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Subject: Re: Can the "jspwiki.baseURL" expanded dynamically?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:00:13 +0200
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But you could have a small shell script which would replace the  
relevant sections in jspwiki.properties with sed or something...?

/Janne

On Feb 25, 2010, at 22:47 , Siegfried Goeschl wrote:

> Hi Janne,
>
> this helps for streamlining my configuration but does not solve the  
> problem - ${localhost.hostName} whould be completely dynamic  
> (InetAddress.getHostName()), i.e. no manual configuration involved.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Siegfried Goeschl
>
> On 25.02.10 20:27, Janne Jalkanen wrote:
>>
>> Ugh... Yeah, you might be able to do that using cascading  
>> properties and
>> variable expansion, and storing one of the cascading propfiles  
>> somewhere
>> where it's easily editable. This isn't documented very well anywhere,
>> but here are the relevant snippets:
>>
>> /**
>> * You define a property variable by using the prefix "var.x" as a
>> * property. In property values you can then use the "$x" identifier
>> * to use this variable.
>> *
>> * For example you could declare a base directory for all your files
>> * like this and use it in all your other property definitions with
>> * a "$basedir". Note that it does not matter if you define the
>> * variable before its usage.
>> * <pre>
>> * var.basedir = /p/mywiki;
>> * jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir = $basedir/www/
>> * jspwiki.basicAttachmentProvider.storageDir = $basedir/www/
>> * jspwiki.workDir = $basedir/wrk/
>> * </pre>
>>
>> * <h3>Cascading Properties</h3>
>> * <p>
>> * You can define additional property files and merge them into the  
>> default
>> * properties file in a similar process to how you define cascading  
>> style
>> * sheets; hence we call this <i>cascading property files</i>. This  
>> way you
>> * can overwrite the default values and only specify the properties  
>> you
>> * need to change in a multiple wiki environment.
>> * <p>
>> * You define a cascade in the context mapping of your servlet  
>> container.
>> * <pre>
>> * jspwiki.properties.cascade.1
>> * jspwiki.properties.cascade.2
>> * jspwiki.properties.cascade.3
>> * </pre>
>> * and so on. You have to number your cascade in a descending way  
>> starting
>> * with "1". This means you cannot leave out numbers in your  
>> cascade. This
>> * method is based on an idea by Olaf Kaus, see  
>> [JSPWiki:MultipleWikis].
>>
>> /Janne
>>
>> On Feb 25, 2010, at 17:23 , Siegfried Goeschl wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> for my "Wiki On A Stick" I'm currently using the following entry in
>>> jspwiki.properties
>>>
>>> jspwiki.baseURL=http://localhost:9627/wiki/
>>>
>>> That works fine if your server is running on your local machine but
>>> not on a copy of local wiki on a different box. Is there something  
>>> to
>>> expand the host name and/or address automatically
>>>
>>> jspwiki.baseURL=http://${localhost.hostName}:9627/wiki/
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> jspwiki.baseURL=http://${localhost.address}:9627/wiki/
>>>
>>> assuming that this will break on a multi-homed host
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Siegfried Goeschl
>>
>>