Question

Our network administrators are requesting that we stop uploading MS Office documents to the web server.

Our servers have an area at the same level as htdocs and cgi-bin called data-shared which is the preferred location for non-html (or supporting) files.

In TWiki.cfg I changed the path and url for $pubUrlPath and $pubDir to reflect this but in testing it looks like files are still uploading to the same pub directory that it was using before - where else do I make the change - or is this not even possible?

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-- MaureenDunlap - 03 Oct 2005

Answer

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TWiki's pub directory can be anywhere in the file system, provided it is accessible via URL. In your case you could move /path/to/htdocs/twiki/pub to path/to/data-shared/twiki/pub if and only if that directory is htdoc enabled. You need to reflect the change in TWiki.cfg's $pubUrlPath and $pubDir.

Limitation: If the data-shared directory is accessible as a mounted drive people will be able to circumvent TWiki's revision control of attachments.

See related WebDAVPlugin.

-- PeterThoeny - 04 Oct 2005