Re: [pmwiki-users] Redirect to URL (not existing Wiki Page) - possible?

2007-01-12 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-01-12 Patrick R. Michaud is rumoured to have said: We could also come up with a mechanism to hold the external redirects in a separate editable Site.Redirects page -- something like: ABC.Amazonhttp://www.amazon.com/ ABC.Example http://www.example.com/ XYZ.PmWiki

Re: [pmwiki-users] Link to description of PmWiki on Wikimatrix.org?

2007-01-12 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I see just the data on PmWiki at wikimatrix.org? (I only manage to get a comparison) /Christian http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/PmWiki -- Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ ___ pmwiki-users mailing

Re: [pmwiki-users] Securing images

2007-01-12 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Petko's excellent TumbList recipe [1] works nice. Now I'm stuck with a basic, though relevant issue: security. All the images are stored, either by ftp or the upload action, into a /listing/uploads/ directory which is external to the pmwiki install.[2][3]

Re: [pmwiki-users] Securing images

2007-01-12 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-01-12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumoured to have said: I tried and set a quick live example, where: http://www.kirpi.it/listing/ is the general directory open to anyone http://www.kirpi.it/listing/friends/ is the friends folder (id=kirpi pass=kirpi) http://www.kirpi.it/listing/personal is

[pmwiki-users] is there a {$ServerUrl} page variable????

2007-01-19 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
I am in the midst of trying to seamlessly migrate a bunch of wikis from one server to another. I have set up the new server to listen on port 81 instead of 80 (the default). So the URLs for the new server look like this: http://neil.eton.ca:81/wiki/index.php/Main/HomePage I need to be able to

Re: [pmwiki-users] Add permission for a user, without losing others

2007-01-24 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:07:52PM -0500, Sandy wrote: Still playing. I want to give id:Tom access to a page (or group) using action=attr. I thought I could just type +id:Tom , but that didn't work. Is there a way I can add him, without retyping all the other

Re: [pmwiki-users] Slender: prebundled wikis

2007-01-25 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-01-25 Sandy is rumoured to have said: http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ListOfBundles-Candidates An attempt at a free-form survey. May be worth changing the format as patterns develop. Cheers! Sandy Great start! I am adding some of mine. -- Neil Herber Corporate info at

[pmwiki-users] attachlist question and/or feature request

2007-01-26 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
I use (:attachlist:) to list all the files in an upload directory. Many of my directories contain sub-directories, so the structure looks like: --- file-1 --- file-2 --- subdir |--- file-a |--- file-b Attachlist shows the subdir with a link (yay!) but it shows it as a 0 byte file

Re: [pmwiki-users] New Hierarchical Groups Recipe...

2007-01-31 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Hans wrote: Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 3:08:27 PM, The wrote: A quick announcement that I just released the Hierarchical Groups recipe I've been working on. See: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Hg Could that be please be put on a page named Cookbook.HierarchicalGroups instead

Re: [pmwiki-users] New Hierarchical Groups Recipe...

2007-01-31 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
The Editor wrote: On 1/31/07, Neil Herber (nospam) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-01-31 The Editor is rumoured to have said: For more info and a demo, visit http://www.fast.st/hgtest/index.php. *** Looks very interesting, but under Firefox 2.0 on Windoze XP Pro the supposed edit

Re: [pmwiki-users] New Hierarchical Groups Recipe...

2007-02-01 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-02-01 The Editor is rumoured to have said: The recipe page also makes the claim: This recipe adds hierarchical groups functionality to your website. The following items are included: group headers, group footers, group sidebars, group attributes, config files,

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
What about this off-the-wall idea? working.d/ # top-level writable directory wiki.d/ # page file storage temp.d/ # temporary/work files -- Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ ___ pmwiki-users

Re: [pmwiki-users] possible bug in notify.php - bug squashed!

