Re: [Phpwiki-talk] gui configuration of index.php

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

I have been thinking for some time about some sort of InstallScript - see 
my comments at the bottom of 
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/NewUserPreferences

Although I don't think it is that hard to edit index.php manually, I think 
a script would make phpWiki even easier.  It could even try to set up the 
relevant db tables, or report an error (and give instructions) if it could 
not do so.

Security is a big problem however.  The webserver user must have write 
access to index.php (obviously), and experience says that no matter how 
often  or clearly you tell users to change the permissions after install 
(or to remove the install script completely), they often do not do so.

Lawrence


At 09:09 21/02/2002, Carsten Klapp wrote:

>PHPWeather uses an excellent web-based config-file generator. With 
>permission from Martin Geisler of course, I think it could be easily 
>adapted to generate an index.php file for PhpWiki.
>
>There are security issues to generating a config file this way, but they 
>can probably be overcome.
>
>The whole thing is completely self contained in one file. It makes the 
>necessary backups, provides text output for cut and paste when the file 
>couldn't be written, and allows for comments and instructions.
>
>Anyway take a look, it's pretty neat.
>
>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-
>bin/viewcvs.cgi/phpweather/phpweather/configurator.php
>
>Carsten
>
>
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