[dev] setup/config

[Jon Wood]

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 23:30, Marko Djukic wrote:
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> what are the alternatives?
> - how can we stick with the browser as the user-friendly install mechanism? is
> there a way to get around the file-system write permissions? if anyone has used
> cups, how do they do that browser based user/pass authentication to modify the
> file system? is it that they have a mini-webserver as part of their code? could
> we use a dedicated mini-webserver as part of the "admin" package for horde? a
> good example could be the nanoweb server written in php (main code base only
> 60kb from what i can tell).
> - use something like phpgtk?
> - use dialog/whiptail type of dialog managers? anything available for windows?
> 
> i personally like the idea of a dedicated mini-webserver at first glance. it
> maintains the clean web-oriented code, seems like a secure option (run on a
> secure port, behind a firewall, ask for user auth, etc etc), and a relatively
> small increase in code (60kb, whilst i'm already at 20kb with the unfinished
> CLI code and it's looking crap).
> 
How about doing what forwards/vacation do, and ftp it into place? I'm
assuming that most people will have FTP access to their web server, and
that those who don't, have someone available to help them out.

Jon
> marko