[pmwiki-users] Farms and security

2008-06-05 Thread Alexander Dietrich
Hello, I recently turned my PmWiki installation into a farm, and came across the comment dealing with PHP session cookie names for preventing accidental privilege elevation. This got me thinking: if the only thing right now stopping a user from getting incorrect privileges on another field,

[pmwiki-users] Farms: per-wiki config

2008-05-11 Thread Peter Melodye Bowers
Is it possible for skins and other per-wiki configs to be managed (ie changed) by each wiki's individual admin via a passworded web interface? It's still more a proof-of-concept and needs more thought/design and lots more testing, but check out this new recipe:

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms: per-wiki config

2008-05-10 Thread Hans
Friday, May 9, 2008, 10:28:15 AM, Peter Flynn wrote: Is it possible for skins and other per-wiki configs to be managed (ie changed) by each wiki's individual admin via a passworded web interface? In generally PmWiki needs to be customised via settings in config.php or other local config

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms: per-wiki config

2008-05-10 Thread Henrik Bechmann
I provide wiki farm administrators an ftp account (localized to their individual directory trees), and encourage them to use FileZilla to transfer files (there's also an option to link to a desktop text editor), or for more extensive changes they can use Notepad++ which has direct read/save

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms

2007-09-07 Thread Sandy
Mark Trumpold wrote: Hi All If I make a farmconfig I place that in the wiki 1 That will be the home wiki. I leave the local config there right? Thanks M The config file in the home directory is for the home (first) wiki. You will need a separate config file for each of the fields

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms

2007-09-02 Thread Mark Trumpold
Hi All I am getting this error Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '/' in /home/.../.../Test/index.php on line 1 I U\L a new clean fresh copy of pmwiki into a Test Directory. I made a index. Php file that is as follows ?php include(/home/.../.../Test/index.php);? I don't know why I am

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms

2007-09-02 Thread Mark Trumpold
Hi All If I make a farmconfig I place that in the wiki 1 That will be the home wiki. I leave the local config there right? Thanks M On 22/8/07 5:53 PM, Mike Shanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Trumpold wrote: Hi All I have tried reading the instructions on farms and I still seem

[pmwiki-users] Farms

2007-08-22 Thread Mark Trumpold
Hi All I have tried reading the instructions on farms and I still seem to be having trouble. Could someone help, please ... I have a wiki (Wiki 1) running that I am very happy with. I want to make my other existing and new wikis to use the Wiki 1 get all the same scripts, recipes, guiedit

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms

2007-04-12 Thread Mark Trumpold
So would I no have a pmwiki.php file in my other wikis but only in the wikifarm engine? On 12/4/07 1:29 PM, DaveG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:54:49 +0200, Mark Trumpold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again After a little more reading I still have questions;-) Do I

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms

2007-04-12 Thread Ben Wilson
Not index.html, as much as index.php. I advocate the index.php because many web servers expect to map to an index.* when given a clean URL (e.g. http://www.example.org to http://example.org/index.html). Now that I have a web server of my own, I put PmWiki in /usr/local/pmwiki and then: ln -sf

[pmwiki-users] Farms

2007-04-11 Thread Mark Trumpold
Hi all Just a quick question. I am running a bunch of wikis under my domain on one server and I am getting tired of making a change to one and the the rest. I understand farms help with this. Just wanted to know how easy is it really What should I look out for Any tips for a successful

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms

2007-04-11 Thread DaveG
I just went through this. Setting up a farm is very easy. Understanding the details behind various configuration options takes a while. The most useful info for me was http://pmwiki.com/wiki/Cookbook/WikiFarmAlternative. ~ ~ Dave On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:52:43 +0200, Mark Trumpold [EMAIL

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms

2007-04-11 Thread Mark Trumpold
Ah I was wondering why you sent me there LOL On 11/4/07 2:58 PM, DaveG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I meant to use this link: http://pmwiki.com/wiki/Cookbook/FarmSetupByExample. The other link is more useful *after* doing the SetupByExample link, as it provide a long term maintainable

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms question (open_basedir restriction)

2007-02-12 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:33:15PM +0100, Tom Lederer wrote: Am 08.02.2007 um 16:54 schrieb Patrick R. Michaud: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:46:15AM +0100, Tom Lederer wrote: Hi, after following the instructions on http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/ PmWiki/WikiFarms, i have put a file in the

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms question (open_basedir restriction)

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Lederer
Am 12.02.2007 um 19:57 schrieb Patrick R. Michaud: [[SNIP]] Taking the warning at face value, it's saying that the pmwiki software isn't in the path given by PHP's open_basedir configuration variable. In particular, open_basedir seems to be set to

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms question (open_basedir restriction)

2007-02-10 Thread Tom Lederer
Uhm... just a ping. Anyone got an idea? Best Regards, Tom Am 08.02.2007 um 18:33 schrieb Tom Lederer: Am 08.02.2007 um 16:54 schrieb Patrick R. Michaud: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:46:15AM +0100, Tom Lederer wrote: Hi, after following the instructions on http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farms question (open_basedir restriction)

2007-02-08 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:46:15AM +0100, Tom Lederer wrote: Hi, after following the instructions on http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/ WikiFarms, i have put a file in the new directory for the new field: ?php include('../../../httpdocs/pmwiki/pmwiki.php'); Which is the correct path

[pmwiki-users] Farms question (open_basedir restriction)

2007-02-07 Thread Tom Lederer
Hi, after following the instructions on http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/ WikiFarms, i have put a file in the new directory for the new field: ?php include('../../../httpdocs/pmwiki/pmwiki.php'); Which is the correct path (also tried absolute path with same effect). Then i get in the