. Long p aragraphs don't > look well in > > wide layout (especially on wide display) and are diffi

Re: [Moin-user] User hompages & Page titles

2009-02-19 Thread Christopher MacMinn
> > > What you can do is to configure something different, that does > > not mention the page name at all. > > > What exactly do you mean? Are you suggesting that I change the code > > that generates page titles? If so, where do I find it? > > Hmm, i thought we have a config varia

Re: [Moin-user] Disable automatic CamelCase linking?

2009-02-19 Thread Christopher MacMinn
> > > That is only acceptable if such parser were maintained as part > > of the official moin distribution, and kept up-to-date with the > > the rest of the features of a classical parser. > > Yes, that would be better. > > It would also be better if we had more developers. :) > > > I had enough ba

Re: [Moin-user] remove 'Settings' links from MoinMoin

2009-02-19 Thread Christopher MacMinn
> > > I would suggest editing the CSS for your theme and use the > > 'visibility' or 'display' style (depending on which works > > best for you) to remove it. I've used that to > > successfully remove all kinds of elements I didn't want > > visible. > > could you give me the specifics of what i wo

[Moin-user] Disable automatic CamelCase linking?

2009-02-15 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hi - I was wondering if there is a config option to disable automatic link generation for CamelCase words? As with many aspects of MoinMoin, I've seen some discussion of this (http://moinmo.in/LinkPattern) but no conclusions. (I am aware that this can be escaped on a case-by-case basis using !Cam

Re: [Moin-user] User hompages & Page titles

2009-02-14 Thread Christopher MacMinn
age. > That worked nicely -- thanks! > > > and in the title bar > > > > Christopher MacMinn > > > > > > ... > > AH, that one. Well, this is generated before page rendering has even > begun. I see how that could be a problem. > What y

Re: [Moin-user] User hompages & Page titles

2009-02-13 Thread Christopher MacMinn
like each page to have a "short name" and a "long name", > > i.e.: my username is "cmac", but my full name is "Christopher > > MacMinn" -- I would like my user homepage to live at /People/cmac, but > > to say "Christopher MacMinn"

Re: [Moin-user] Linking to an attachment with the 'get' method in stead of 'view'

2009-02-13 Thread Christopher MacMinn
> > > I have a page with an avi attachment. if I use [[attachment:movie.avi]], > it gets translated into action=AttachFile&do=view&target=movie.avi and the > attachment page gets called. Users then need to click "download" to get the > file since few browsers are configured to run embedded avis. Is

[Moin-user] User hompages & Page titles

2009-02-13 Thread Christopher MacMinn
name" and a "long name", i.e.: my username is "cmac", but my full name is "Christopher MacMinn" -- I would like my user homepage to live at /People/cmac, but to say "Christopher MacMinn" at the top and in the title bar (not "cmac", whic

Re: [Moin-user] Upgrade?

2009-02-12 Thread Christopher MacMinn
> > > I just upgraded my wiki from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2 by following the instructions > in the > docs/README.migration file... > > > ... it was painless and nothing broke, but how can I tell if anything > actually happened? > Is there anything else I need to do? > Two ways: > > Look at the "meta" fi

[Moin-user] Upgrade?

2009-02-12 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hey folks - I just upgraded my wiki from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2 by following the instructions in the docs/README.migration file, meaning I basically did these things: 1. back up wiki 2. download 1.8.2 3. python setup.py build 4. moin --config-dir=/path/to/config_dir --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/migrati

Re: [Moin-user] Changing navibar behavior

2009-02-11 Thread Christopher MacMinn
> > >>> I'm using MoinMoin to run a non-wiki website, and I would like to > >>> customize the behavior of the navibar. In particular, I would like for > >>> the current page NOT to be added to the navibar if it is not already > >>> in the navibar. I am comfortable (ish) with python, html, css, et

Re: [Moin-user] Changing navibar behavior

2009-02-11 Thread Christopher MacMinn
I grabbed the sidebar function definition from gugiel.py, but I don't understand where the sidebar comes from -- do I need to create my own HTML file named sidebar.html and stick it somewhere? - Chris On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Radomir Dopieralski wrote: > Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:08:15PM

[Moin-user] Changing navibar behavior

2009-02-11 Thread Christopher MacMinn
Hi folks - I'm using MoinMoin to run a non-wiki website, and I would like to customize the behavior of the navibar. In particular, I would like for the current page NOT to be added to the navibar if it is not already in the navibar. I am comfortable (ish) with python, html, css, etc., but I'm no