[BlueOnyx:08677] Re: home directory suggestion

[Chuck Tetlow]

I agree that we also have hundreds of users, and hardly anyone (if anyone) uses the private website feature.  But, I don't want to loose that feature.  Some people do value it.

I've already set my BX server's default so when adding a new site, the feature "Enable user owned webs " is turned off.  But I've noticed that BX still creates those /user/web directories when adding a user to the box. 

Yep - I just checked that on my test 5107R box.  When I created the site www.test.com and the user test_admin, it created the user's home directory with /web in it.  Even though the "Enable user owned webs" was off in the site creation.

Maybe we should change the configuration so those /user/web directories are not created unless that box is checked.   That might help with the confused users who don't know where to drop the site's files versus their private webpage's files.  That way, the /user/web directories are not created by default - and we should have fewer calls from idiots.

Chuck

P.S. On the good side - this invalidates my reply to Dan Porter yesterday.  On the old BQ servers, I had observed it not creating the user's home directory until the first e-mail message came in for that account.  But BX doesn't act that way.  Sorry Dan...

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Peter Robbins - Bridgewater Software Group <pete at bridgewater.it> 
To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it 
Sent: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:54:27 +0100 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:08668] Re: home directory suggestion

> yes, we have 100's of users and not one of them uses the /userdirectories.  I have often used the CLI to do a USERMOD to changethe home directory associated with a user to the site /webdirectory.
> 
> I would love to see the user directory as an editable field on theuser record but editable only by admin.
> 
> On 29/09/11 03:58, Jeff Keller wrote:Yep.  Happens to me all of the time too.  I'd forfeitthe "user-pages" feature completely, just to eliminate theconfusion.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Ernie<ernie at info.eis.net.au>wrote:
> I am consitently having problems withweb developers trying to ftp upload
> the site pages and putting them into the web folder fortheir personal
> pages, then complaining that they can't see the site!
> 
> Is it possible to make the site admin home directory at thetop level so the
> web folder they see is the correct site folder? Or perhapseven rename it to
> something obvious website instead of web?
> Another idea is if personal pages is unticks then no tocreat a web folder in their home directory.
> Pehaps the admins can have a symbolic link to the site pagesin their home
> directory?
> 
> - Ernie.
> 
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