Hi Robert, I will review, however what have been your exact issues when installing with a space in the path name? As far as I can remember the only issue might be uploading of documents.
What else did you find out? Sebastian 2012/7/15 Robert Chalmers <[email protected]> > 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.**** > > ** ** > > -- Sebastian Wagner https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock http://www.openmeetings.de http://www.webbase-design.de http://www.wagner-sebastian.com [email protected]
