Re: [Sandweb-users] Using an already existing Working Directory

[Robert H. <ro...@ro...>]

There has been *some* work to allow using Unix users instead of
SandWeb users (by having Apache use "sudo"), but it's not complete.

If you change the sandweb.cfg so this line :

users_dir="/usr/share/sandweb/users"

says instead :

users_dir="/home"

and allow the Apache user to read/write /home/royalbunker, then it
will work. It's very insecure though, and I don't recommend it :)

Also, SandWeb does the directory structure like this :

user_dir/repository/module

So, below it would be something more like :

royalbunker/localhost/www

instead of just royalbunker/www

This is to allow SandWeb users to check out more than modules in
different repos that have the same name (it's conceivable to have a
"www" module or "src" module where I work, and one for personal use
for example for my personal website).

Since SandWeb (by design) does not let the user get in and move
directories around directly like you're used to from the command
line, we sacrifice some flexibility to make the system more
user-friendly.

Anyway, that's my excuse. Getting the "sudo" stuff working again
might work for you, I started implementing that for a specific
project where I worked but that company isn't around anymore, and
so I haven't had much incentive to work on it. If you are interested
in working on it, I can help (SandWeb is all OO-Perl).



--
Rob

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:05:04PM +0100, Bodo wrote:
> That is the point: I do not want to work in SansWeb's User Home 
> Directory, i would like sandweb to point to our web-directory 
> (/home/royalbunker/www) that is already under CVS-Control.
> 
> Bodo
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Helmer schrieb:
> 
> >It should work, as long as you copy the directory to the SandWeb user's
> >home directory and set the permissions correctly (should be owned by
> >the user that runs the Web server).
> >
> >I would recommend doing a fresh checkout, just because it is easier
> >for you to find help, since you start off in a known state that other
> >people are familiar with.
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Rob
> >
> >
> >On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:17:13PM +0100, Bodo wrote:
> >
> >>Another Question: I would like Sandweb to work on an already existing 
> >>and checked out working directory on my server. How can I do that?
> >>
> >>Bodo
> >>
> >>
> >>
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