2007-02-03 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: Well, the odd thing is that notify doesn't talk directly to the mail server. The notify.php script uses PHP's mail() function to send mail, and the From: header is passed as an additional_headers parameter to mail(). According to the PHP docs [1], on Windows

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki forum...

2007-03-16 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-16 Patrick R. Michaud is rumoured to have said: And personally, I've never found a forum that actually made it significantly easier to find answers to my questions than mailing list archives do. Ditto. I find that forums are great for conversations but lousy for conclusions. The

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki forum...

2007-03-18 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
The Editor wrote: Other than Pm's fair attempt at an answer, and his welcome suggestions for improving the cookbook, most of the responses to my post were pretty inane. No offensce, but really... I would not have taken any offense and probably not have responded to this (since others have

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki forum...

2007-03-19 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-19 The Editor is rumoured to have said: Sorry about being kind of ignorant of news readers. But can someone suggest a good newsreader, and how exactly to get it set up. I think that's probably why some are satisfied with the mailing list. Otherwise, the archives are near to

Re: [pmwiki-users] Fwd: PmWiki forum...

2007-03-20 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-19 Francis Casson is rumoured to have said: I previously suggested a mailing list ethic (although the thread got diverted somewhat from that, which was the original point.) With this ethic - if you get something out of this list you put something back into the PmWiki

Re: [pmwiki-users] Fwd: PmWiki forum...

2007-03-20 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-20 the Other michael is rumoured to have said: Neil, I've added that to the WikiRefactoring page as a recommended action. I added a usage suggestion. I've got a question posed under http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WikiRefactoring#Location I feel somewhat inhibited editing the

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)

2007-03-26 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-26 Kathryn Andersen is rumoured to have said: For example, there's a world of difference between mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/openwin/lib/X11/config -DHasGcc2=YES and mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak imake -DUseInstalled

Re: [pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0

2007-03-26 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: In looking at switching away from the leading spaces preformat rule on pmwiki.org, I notice several non-documentation pages that somewhat rely on the leading space rule to display the page properly: Site.ApprovedUrls Site.AuthUser Site.Blocklist

[pmwiki-users] BlockStyles page problem

2007-03-26 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
The BlockStyles page appears to be clobbered: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/BlockStyles?action=diff Did it ever exist? There are pages that refer to it. -- Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ ___ pmwiki-users mailing list

Re: [pmwiki-users] Adding pages in category to page template

2007-03-29 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumoured to have said: Is there a way to access page lists from other parts of the pages html, rather than just within the wiki itself? Pagelists work in the group header. For example: Pages in this group: (:pagelist fmt=#simple

Re: [pmwiki-users] Drafts, moderated wikis, and PITS 00755

2007-03-30 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-30 Scott Connard is rumoured to have said: 2. Save and Edit is ambiguous and needs to be clarified. 3. In PITS 00755, Pm's proposal ... modified to clarify labels suggests a single Save label with different meanings for an original document vs a draft document. I think that

Re: [pmwiki-users] Navigation structure problems

2007-03-30 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-30 Sergio Lopes is rumoured to have said: * [[Projects/School]] ** [[School/A0203 | 2002-2003]] ** [[School/A0304 | 2003-2004]] ** [[School/A0405 | 2004-2005]] ** [[School/A0506 | 2005-2006]] ** [[School/A0607 | 2006-2007]] *** [[A0607/GCVPN | Grid Computing over VPN]] *

Re: [pmwiki-users] Drafts, moderated wikis, and PITS 00755

2007-03-30 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-30 Patrick R. Michaud is rumoured to have said: So, I'm currently looking at: When editing original page: - save page to original location [Publish] - save page as draft [Save draft] - save and keep editing [Save draft and edit] When

Re: [pmwiki-users] Navigation structure problems

2007-03-31 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-31 Sergio Lopes is rumoured to have said: Hi, I'm really trying what it looks like :) I don't understand the group and page relation between the pages I create. I'll have to take a very good look at the documentation. I had some problems with page naming before, some pages ended

Re: [pmwiki-users] how to hide sidebar when login form is displayed?

