Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Security (was: Re: new admin/ directory)

[Steve W. <sw...@wc...>]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> It might be interesting to do a user survey to find out just what environments
> phpwiki is being run in.  What do you and Arno deal with?

Dunno about Arno; I use Red Hat 6.2 at home with two Apache servers:
1. the default Apache+PHP+Postgresl, which RH ships with
2. Apache 1.3.12+PHP4+mSQL2+Postgresql

On wcsb.org: RH 4.2 + mSQL2

At Sourceforge: whatever they have, probably Apache 1.3+MySQL on Debian

I *usually* test on all these evironments though I've never found a
difference in any of them...

> (Confused yet?)

auth gives me headaches :-)

> What's the best output format?  Tar?  Or zip for windows friendliness?
> Or something else I haven't thought of? 

Best: user chooses .zip, .Z, .gz.
Minimum: .zip, since almost everyone can decompress them
Philisophicaly: gz and bz2 :-)

> See ignore_user_abort().  See also register_shutdown_function() which allows
> you to continue executing PHP after the html output stream has been closed.
> (There may be other better ways to do this, but I don't know them.)
> (There's also flush() which flushes the output, allowing you to add to it 
> later.)
> 
> I was thinking of an update count stored in the DBM.  When it exceeds a
> threshold, the DBM gets rebuilt.

Excellent idea. This would be cleaner than using lynx+cron, by far!

sw

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