Re: file:// and refdcrc

If the directory is a subdirectory of the one apache is pointing at for
refdb, you seem to be able to get away with relative paths in L1. If
apache is pointing at /usr/share/refdb/www for example, and you store
your pdfs in /usr/share/refdb/www/bibliography, you can enter
bibliography/AUTHOR.PDF in L1 and how it resolve fine in the php
interface.

-d

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 00:28 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Dan O'Donnell writes:
>  > Hi have a question about the PDF root file business. If I want to put my
>  > local offprints in /var/www/research/bibliography/ and if my refdb setup
>  > is at http://refdb.example.com/ (and on the machine
>  > in /user/share/refdb/) I presumably change my refdbrc to
>  > have /var/www/research/bibliography/ as pdfroot.
>  > 
>  > 1) Does the substitution of file:// with PDF root take place during
>  > output (I'm assuming it does)?
>  > 
> 
> That's right. The URLs are stored as provided, but they are expanded
> when they're exported to a display format. They're not expanded when
> exported to an export format (RIS or risx).
> 
>  > 2) if I am using the PHP interface, how will the rleative path work?
>  > I.e. if the PDF root is not a subdirectory of the path I put in my
>  > apache configuration file, will it still work? or do I need to make sure
>  > that the path is a child of the main refdb directory?
>  > 
> 
> I'm afraid your repository would have to be in a subdirectory that
> Apache is allowed to access. This is not necessarily the folder of the
> RefDB web interface. You could allow Apache to read pretty much any
> directory. Remember that by default each user's public_html folder is
> readable by Apache too. I have to admit that I've never explored the
> pdfroot stuff in conjunction with the PHP interface, so there may be
> some dark corners left.
>  
>  > 3) Once I change the PDF root, is restarting refdbdctl enough for the
>  > change to take effect?
>  > 
> 
> Actually, changing the pdfroot setting itself should suffice because
> it is a client-side configuration. The clients are started in batch
> mode anyway by the PHP interface, so they will pick up the new
> configuration the next time they are run. If you use refdbc in
> interactive mode from the command line, you'd have to restart that in
> order to let the new setting take effect (or use the "set pdfroot
> <newval>" command).
> 
> regards,
> Markus
> 
-- 
Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
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Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/
University of Lethbridge
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