[LON-CAPA-dev] Do not call your domain "uploaded"

Gerd Kortemeyer lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Sat, 17 Aug 2002 14:43:57 -0400


And while we are at it:

"raw" and "userfiles" are also bad names.

raw/domain/username - launch pad for replication
userfiles/domain/username - launch pad for one-time transfer of userfiles
from session host to home server

Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:

> Actually, a domain should also not be called "priv".
>
> Our top-level URL components now are
>
> priv/username - construction space (local machine only)
> adm - LON-CAPA stuff
> res/adm - more LON-CAPA stuff, but behind login. At some point the plan
> was (and maybe still is) to make a domain "adm" and user "includes" to be
> able to replicate and distribute libraries more quickly
> res/domain/username - published resource space ("res" frequently assumed
> by default and also frequently stripped off when storing references and
> symbs)
> uploaded/domain/username - these are user-provided docs, not published
> (need to call tokenwrapper to get from other machine)
>
> Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
>
> > As I am implementing the concept of course and user uploaded documetns,
> > there is now a second domain name that is forbidden: "uploaded".
> >
> > A LON-CAPA domain must not be called "adm" or "uploaded" - otherwise,
> > strange things happen. The install scripts should probably check for
> > those names.
> >
> > - Gerd.
> >
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