William, I don't know the answers to your questions -- here's one that I hope Je77 will get to when he gets back. I do know that you can do just as you describe. PBL.cc.gatech.edu and Guzdial.cc.gatech.edu each were set up with WebStar serving the static files, for quite some time. (Now PBL is a Linux box serving via Comanche and Apache, and Guzdial is serving via Microsoft Personal Web Server and still PWS.) But I don't know the details of the admin tool to tell you how to do it. Mark >I've been trying to set up ComSwiki via the admin pages to work with >a web server (WebSTAR). > >The web server is running on port 80 of my main domain. I can >automatically proxy/redirect calls for swiki pages to Comanche, >which is running on port 8888 of another machine behind my firewall >(192.168.X.Y:8888). Port 8888 is not open to the outside world. > >But I realize that I really and truly don't understand the admin >settings for using Comanche with a server, and the more I fiddle >with them, the more often I manage to crash Squeak. (yes, crash it) > >filePath: The admin help file is not clear to me. What path is this >supposed to be -- the file path on the web server machine that is >hosting the files directory, or the one to the current >implementation? If it's the Web server, why is it here at all, since >all the shared files for all swikis can be reached via the URL? Can >I ignore it? Should I leave it blank? Should it be different for >different swikis? > >fileServerPath: I have managed to have this work correctly, by >creating a duplicate of the folder on the main WebSTAR server, and >explicitly entering the URL of that folder in the admin form. That I >understand (I think). But isn't this pair of path and URL redundant? >If I'm not careful, these can point to contradictory files. Why? > >uploadPath: I really don't get this one. I host five pre-existing >swikis, and all of them have extensive swiki and page upload >hierarchies. In the past, since I was simply running an exposed copy >of Comanche, each swiki had a separate uploads file hierarchy inside >its own root. Can I assume that this field is used to direct files >that are being uploaded? If so, how can it possibly work, since >Comanche and the swiki pages are being stored on a completely >different machine from the base WebSTAR server? Should I use an >inter-machine alias on WebSTAR to point to the ComSwiki folder? > >uploadServerPath: Again, isn't this redundant with the uploadPath? >Or is this just the URL of a *duplicate* of the uploads directory >for a wiki? Where should users have permission to upload -- to the >swiki folder, or to the WebSTAR copy of that folder? And then >there's the problem of where the various uploads for the various >swikis (that have already been created and referenced) should be >placed. Should I override this setting in each swiki? > >I find the apparent similarity between settings for uploads and >files extremely misleading, since one copy of /files contains all >appearances, behaviors, and interface elements for all hosted >swikis, while /uploads is specific to every individual swiki. > >I could *really* use some guidance. I've already RTFMed, and I >cannot say it helped much. > >Thanks for your help, >Bill >-- >-------------- >William Tozier >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." > -- Oscar Wilde -------------------------- Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies. Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/ (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html