2007-03-31 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-31 SteP is rumoured to have said: How can I hide the left sitebar when the login form is being displayed? One way is to set the read password on the Sidebar to id:*. Then it won't show until the user is logged in. -- Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/

[pmwiki-users] OT: Re: what do you call a person who speaks only one language?

2007-03-31 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-31 the Other michael is rumoured to have said: (and mono-lingual, again?) If you are going to use the Latin prefix for bilingual, then the one-language speaker should be unilingual. (These are the terms in general use in Canada.) Mono is a Greek prefix so I suppose you could say

Re: [pmwiki-users] Drafts, moderated wikis, and PITS 00755

2007-03-31 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-31 Patrick R. Michaud is rumoured to have said: Please feel free to experiment with the new draft implementation and provide comments. This will likely appear in the next beta release. Patrick Very nicely done. It worked exactly the way I expected and the button labels are

[pmwiki-users] open-source advantages (was: Re: UTF-8 case insensitive index)

2007-04-06 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-06 Patrick R. Michaud is rumoured to have said: That's exactly what I dislike in most opensource projects. Slow development, missing features and unfixed bugs is ok for a hobby project though far from adequate for anything productive. I didn't realize that closed-source

Re: [pmwiki-users] extra guidelines for recipe publishing

2007-04-10 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-10 H. Fox is rumoured to have said: Personally I wouldn't unpack anything into the root of my PmWiki installation anyway... at the very least not without unpacking it in a temporary directory first. As a plain old Windoze user, I always unpack into a dummy directory and then

Re: [pmwiki-users] Adding something like '?action=version'? (Was:Version of Pmwiki)

2007-04-12 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-12 SMETS Stephane BKS-IT is rumoured to have said: Thinking about a page with the info : it is correct to think that many people will search localy so if the info is in the doc in a Version page (maybe Site.version?) Despite the fact that all of my wikis expose the version number

Re: [pmwiki-users] recent changes and deleted pages

2007-04-12 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-12 Patrick R. Michaud is rumoured to have said: $EnableOmitDeletedPagesFromRecentChanges which seems awfully long for a configuration variable. Thankfully it's not likely to be used very often. :-) :-) (Suggestions for better names welcome!) $ForgetDeletedPages

Re: [pmwiki-users] PHP/Linux/Hotmail: broken membership / mail() configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-18 J. Meijer is rumoured to have said: The system is configured to send mail. And the sending part works. It's just that gmail accepts them and hotmail does *not*. It throws 'm away, probably because of eagerly classifying it as spam. Note that it doesn't even appear as junkmail.

Re: [pmwiki-users] PHP/Linux/Hotmail: broken membership / mail() configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-18 J. Meijer is rumoured to have said: That's the fun part: *no* rejects! Barring positive answers to the above questions, can you send me a direct email from the same engine so that I can look at the headers it generates? Not promising any solution, but I have an

Re: [pmwiki-users] PHP/Linux/Hotmail: broken membership / mail() configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-18 J. Meijer is rumoured to have said: Neil, I did notice a sensitivity to the body-text when testing. So your conclusion may be right: this may be spam. Yet my official Welcome message also doesn't get through. And it is really well-behaved :) I'm passing the info along and I'll

Re: [pmwiki-users] Farm Setup Questions

2007-04-19 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
The Editor wrote: I'm trying to simplify my installation and had a couple farm questions... 1) If I'm want to keep all my recipes in the central home cookbook rather than multiple copies in each field, what settings do I need for that? 2) Similarly, if I only want to upgrade the wikilib.d

Re: [pmwiki-users] FW: Opinion Polling - fun with forms

2007-04-20 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-20 Hans is rumoured to have said: The form creates a list of voters. So it will show double votes. The template can be set up to show the choice made, or not (for a more secret poll) Hans I was able to vote (as Grumpy) and my vote appeared on the page, but the thermometers did

Re: [pmwiki-users] Creating default group pages?

