From 0bd07372f5f50ab4e03804186b222a6db8fe474b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Thoeny Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:30:09 +0000 Subject: none --- TWiki/TWikiInstallationGuide.mdwn | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/TWiki/TWikiInstallationGuide.mdwn b/TWiki/TWikiInstallationGuide.mdwn index d1037983..81633b2a 100644 --- a/TWiki/TWikiInstallationGuide.mdwn +++ b/TWiki/TWikiInstallationGuide.mdwn @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ These installation steps use the Apache web server on Linux as an example. TWiki * Edit the file `twiki/bin/wikicfg.pm` and set the variables at the beginning of the file to your needs. * Make sure RCS is installed. Set `$rcsDir` in `twiki/bin/wikicfg.pm` to mach the location of your RCS binaries. * Point your browser at and start TWiki-ing away! -* Note in case cgi user is **_not_** `nobody` : The `*,v` RCS repository files delivered with the installation package are locked by user `nobody` . In case the user is different (e.g. `www-data` ), it is not possible to check in files, this has the effect that the topic version number does not increase when saving a topic. In this case you need to unlock all repository files and lock them as user `www-data` (check the rcs man pages), or simply delete all the repository files. +* Note in case the cgi scripts are **_not_** running as user `nobody`: The `*,v` RCS repository files delivered with the installation package are locked by user `nobody` . In case the user is different (e.g. `www-data` ), it is not possible to check in files, this has the effect that the topic version number does not increase when saving a topic. In this case you need to unlock all repository files and lock them as user `www-data` (check the rcs man pages), or simply delete all the repository files. A simple way to switch the locker of the RCS files is to use sed:
`for f in *,v; do sed 's/nobody/www-data/' $f > x; mv x $f; done` * Security issue: Directories `twiki/data` , `twiki/templates` and all its subdirectories should be set so that they are **not** visible as a URL. (Alternatively, move the directries to a place where they are not visible, and change the variables in `twiki/bin/wikicfg.pm` accordingly) * Enable email notification of topic changes, [(4)](TWikiDocumentation#notification) has more. * Add the [PoweredByTWikiLogo](http://TWiki.SourceForge.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/PoweredByTWikiLogo) if TWiki is installed on a public web server. @@ -230,4 +230,4 @@ Directory `twiki/pub/icn/` : -rw-rw-r-- 1 twiki twiki 152 Mar 9 1999 xls.gif -rw-rw-r-- 1 twiki twiki 144 Mar 9 1999 zip.gif --- [[Main/PeterThoeny]] - 20 Aug 2000
+-- [[Main/PeterThoeny]] - 23 Sep 2000
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