Re: PagePrivacy & admin view woes

Dave Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:07:18PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
>>I'm still stumped on this. I've looked at Kwiki::PagePrivacy.pm and 
>>don't understand how it works. I put prints into every sub and see them 
>>being called when I'm in the admin view, but never from the normal view. 
>>Is there anything that would help me understand how this module works? 
>>How does it stop people viewing private pages?
> 
> Hi,

Hello Dave,

Thanks very much for this - it works now :)

> I think I have this working; my setup is as follows:
> 
> * "root" wiki view lives in .../wiki (this has no "edit page" or "new"
>   functionality and private pages should not be accessible)

My root does have edit capability but it doesn't seem to matter (as one 
would hope :)

> * the admin view lives in .../wiki/admin (editing functions are
>   available here, as are the controls for setting pages' privacy level)

Yes, mine is in the same place.

> .../wiki/plugins contains, amongst other entries:
>   Kwiki::PagePrivacy

OK this is the only place where I was different, because that file says:

# WARNING: THIS FOLOWING SECTION OF PLUGINS SHOULD NOT BE MADE AVAILABLE
# TO A PUBLICLY ACCESSABLE SITE! They offer capabilities which only the
# site administrator should have access to. Install these plugins in a
# password protected view of your kwiki. See
# http://www.kwiki.org/AdminView for more information.

So I had commented out PagePrivacy. I've now added it back again.

Everything else is the same as your configuration (ignoring default 
editing capabilities)

> .../wiki/config.yaml contains nothing related to PagePrivacy.pm.
> 
> .../wiki/admin/plugins contains, amongst other entries:
>   Kwiki::PagePrivacy
>   Kwiki::Edit
>   Kwiki::NewPage (etc)
> .../wiki/admin/config.yaml is a symlink to ../config.yaml
> .../wiki/admin/config2.yaml contains:
>   privacy_group: admin
> 
> The admin directory is protected by a .htaccess file.
> 
> This appears to do what I want. How does it compare to your setup?

So there was just the one change I had to make to get it working. I'll 
add a warning/explanation on the AdminView & PagePrivacy pages of the wiki.

> When testing this, I had some trouble with my browser caching old pages;
> it's worth doing shift-control-reload (or whatever) after you've made a
> change to be sure you're seeing the latest view of the wiki. Also don't
> forget to run "kwiki -update" when you've made changes.

> Good luck,
> Dave

Thanks again,
Dave