2007-04-24 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-24 Roman is rumoured to have said: Hans, would it be difficult to modify AutoGroupPages recipe to create also group directory in uploads? Roman Roman There is really no need to do this, because PmWiki creates the upload directory when it needs it. -- Neil Herber Corporate info

Re: [pmwiki-users] missing extra gui buttons (since moving to farm?)

2007-04-24 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-24 f.r.salomons is rumoured to have said: Every solution brings a new problem: the foxforum in my home wiki has all the guibuttons, but in the field wiki's (is that the correct term?) Hi Frits No answer for your button problems, but the least confusing terminology for wiki farms

Re: [pmwiki-users] Why all this zapping?

2007-04-30 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-30 The Editor is rumoured to have said: Thanks for the input Ben... I've enjoyed learning about the ethics of open source communities almost as much as the coding. A curious but interesting environment. Hi Dan A couple of questions that have come up a few times still have not

Re: [pmwiki-users] Why all this zapping?

2007-04-30 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
The Editor wrote: On 4/30/07, Neil Herber (nospam) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I have seen in questions posed here about ZAP and Acme, they are confusing people more than clarifying the reasons they both exist. It strikes me as curious that the ones asking the questions

Re: [pmwiki-users] Why all this zapping?

2007-04-30 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-04-30 Ben Stallings is rumoured to have said: We deal with brand names every day, folks. Acme appears to be a brand name (like Apple), while ZAP is clearly a product (like Macintosh). Is that clear enough? I an attempt to enlighten myself about the brand versus product, I checked

Re: [pmwiki-users] Why all this zapping?

2007-05-01 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-05-01 kjettil is rumoured to have said: I'd propose that, similarly, the Cookbook recipes be organized in two sets: 1 - One set for recipes which have been tested and proved to be stable, reliable and secure, and therefore can be recommended for safe use by serious web site

Re: [pmwiki-users] Wiki On A Stick

2007-05-03 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-05-03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumoured to have said: So I added this to http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WikiOnAStick Now is probably a good time to say that I chose that name very quickly. If someone can come up with a better suggestion, please do! I think ... on a stick is

Re: [pmwiki-users] Hi I'm trying to bottom-post in reply to a great comment on my earlier 1st post on this forum

2007-05-06 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Hi Karina This is a top-posted reply. It appears ahead of your question and can be difficult to understand because you need to read the message from bottom to top to follow the conversation. Look below your question ... Karina wrote: It says i'm top posting? I'm so sorry, but how do I reply

Re: [pmwiki-users] FW: Installation Question: How to point web server topmwiki.php script on the server?

2007-05-06 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Karina wrote: -I renamed the file:sample-config.php to config.php and took it out of the doc directory. Do I bring it up to the root directory, (i.e. place the config right next to my pmwiki file? Or do I put it within the pmwiki file, next to the cookbook, docs, local, pub etc.

Re: [pmwiki-users] Experimental captcha recipe

2007-05-08 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: For those who are curious, I'm playing with an experimental captcha recipe at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Captcha Comments, questions welcomed. Although I'm not blind, I wonder how they are to cope with it?

Re: [pmwiki-users] includesite and includeurl?

2007-05-13 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Hans wrote: Saturday, May 12, 2007, 12:03:01 AM, Kathryn Andersen wrote: Who has authority to fix it up? Nobody apart from the two authors of the two different recipes. Since neither IncludeSite nor IncludeUrl have Maintainers listed, I don't know who they are, or whether that is

Re: [pmwiki-users] Slashdotting?

2007-05-13 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-05-12 Stirling Westrup is rumoured to have said: So, what's the best way to prepare PmWiki for a possible slashdotting? Any advice would be appreciated. A page of mine (Alas! not PmWiki) was slashdotted twice on a machine that was much more heavily loaded and much less powerful than

Re: [pmwiki-users] Slashdotting?

