[Mediawiki-l] Save mode and File uploading

Fri Dec 3 04:57:37 UTC 2004

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:35:42 +1100, John Yu <jyu at objectmastery.com> wrote:
> Hmm, the ellipses in your list... you mean I need to create all
> directories 0/00 to f/ff? Including the subdirs under temp and archive,
> that's 9000+ directories to create! Is that right?

Uploads are filed based on md5sums; so, yeah, the maximum layout's
gonna be pretty humongous. Easily done though, if you can get at a
shell and Perl:

$ cd /path/to/your/wiki/images
$ mkdir archive temp
$ perl -e '@hex=("0".."9", "a".."f"); for $pre ("", "archive/",
"temp/") { for $w (@hex) { mkdir("$pre$w"); for $x (@hex) {for $y
(@hex) { mkdir("$pre$w/$x$y") } } } }'

And then adjust the ownership of everything recursively if need be.
If you *don't* have shell access, it's not so easy; either you could
get Perl to issue FTP commands from your home PC (I bet there are
plenty of modules on CPAN that make *that* easy); or, you could just
edit MediaWiki so that it stores uploads in one flat directory.

> What about images/thumb directory? Do I need to create 0/00-f/ff
> subdirectories under it as well?

Oh, well, if you do, add thumb to the mkdir line, and "thumb\" to the
same list as "archive/" and "temp/"

;)

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]