From bc9017308e74a3d1ee4fde4cb649548c7c02ad70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:37:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] response --- doc/forum/paths_to_files_outside_the_wiki_root.mdwn | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/forum/paths_to_files_outside_the_wiki_root.mdwn b/doc/forum/paths_to_files_outside_the_wiki_root.mdwn index f18b389d8..bcf927c27 100644 --- a/doc/forum/paths_to_files_outside_the_wiki_root.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/paths_to_files_outside_the_wiki_root.mdwn @@ -10,3 +10,9 @@ I found one solution, and that was to put a symlink called publicfiles into the But not even the symlink solution works, since I have only two choices, specify relative to the ikiwiki page, or relative to the absolute webdomain root. I need to specify from wiki root :( for example the link publicfiles/ will not as I thought link always to wikiroot/publicfiles , but rather link to publicfiles in the level of the wiki you are at right now. --ulrik + +> If you put the publicfiles/ into the srcdir that ikiwiki builds the wiki +> from, then it'll know about them and wikilinks to the files will work +> same as wikilinks to any other files ikiwiki knows about. Perhaps +> there's a reason you can't do that, such as the files being too large, or +> not being available on the host you build on, I don't know. --[[Joey]]