[dev] setup/config

[Jan Schneider]

Quoting Marko Djukic <marko at oblo.com>:

> 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.

Maybe it's too early in the morning for me, but can you elaborate what the
difference is between what you want and what Jon proposed?
Btw, we could even use a VFS_ftp instance to get and write the configuration
files, making the process even more transparent.

Jan.

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