[Xapian-devel] Omega changes

[Sam Liddicott]

Olly Betts wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:15:34PM +0000, Richard Boulton wrote:
>  
>
>>I propose changing the configuration file search to read an environment
>>variable "OMEGA_CONFIG_FILE".  If this is set, the configuration will be
>>read from the file whose path is in the environment variable.  If this
>>is not set, the configuration will be read from $sysconfdir/omega.conf
>>(where $sysconfdir defaults to /etc, but can be set by parameters
>>to ./configure).  If the configuration file specified cannot be read,
>>default values will be used.
>>    
>>
>
>I'm not totally sold on this.
>
>Setting an environmental variable (at least for apache) requires admin
>access to the webserver configuration, or (assuming it's configured to
>allow you to) the creation of a .htaccess file, or some sort of wrapper
>around the CGI (e.g. a shell script which exports the variable and execs
>omega).  If .htaccess exists, the server has to read it for anything
>served from that directory, which is potentially quite an overhead.
>  
>
I agree with Olly.
I have installations dependant on the config file being read from the 
current directory.

Sam