Hello Glen, +1 to jspwiki.baseUrl change, and I agree that /p/web may be not the best default value. As for jspwiki.workDir, it defaults to java.io.tmpdir, which seems to me a good default value, so why not make jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir and jspwiki.basicAttachmentProvider.storageDir use the same default value?
Also, it is possible to specify another build.properties (which holds those values) file via -Dbuild.properties property when invoking ant, or by replacing in line 66 the value of the build.properties property with your custom build.properties file. br, juan pablo On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, JSPWiki is presently nicely configured for (1) those who already > know what they're doing and have JSPWiki in production already, but can be > problematic for (2) newbie evaluators who just want to place a WAR in the > Tomcat and see what JSPWiki looks like and (3) newbie patch submitters who > have to do debugging but are annoyed at needing to re-enter configuration, > authorization and test page info everytime they want to deploy a new WAR. > I believe OOTB configuration should be better suited for (2) and (3) as > the users in (1) already know how to configure their > jspwiki.properties/jspwiki.**properties.impl files and nearly invariably > have to do so anyway for their production deployments. > > I was thinking we should maybe update our jspwiki.properties.impl file > with the following changes: > > -jspwiki.baseURL= > +jspwiki.baseURL=http://**localhost:8080/JSPWiki<http://localhost:8080/JSPWiki> > > -#jspwiki.workDir = > +jspwiki.workDir = myJSPWikiDir > > -jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.**pageDir = @pagedir@ > +jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.**pageDir = myJSPWikiDir/p/web/www-data/** > jspwiki/ > > -jspwiki.**basicAttachmentProvider.**storageDir = @pagedir@ > +jspwiki.**basicAttachmentProvider.**storageDir = > myJSPWikiDir/p/web/www-data/**jspwiki/ > > For incoming newbies in (2), we have a narrow window when they're > evaluating a Wiki for their corporate intranets and anything we can do to > shrink the soap opera between generating a WAR and viewing it from their > local Tomcat would be a good thing. Here, all we have to say is generate > the WAR (if they haven't downloaded it anyway from the distribution) and > dump in their local Tomcat and they can view it at > http://localhost:8080/JSPWiki and they're done. Couldn't be simpler. > While a URL of http://localhost:8080/JSPWiki may not work for *all* > newbies, it's far and away the most common URL for someone prototyping on > their local machine with Tomcat, sharply reducing the % who will still need > to configure the jspwiki.properties file. > > Also, combining all files that JSPWiki creates into one place > "myJSPWikiDir" (or whatever you'd want to call it) that Tomcat nicely > creates in the user's home folder helps them easily see all of JSPWiki's > internal moving parts while remaining fully comfortable that JSPWiki isn't > dumping files in system folders that they're going to have trouble finding > and cleaning out later. It's uncomfortable/unnerving to newcomers to see > OOTB JSPWiki placing files in the "/p/web/..." of their root system drive > (a folder system the average user might not have permission to anyway), > especially for something they're just evaluating locally. > > For developers in (3), these above settings work great for me during > testing and debugging on my local standalone Tomcat, I just need to drop > the generated WAR in Tomcat each time I do an "ant war" without needing to > bother to reconfigure the jspwiki.properties file each time. This, > however, took me quite a while to figure out on my own and I'd like to have > this setup OOTB for any quick patch submitter without them needing to go > through similar initial headaches. > > Regards, > Glen > >
