Re: [Aajguestbook-devel] The Config-File

[Arcadius A. <ah...@sh...>]

Hello Manuel....


> I had a problem with the config file. If I loged in with a different user
on
> my OS the config file is a different directory. This is a problem for me,
> cause I would like to use the GB with 2 two users and I won't to change 2
> config-files every time.
>

Hmmm ... if you login to your System and start the server as user schoetz,
then the "aaJGuestBook.properties" file created by the server will be owned
by user schoetz....
And if later you login and start the server as user Manuel , then the
"aaJGuestBook.properties" file created will be owned by the user Manuel....
and in case we force the server to write the "aaJGuestBook.properties" into
a fixed location, the server will try to overwrite the config file created
by the user schoetz... (and on any decent OS, a "permission denied" error
would occur!!!).... so, you'd need to login as schoetz and change the file
permission so that it can be written by Manuel before it would work....
and again, some people may want to have different config files too....
So, I steel believe that if we force the web server to write the config file
to a fixed location, thus allot of permission troubles would arise....

I'd be very glad if other people( such as Asha, Cheung , etc) could give
their opinion about this problem...


> The easiest way to implement a full flexible guestbook is
> to change the .jsp files. I tested without restarting the server and it
> works. I think it should also work on other servers.

Yes, here you're completely right..... this is an open-source project... so
people can edit any file if they want... the config file is there just for
those not willing to tinker with the source code

Thanks for all the feedbacks...

Regards...

Arcadius.