2007-05-14 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-05-14 Daniel is rumoured to have said: The other side is the server hardware. Much harder to predict how it will do under load. Make sure you have the pages caching (default). Page compression makes the pages smaller but increases the load on the server. I would guess that the

[pmwiki-users] names with non-cap parts

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Is there any way to trick PmWiki into recognizing that an author name like Juan de Fuca is, in fact, three words and not Juande Fuca? I know that I can use (:title:) on the Profile page, and I can enter [[~Juan de Fuca]] where needed, but the automatically inserted author names on pages like

Re: [pmwiki-users] Official release of UserAuth2 recipe

2007-05-17 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-05-17 Jason Frisvold is rumoured to have said: I'd *love* to see group authentication.. I don;t believe that exists today. Specifically, given a username and password, the authentication scheme should load a list of the groups the user is in and act accordingly.. I don't mind

Re: [pmwiki-users] Official release of UserAuth2 recipe

2007-05-18 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Jason Frisvold wrote: On 5/17/07, Neil Herber (nospam) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AuthUser has supported group authentication for quite a while. For a quick overview of how it works, simply look at the Site/AuthUser page on your install. Let me re-phrase.. I'm looking to store the groups

Re: [pmwiki-users] Protect uploaded files from direct access?

2007-06-05 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-06-05 Ian MacGregor is rumoured to have said: If you decide to go the .htaccess route, I may be able to help. I use a .htaccess file in my document root to protect .jpg, .png, .gif and .bmp files from being directly linked. Here's the contents of the .htaccess file: # -- Begin

Re: [pmwiki-users] Notify.php error

2007-06-06 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
gary garcia wrote: My config.php looks like this $EnableNotify = 1; $NotifyDelay = 5; $NotifySquelch = 100; ini_set('SMTP','smtp.gmail.com http://smtp.gmail.com'); The problem still persists Try pointing to the SMTP server of your ISP. Because you are not on the same subnet as the

Re: [pmwiki-users] Notify.php error

2007-06-06 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 6/6/07, *Neil Herber (nospam)* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gary garcia wrote: My config.php looks like this $EnableNotify = 1; $NotifyDelay = 5; $NotifySquelch = 100; ini_set('SMTP','smtp.gmail.com http://smtp.gmail.com

Re: [pmwiki-users] Site.AuthList Questions

2007-06-24 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-06-24 Tegan Dowling is rumoured to have said: I would be interested in how other admins do this or if there are any best practices recommendations... A simple text file on one's own box? A protected page on the wiki? Good question -- I'd be interested in hearing

Re: [pmwiki-users] Site.AuthList Questions

2007-06-25 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-06-25 Sivakatirswami is rumoured to have said: Looking at Neils system, it's clear enough, but I don't see this as very scaleable. I'm already using Apache Basic Authentication now for about 12 users and I don't like it... I have one layer of web server task in PLESK (going into the

Re: [pmwiki-users] Email links

2007-07-07 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I email with a specific subject: [[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | email me]] How do I add the subject? Have a look here: http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_02/adv_tech/mailto.htm -- Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/

Re: [pmwiki-users] Question from new user about URLs and upgrading PMWiki

2007-07-19 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Stephen Jones wrote: Hello all, I am creating some URLs to pdf documents in my uploads folder. The URL is http://mydomain.com/pmwiki-2.1.27/uploads/Main/FileName.pdf As this URL has the current version of PMWiki in it, I just realized that it may break when I upgrade to a new version

Re: [pmwiki-users] What to call a collection of WikiGroups

2007-08-11 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-08-11 David Bessler is rumoured to have said: That loses the whole growing theme which I really like ... OOH! Got it ... WikiGarden ... Not quite an industrial farm. I'm gunna see how it googles. Note that the term wiki farm is based on the idea of a server farm not on an

Re: [pmwiki-users] Wiki philosophy

2007-08-13 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
wiki question wrote: We are setting up a wiki at work for an entire department. I am looking for a standard set of procedures to publish outlining the basic rules of engagement for wiki content. Has anyone put together a list of procedures/rules on how one should behave in a wiki

