On 8/22/14, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> How feasible would it be to enable file access/linking to files on a given
> filesystem without having to upload them?
>
> Use case, I have a documentation system in /server/docs which I provide
> access internally via a file share to all users. However remote users are
> unable to access that share.
>
> How difficult/dangerous would it be to to have an extension that provided
> access to those files for our remote users.
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The code is officially "deprecated", but... try

$wgForeignFileRepos[] = array(
   'class'            => 'FSRepo',
   'name'             => 'shared-folder',
   'directory'        => '/your/directory',
   'hashLevels'       => 0,
   'url'              => 'http://your.wiki.tld/path/to/media/',
);

You can also specify other directories for the thumb directory, etc.
Default is a subdirectory of your shared folder I believe. Thumb
directory needs to be writable by the webserver.

There will be some performance overhead. Probably somewhat similar to
instant commons.

--bawolff

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