Re: [veryquickwiki-users] vqwiki installation path on shared hosting server

[Marcello T. <mte...@us...>]

Hi Kevin,

Il giorno 10/gen/09, alle ore 17:30, Kevin T. ha scritto:

> I would like to run vqwiki on my website. My shared hosting provider  
> supports Tomcat and JSP, so installing vqwiki is, as a general  
> matter, no problem.
>
> However, I have no access to configuration files and the files I  
> upload through vqwiki, because the host provider's control panel  
> application (Plesk) works with Tomcat to select a pre-determined  
> installation path that is not accessible to me through FTP or  
> otherwise. This is annoying because it really prevents me from using  
> vqwiki.
>
> My host provider tells me that this is just the way Plesk and Tomcat  
> interact, but that it would nevertheless be possible for me to  
> somehow influence vqwiki's installation path (allegedly by having it  
> point to an area on the server I can actually control). I doubt that  
> this is true, because it seems to me that it is Plesk/Tomcat that  
> automatically select the path (the only thing I can do is upload the  
> WAR file), not vqwiki. However, I am not sure and hope some of you  
> experts could help me out.

I don't know how Plesk and Tomcat do interact, but provided there are  
some directory where you can write to, you could modify the content of  
the context.xml or web.xml within the WAR file before uploading it and  
set a custom location for you VQWiki configuration properties file.

<env-entry>
  <description>VQWiki propertiesFile</description>
  <env-entry-name>propertiesFile</env-entry-name>
  <env-entry-value>/home/kevin/vqwiki.properties</env-entry-value>
  <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
</env-entry>

See: http://www.vqwiki.org/docs/vqwiki-book.html#d0e2461

By default the location of the vqwiki file based storage is in a  
"wiki" dir inside your home directory which may be unsuitable for you  
settings, but you can change it from the admin page at startup.

Hope this helps. Let me know if it's ok, so we can add more specific  
info for shared hosting to the VQWiki docs!

--m