Re: [pmwiki-users] (no subject)

2007-08-26 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-08-26 Laurent Meister is rumoured to have said: So where is the content gone? How could it happen, that the page was edit, cleaning the history at the time? Is it possible that the file system was restored from a backup? One that was taken when your start page was empty? -- Neil

Re: [pmwiki-users] new recipe: FileList

2007-09-01 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Hans wrote: See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/FileList This is a simple script to add a (:filelist:) markup which provides a tabulted, cleaner and simpler looking file list than (:attachlist:). It is built on a modified FmtUploadList function. ~Hans Hans Could you add a

Re: [pmwiki-users] user authentication sharing with apache

2007-09-06 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Seth Cherney wrote: I have a site with many pages, so the browse and search is all being done through a java program, which indexes the output from staticpages. I want to simply use apache to login users to a global directory so that the search, wiki and links to static pages are all

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki and ISYS

2007-09-07 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Sandy wrote: marc wrote: Hi, I'm involved with a company that uses ISYS http://www.isys-search.com/ for their document management. They'd like to add their PmWiki site to ISYS, but since it scans the source files, this will clearly not work. Is the best way forward to periodically

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWIki AuthUser passwords stored in clear in PHP session files

2007-10-10 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Christophe David wrote: This question was already posted in August, but did not receive any answer. Same player shoots again ;-) PHP stores session data to temporary files on the server. These files contain in clear all the session variables and their values. When using AuthUser, PmWIki

Re: [pmwiki-users] Index.PHP Question

2007-10-25 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-10-25 Petko Yotov is rumoured to have said: P.S. On some Windows FAT32 systems it might be impossible to rename a file to all lowercase letters, in that case first rename Index.php to temp.php, then temp.php to index.php. From my experience, Windoze systems (hey, I run one!) are

Re: [pmwiki-users] Installing PmWiki...

2007-11-12 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-11-12 Patrick R. Michaud is rumoured to have said: So, my question is: what methods and tools are people typically using to install PmWiki to a webserver? I'll try to use the same or similar tools when creating the videos. Since my webserver is on my LAN, I just mount the Apache

Re: [pmwiki-users] how to remove vandalism from wiki

2007-11-17 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Matt Hollingsworth wrote: What's the best way to stop this but leave the page open for others to help? Captchas? That's what I'm currently looking at. I just added a password for editing and published it on the page. Amazingly, it stopped all of the spam. I also use PmWiki's blocklist

Re: [pmwiki-users] Easy way to prevent all editing

2007-12-09 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-12-09 Hans is rumoured to have said: You can now set in local config for instance: $HandleAuth['comment'] = 'edit'; to restrict commenting to edit authorisation. I hope I did not damage any functionality with this change! Hans This is just a wild guess, but couldn't you prohibit

Re: [pmwiki-users] Notify on windows

2007-12-13 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-12-13 Sameer Kumar is rumoured to have said: Hi all, I am running Pmwiki on a Windows XP/Apache/PHP setup. I am quite a newbie and have very little experience in managing web servers. The web server is on a computer in our office LAN. There is an MS Exchange server also connected

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki and Spam

2008-01-12 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2008-01-12 Randy is rumoured to have said: I don't understand the problem with displaying a password on Site.EditForm. Doesn't that stop robots? If robots can extract the password automatically, it's easy to e*n*c*o*d*e it in plain sight. That seems friendlier than captcha, which can be

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki and Spam

2008-01-12 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:46:48AM -0500, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: After I installed plain sight passwords (revealed in a GroupHeader) all of my spam stopped. See an example at: http://neil.eton.ca/wiki/index.php/Guest/Passwords I think this works for many

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki and Wordpress on same domain

2008-01-22 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2008-01-22 Jan Erik Moström is rumoured to have said: So if you have done this, please tell me how I should fix this. I handled this by having each program in its own subfolder, so: http://www.example.com/wiki/ http://www.example.com/wp/ You can steer users to the correct site with an

Re: [pmwiki-users] Wikis at school: Measuring authors' activity/amount of contribution?

