[Xerte-dev] Re: config.php should it be config-dist.php?

[Ron Mitchell]

Both Moodle and Mahara only have config-dist.php which you have to edit before installing. In my experience people are used to doing that and also copying updates over the top of the install directory without having to avoid copying config.php e.g. it doesn't exist in the update. 

 

In Moodle and Mahara there are hard coded settings required in config.php so again in my experience people are used to this.

 

As for why are there hard coded settings in config - David will know better than I but is that much different to how things were where you had to rename demo.txt or switch.txt?

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 18 July 2012 11:38
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: config.php should it be config-dist.php?

 

It depends on which system you mean - Wordpress requires you to edit a config file and it makes the install awkward in my mind.

 

Drupal doesn't require any editing, unless you want to multi site.

 

I don't think moodle has a dist?

 

I don't think config dist is standard for all

 

You might want to phrase the problem as - why are there hard coded settings in config.php?


On 18 Jul 2012, at 11:07, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:

Hi

been wondering about this... 

 

Although at the moment there isn't much to configure in config.php apart from commenting/un-commenting the required authentication method renaming config.php to config-dist.php would follow the way other apps do this. The reason it's relevant is when dragging the latest code over the top of an existing install where at the moment config.php overwrites the existing file and therefore changes the authentication back to guest.

 

Having said that I guess changing it to config-dist.php has implications for the quick xampp install code where the file would need to be copied/renamed like what used to happen with demo.txt.

 

If we don't rename I guess there needs to be a reminder somewhere about not overwriting an existing 1.8 config.php

 

Just wondering...

 

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