I do not understand the disadvantage of having it be web based.
The whole goal of this is to make MediaWiki easy to configure, so that all updates are taken care of, and the user will never have to run anything outside of MediaWiki itself. Of course this area would be protected so sysops, or some other special user group, would only have access to it.
This would also allow users to have control over a wiki when they do not have close to enough control over the backends to the site, such as SSH or SFTP.
It would not be a bloated extension, or take up to much memory, or anything similar. It would just make configuring the wiki and staying up to date (security vulnerabilities to extensions could be easily seen) much, much easier and user friendly.
Kasimir
On 6/10/07, Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
DreamHost disables urlfopen by default. (Of course, they also give shell access: It's a weird world.)
Compiling PHP is something that's probably beyond the ken of the people for whom a GUI would be most beneficial.
On 6/10/07, Gary Kirk gary.kirk@gmail.com wrote:
My host disables urlfopen by default but they advised me to just make a php.ini and allow it, which works. Do many hosts not allow that?
On 10/06/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Gary Kirk wrote:
I think one of the main advantages of such an extension manager is for people on shared hosts/non-techies etc who haven't got a clue what 'the shell' is. IMO, this needs to be web-based.
They should do it on local, then upload. A GUI would be beneficial for
them.
Their host probably won't allow their script to remotely fetch the checking page, getting errors: "It doesn't work", when it really means: "my host is using safe-mode / disabling url-fopen".
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