Userconf

Userconf allows users to have their own configuration files. It is in beta version, and requires some cooperation from other extensions to disallow unsafe options (for example, in version 1.2 it is not possible to have Eliom sites for users).

Configuration

To use this extension, first load it from the configuration file:

<extension findlib-package="ocsigenserver.ext.userconf"/>

Then, if you want to allow users to have their own configuration files, put in your hosts something like the lines below. (Unless you understand Userconf well, you probably just want to use those lines as is.)

<redirect regexp="(https?://[^/]*)/~([^/]*)" dest="\1/~\2/" />
<userconf regexp="~([^/]*)/(.*)" conf="$u(\1)/.ocsigen" prefix="~\1" url="\2" localpath="$u(\1)/public_html" />

The configuration file specified in conf will be parsed for each request matching the regular expression regexp. Here, as in staticmod, $u(toto) is the Unix home directory of user toto. Extensions inside the user configuration file will behave as though executed in a <site> tag of root prefix, while url is used to match the remainder of the url (the path prefix/url must be equal to regexp). Finally, the option localpath is used to specify the files the user is allowed to send: in userconf mode, all the paths used in Staticmod must be relative, and are appended after the evaluation of localpath.

The syntax of user configuration files is usually the same as the one of the part between <host> and </host> in the main configuration file. However, the extensions can choose to disallow some options that are unsafe in user mode, or forbid user mode entirely. See their individual documentation for details.