[WebDNA] Is this safe?

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2013

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 110403
interpreted = N
texte = Based on conflicting statements, just looking for some clarification of =the issue of the "globals" directory for the FastCGI version of WebDNA.Background: I have one site moving from an ancient WebSTAR/WebDNA5 box =to a dedicated VPS on Ubuntu 12.04 using the FCGI version of WebDNA7. =It's a complicated site. The directory structure looks like:/var/www//code/data/virtualsite1 (ie. this.domain.com)/virtualsite2 (ie. that.domain.com)/virtualsite3 (i.e. other.domain.com)and other stuff that it takes to run the sites, but you get the idea. =All of the data (and some of the code) is common to all of the front end =websites for this one organization. Additionally, in trying to DRY =(Don't Repeat Yourself) up my code, I've move a substantial amount to =include files and functions. All that being said, I'm not 100% certain =of the exact path to the databases when I write the code, because of how =abstracted it gets. (the virtual sites themselves have levels of =directories.)=20I tried a cheat by aliasing (ln -s) the data directory into each virtual =site, so that I could reference the data as /data/database.db but then =when i look at my open databases, I have=20/var/www/data/inventory.db/var/www/virtualsite1/data/inventory.db/var/www/virtualsite2/data/inventory.dbthis is all the same data BTW, and of course appends and updates aren't =working correctly. Ah, such fun. Anyway, the globals directory would fix =this instantly, but I noticed that it isn't included now in the WebDNA =folder. As a test I made a "Globals" directory in the webdna folder, and =dropped a text file in there, and was able to retrieve it via the ever =popular 'include file=3D^test.txt'=20So back to my question=85 is it safe to pursue porting all of my data =into the globals directory and rewriting all of my code, or will that =functionality be removed? Or is there an alternate way to solve this =perplexing problem?=20Brian B. Burton= Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: [WebDNA] Is this safe? (Donovan Brooke 2013)
Re: [WebDNA] Is this safe? (Donovan Brooke 2013)
Re: [WebDNA] Is this safe? ("Brian B. Burton" 2013)
[WebDNA] Is this safe? ("Brian B. Burton" 2013)

Based on conflicting statements, just looking for some clarification of =the issue of the "globals" directory for the FastCGI version of WebDNA.Background: I have one site moving from an ancient WebSTAR/WebDNA5 box =to a dedicated VPS on Ubuntu 12.04 using the FCGI version of WebDNA7. =It's a complicated site. The directory structure looks like:/var/www//code/data/virtualsite1 (ie. this.domain.com)/virtualsite2 (ie. that.domain.com)/virtualsite3 (i.e. other.domain.com)and other stuff that it takes to run the sites, but you get the idea. =All of the data (and some of the code) is common to all of the front end =websites for this one organization. Additionally, in trying to DRY =(Don't Repeat Yourself) up my code, I've move a substantial amount to =include files and functions. All that being said, I'm not 100% certain =of the exact path to the databases when I write the code, because of how =abstracted it gets. (the virtual sites themselves have levels of =directories.)=20I tried a cheat by aliasing (ln -s) the data directory into each virtual =site, so that I could reference the data as /data/database.db but then =when i look at my open databases, I have=20/var/www/data/inventory.db/var/www/virtualsite1/data/inventory.db/var/www/virtualsite2/data/inventory.dbthis is all the same data BTW, and of course appends and updates aren't =working correctly. Ah, such fun. Anyway, the globals directory would fix =this instantly, but I noticed that it isn't included now in the WebDNA =folder. As a test I made a "Globals" directory in the webdna folder, and =dropped a text file in there, and was able to retrieve it via the ever =popular 'include file=3D^test.txt'=20So back to my question=85 is it safe to pursue porting all of my data =into the globals directory and rewriting all of my code, or will that =functionality be removed? Or is there an alternate way to solve this =perplexing problem?=20Brian B. Burton= "Brian B. Burton"

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