[dev] setup/config

[Marko Djukic]

Quoting Jon Wood <jon at jellybob.co.uk>:

> On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 23:30, Marko Djukic wrote:
> [...snip...]
> > 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

i'm looking primarily for an interface to setup/config a horde installation. and
one that solves the problem of having webserver writeable files. with ftp
you're still breaking apart the config process into a UI and physically getting
the files on the server.

m.