Hi George, This has always been a bit of a pain, having to work around the spaces, but I also run other scripted programs, Moodle, Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal and a lot of other scripts, all of which happily live under F:/My Websites/ It's only OM I've had to build and run from C:/ based directories. Or at least the root of a drive anyway, like F:/ I think the only one of the others that gave me problems was Joomla, it needed the PATH variable set to the old naming convention of C:/Program~1/ for something before it would work. I know its not really a major issue so long as one remembers the potential trap is there - it had me stuck for quite a while when I first tried putting OM together on the Windows box. I can imagine there will be others who just quietly give up on it and say nothing. At the least its a trap that could be highlighted in red somewhere maybe? "If you install on Windows you MUST have no directories or filenames with spaces in them."
Cheers Robert ----- On 15/07/2012, at 8:50 PM, "George Kirkham" <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert, > > I don’t know if spaces in directory and file names is a problem with red5 or > with Openmeetings, I guess the developers will comment later. > > Due to the pain they have caused me, I very much I dislike spaces being used > in directory and file names. I recommend to people never to use spaces in > directories and file names, unless absolutely necessary. > > I had to smile when I noticed that Vista and Windows 7 changed “C:\Documents > and Settings” to “C:\Users”, but “C:\Program Files” continues to exist with a > space in the directory name. > > To overcome issues with programs that do not like spaces, I usually create a > folder called “C:\Programs” and put my programs in this directory. > > However this does not answer or address the issue that you raised, so > hopefully someone will be able to give you answer. > > Thanks, > > George Kirkham > > > > From: Robert Chalmers [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 15 July 2012 4:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Can we have fully quoted PATH strings please in the code? > > Fine naming conventions these days determine that spaces are allowed in path > names. On almost every platform. Can we have this in openmeetings too please? > For example - Windows is notorious for path names like "C:\Program > Files\program xxx", or even user created paths like "F:\My Websites" > > If I install OM into a directory like "F:\My Websites\Domain Name\red5" ... > it simply wont work. It breaks on the first "<blank>" between "My" and > "Websites" > > I have enough trouble setting the PATH variable for old-convention software, > that have to have the old 8.3 names, like "C:\Program~1\" name. Ok, there are > a few in my path, but surely this is something that the OM code itself > shouldn't have to worry about. Quoted paths have been around for years now. > Even like "C:\Program%20Files\" do it. > > I really hate having to have every thing hanging off the C:\ (or F:\) > directory. ie; C:\red5. > > It's not only a problem for Windows users, but it's nice to have open names > on Unix too, which I am pretty familiar with as well. > > > It makes for very untidy coding areas. > > > hope we can see some joy on this. >
