[dokuwiki] Re: wiki farm

Just to point out for those interested -- there are over 50 references to realpath in define statements throughout the DokuWiki code. This leaves me wondering ... if instead, DokuWiki included a custom realpath that did NOT resolve symlinks, I believe this would allow DokuWiki to work in both standard (no symlink) or wiki farm (symlink) environments.
This is exactly what I was thinking about since your first mail :-) A patch would be welcome.
Another modification that would be most helpful in using DokuWiki in a farm setup is to have separate definitions for all configuration files.
In our wiki farms, we have replaced all calls to DOKU_CONF.'local.conf.php' and DOKU_CONF.'acl.auth.php' with $conf['conffile'] and $conf['aclfile'], respectively.
Thus, those files can be managed separately for each wiki, but the rest of the DOKU_CONF directory can still be shared.
It would probably be best to come up with a separate DOKU_CONF_... definition for every file.
Would a patch achieving this also have a chance to be included in future DokuWiki versions, or are the hardwired config file names the preferred way of doing this? 

Simon

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