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2008-01-23 Hans is rumoured to have said: Sorry if I have ranted on a bit! Hans Your post was a good summary of wiki culture, not a rant. -- Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ ___ pmwiki-users mailing list

[pmwiki-users] OT: SPF (was: Re: gmane pmwiki user archive not showing my emails)

2008-01-31 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2008-01-31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumoured to have said: Clearly, as Neil told me, a missing SPF record should never contribute for an email to be classed as spam. Yes it is, and should be, this indicates either: 1. Badly configured mail services. or 2. A spam bot If a domain has an

Re: [pmwiki-users] Reorganising our PMWiki?

2008-03-11 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2008-03-11 Nicholas Buttle is rumoured to have said: Is there an easy way of moving pages from one group/category to another? Can we just rename the files? eg GroupA.Page1 to GroupB.Page1 That's the easiest way. Delete the .pageindex file at the same time. PmWiki will rebuild it. --

Re: [pmwiki-users] OT: anybody done a tinyurl replacement??

2008-07-10 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Hans wrote: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 8:41:19 PM, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: Only the wiki admin would be generating new short urls, and there would not be that many (absolute max of 100), so I would expect a page that had a tabular layout of the form: shorturl longurl shorturl2

Re: [pmwiki-users] OT: anybody done a tinyurl replacement?

2008-07-11 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Peter Bowers wrote: With this in Tiny.List: ...snipped If you have difficulties with it let me know. I was not able to redirect to an external site (i.e., http://www.google.com), but I haven't taken the time to research whether that is a problem with WikiSh or whether that is a

Re: [pmwiki-users] Infected Cookbook Recipes?

2008-09-21 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I see pmwiki site under spam attack, and after having restored a couple of web pages, I'm troubling myself with the following (dreadful) thought: is there a sort of security lock/code/flag/hash/signature/whatever allowing people to trust (somehow) the recipes

Re: [pmwiki-users] Increased recipe security without much hassle (Was: Infected Cookbook Recipes?)

2008-10-08 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
Ian MacGregor wrote: This message is in reference to: http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users/2008-September/052378.html I've an idea about this. 1) Author generates an MD5 hash 2) Author uploads the recipe and adds a $RecipeName-hash page and links to it (ex. CookBook.MyRecipe would

Re: [pmwiki-users] quick question

2008-12-12 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2008-12-12 1:08 PM, David Johnson wrote: Hey everyone. How do you check the version of Pmwiki you have installed? This sounds like a very simple thing to me, but I still couldn’t figure out how to do it. Is there a way? -DJ Put {$Version} on a page and then view the page. Some

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmForm MailForm sending to multiple addresses

2009-01-07 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-01-07 10:32 AM, Jan Brejcha wrote: Hi all, it would be great if the MailForm could send e-mail also to the address filled by the user in the from field. Does anyone know, if this is possibile to set up? I am not sure this would be so great. Any mailform application that allows the

Re: [pmwiki-users] Don't display edit this page

2009-01-07 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-01-07 10:09 PM, kevin wrote: Hello all, This issue has probably been raised before, but I was not able to find in my archived e-mails. I would like to do a little programming so that pages that can be edited by any user display edit this page and pages that have been locked for

Re: [pmwiki-users] wikisym 2009

2009-01-10 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-01-10 2:55 AM, john.ran...@affinity.co.nz wrote: The 5th international symposium on wikis takes place in Orlando, Florida on 25-27 October 1009. For more information, see http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/ Is anyone thinking of attending and/or giving a paper? I am *thinking* about

[pmwiki-users] Permission problems with Windows Server 2008

2009-01-21 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
I have run PmWiki for years on a Windows 2000 server box. Recently I upgraded (??) the OS to Windows Server 2008 which appears to be the server branch of Vista. Everything on PmWiki works just fine, but I have noticed a strange permissions problem under specific circumstances and was hoping

