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[jira] Created: (INFRA-1308) Configuration option for template
location in mirrors.cgi
Configuration option for template location in mirrors.cgi
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Key: INFRA-1308
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1308
Project: Infrastructure
Issue Type: Improvement
Security Level: public (Regular issues)
Components: Mirrors
Reporter: Carsten Ziegeler
The current /www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi searches the template to show in the same location as the original cgi and uses the same name, so for example, if it is felix.apache.org/mirrors.cgi, the called template has to be felix.apache.org/mirrors.html.
This approach is fine, but causes problems when the website is managed with external tools like confluence where you can't simply add the mirrors.cgi at the correct location. So it would be great if one could pass the template using a parameter like /www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi?template=somewhere.html.
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[jira] Commented: (INFRA-1308) Configuration option for template
location in mirrors.cgi
Posted by "Joshua Slive (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Joshua Slive commented on INFRA-1308:
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I have though of providing such an option, but it is not as simple as you describe. The path passed to template would either have to be a full unix path (which would be ugly and prone to breakage) or mirrors.cgi would need to have built-in knowledge of how the file-system is setup (also prone to breakage). And some serious thought would need to be put into whether this opens possible XSS attack vectors, given that any user would be able to ask any file to be processed as a template.
We used to just have a big configuration file mapping cgi scripts to template files, but that was a huge pain to maintain.
How do other confluence users handle this? Is it really impossible to make confluence live with a non-confluence file in its namespace? Can't you set aside part of your site to be not managed by confluence?
> Configuration option for template location in mirrors.cgi
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: INFRA-1308
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1308
> Project: Infrastructure
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Components: Mirrors
> Reporter: Carsten Ziegeler
>
> The current /www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi searches the template to show in the same location as the original cgi and uses the same name, so for example, if it is felix.apache.org/mirrors.cgi, the called template has to be felix.apache.org/mirrors.html.
> This approach is fine, but causes problems when the website is managed with external tools like confluence where you can't simply add the mirrors.cgi at the correct location. So it would be great if one could pass the template using a parameter like /www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi?template=somewhere.html.
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[jira] Closed: (INFRA-1308) Configuration option for template
location in mirrors.cgi
Posted by "Carsten Ziegeler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Carsten Ziegeler closed INFRA-1308.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
It seems that one solution is to put the confluence generated files to our web server (using the autoexport). There were can simply add the cgi script and everything should work.
So I'll close the bug.
Thanks!
> Configuration option for template location in mirrors.cgi
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: INFRA-1308
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1308
> Project: Infrastructure
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Components: Mirrors
> Reporter: Carsten Ziegeler
>
> The current /www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi searches the template to show in the same location as the original cgi and uses the same name, so for example, if it is felix.apache.org/mirrors.cgi, the called template has to be felix.apache.org/mirrors.html.
> This approach is fine, but causes problems when the website is managed with external tools like confluence where you can't simply add the mirrors.cgi at the correct location. So it would be great if one could pass the template using a parameter like /www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi?template=somewhere.html.
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