[wpkg-users] Deployment over Internet

[Philipp v. Thunen]

Hi,

Rainer Meier wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, wpkg seems to expect a wpkg_web installation under this
>>> path (because it appends profiles_xml_out.php to the URL):
> Yes it does. This feature to fetch the XML databases via HTTP has been added for
> web-based management tools like wpkg_web. However you do not necessarily need to
> run wpkg_web. Any HTTP server serving packages_xml_out.php, profiles_xml_out.php
> and hosts_xml_out.php should do it. The names are configurable in config.xml.
> You might want to try setting them as follows:
> 
> <param name='web_packages_file_name' value='packages.xml' />
> <param name='web_profiles_file_name' value='profiles.xml' />
> <param name='web_hosts_file_name'    value='hosts.xml' />
> 
> So it will fetch these three files instead from the URL configured in wpkg_base.
> Any Apache server should do the job then.

d'oh, then it's much easier than I believed it to be. Thanks for your
hints, I accordingly created these three php-files on the webserver
containing only
 <? readfile('whatever.xml'); ?>
and... it just works now :-)

Thanks for all your great work, wpkg is really unbelievably practical!

Best regards,
Philipp