[wplug-plan] Website Revisions

[Jeremy Dinsel]

OK .. let's see .. there's a lot of stuff in there (most of the totally and
confirmed unused stuff is not executable -- the perms are set to a-x).

htsearch is used by the htdig interface
cvsweb.cgi would be used if we still had cvs stuff online

There's a directory called jeremy that has stuff for me in it (that I don't
think I use)

The following two are some old stuff for wplug:
wplug

   Some generic stuff is in there, too -- like ora_choices which is how we get
   our ORA image on the splash page

   The rest of the stuff in that directory is for the old MySQL minutes stuff.
   We don't really use this anymore, but I think pages still make calls to it.

wplug-meeting

   Posting meeting announcements into the web pages. No one uses this anymore.

There are two database engines right now .. pgsql and mysql. All the php that
I wrote uses pgsql, James O'Kane asked for mysql so what ever ends up in there
is his doing. There may be some old stuff left around from the cgi stuff that
used MySQL, but I think we lost the data in a disk crash.

Moving forward: I would recommend a new directory for all cgi stuff (although
we shouldn't use CGI at all anymore .. it should be all PHP or so I think).
Once everything has been moved over, we can remove the old by chmod a-x until
we're sure it's not used.

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Zach Paine wrote:

: Hey all,
: 	I'm in the process of setting up an automagic announcer thingy, and I
: 	would like some clarifications from those in the know.  What's up with
: 	the cgi-bin.  What are all of those perl scripts in there supposed to
: 	do?  Was that a past project?  I think we need to clean out the cruft
: 	in the directory structure and the database, the problem is, I'm not
: 	really sure what the cruft is.  Should we move website re-design
: 	related traffic somewhere else or is here a find place?
:
: 	zman
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