Re: [pmwiki-users] Self registration

2009-01-22 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-01-22 Sandy is rumoured to have said: I've never used htpasswd. That's part of the Apache, isn't it? Sandy Yes, htpasswd is used by Apache for Basic Authentication (BA), but PmWiki can use htpasswd formatted files for AuthUser authentication. This makes no change to the Apache

[pmwiki-users] Registration models (was:Self registration)

2009-01-22 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-01-22 Patrick R. Michaud is rumoured to have said: All of this does bring up a point, however -- what if someone wanted self-registration but to manage an Apache .htaccess file to hold the data (and control access to other items as well)? Just to add a bit to the potential mix, I

[pmwiki-users] How can I make an uploaded file expire?

2009-01-22 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
I want to have an uploaded file available for a limited amount of time. I would like it to be deleted (or unavailable for download) after a certain date. If I protected the group where the download lived and had an authorization group (@limited) controlling access to the pages, could I make

Re: [pmwiki-users] How can I make an uploaded file expire?

2009-01-23 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-01-23 3:30 AM, Eemeli Aro wrote: 2009/1/23 Neil Herber (nospam) nos...@eton.ca: I want to have an uploaded file available for a limited amount of time. I would like it to be deleted (or unavailable for download) after a certain date. If I protected the group where the download lived

Re: [pmwiki-users] How can I make an uploaded file expire?

2009-01-23 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-01-23 9:23 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:21:51AM -0500, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: If I protected the group where the download lived and had an authorization group (@limited) controlling access to the pages, could I make the @limited authorization group

Re: [pmwiki-users] How can I make an uploaded file expire?

2009-02-04 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-01-23 9:50 AM, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: On 2009-01-23 9:23 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:21:51AM -0500, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: If I protected the group where the download lived and had an authorization group (@limited) controlling access to the pages

Re: [pmwiki-users] Fwd: I cannot get the sitewide password to work for pmwiki

2009-02-09 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-02-09 7:28 PM, akimbomidget wrote: From: *akimbomidget* akimbomid...@gmail.com mailto:akimbomid...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:06 AM Subject: I cannot get the sitewide password to work for pmwiki To: pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com mailto:pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com I've been

Re: [pmwiki-users] Gui Buttons. Looks like underline, gives Internal Link, in the core program.

2009-02-10 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-02-10 Patrick R. Michaud is rumoured to have said: 1. The underline button needs to put in underline code. We don't really have an underline button -- the intent is to separate internal and external links. If someone wants to suggest a better graphic for the internal link button I

[pmwiki-users] Permission problems on Windoze 2008

2009-03-19 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
A few months ago I migrated from Win 2000 to Windows Server 2008, which is essentially a server version of Vista. PmWiki runs exactly the way it did before ... or so I thought. Any files that are uploaded via PmWiki are visible in PmWiki, but they are not visible when I mount the server share

Re: [pmwiki-users] comment spam and blogs

2009-04-30 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-04-30 Tegan Dowling is rumoured to have said: Peter: That looks like a cool recipe! Would it be easy to create a version that would only work for specified wikigroup(s)? On many of I simply modify the authentication form (Site.AuthForm) to display prompts and passwords under

Re: [pmwiki-users] Improving PITS

2009-07-08 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-07-08 11:38 AM, Petko Yotov wrote: Hello, In the last few weeks we've had discussions about how to report bugs and how to build consensus about new PmWiki features. I read less comments than what I expected (but we're in the middle of the summer etc.) and I'll be happy to read

Re: [pmwiki-users] Server on an I-Phone

2009-07-28 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2009-07-28 7:46 PM, The Editor wrote: Hi all... I'm just wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to get a server with php installed on an I-Phone so that you could run something like PmWiki on it without having to go online. I thought it might be a great way to loads all kinds of

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