Re: A patch to keep cache directory out of webroot

Jonn Beames <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:55:12 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.xaraya.patches
Organization Xaraya
Message-ID <[email protected]>
mikespub wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Jonn Beames <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>>...
>>If the "public" var/something/whatever needs to be writable, there's no 
>>point in having a "private" var somewhere else.  What about, instead of 
>>creating an new API and rewriting mods to use it, we rewrite the mods to 
>>support a xarCoreGetVarDirPath() compatible, movable var directory?
>>
>> - Jonn
> 
> 
> Here I'm talking about content that needs to be :
> a) writeable by the web server,
> and
> b) accessible by the web clients
> 
The exact case we are trying to eliminate.  Unless it does not need to 
be eliminated - see Alla's posts in this thread.

> Public and private wouldn't contain the same stuff - see discussion
> elsewhere :-)
> 
> Mike.

I'm not opposed to the idea of public and private var directories, I 
just don't see a value-add.  On the contrary, it seems to add another 
unnecessary complication to xaraya.

  - Jonn