[Owncloud] Ask for configuration on first run.

[Frank Karlitschek]

Wow. This looks great.

Could you create a merge request on gitorious.org?
Thank you for your contribution.


Cheers
Frank


On 13.03.2010, at 21:39, Robin wrote:

> First of all I would like to say that I love the idea of ownCloud and would 
> like to see if I'm able to help out.
> 
> After I read about ownCould in a blog post today I downloaded the source and 
> tried it out.
> On the first try, it failed because the configurations where wrong.
> 
> This isn't something I think it should do.
> 
> An enthusiastic users installs  the ownCloud server on his pc.
> When he tries it out, instead of seeing a good web-interface for a 	    
> wonderful product, he gets presented by a bunch of error messages because he 
> didn't change the config yet
> 
> I think a better solution would be to ask the user for the configuration.
> 
> Attached to this mail is my quick attempt to provide that, when no config is 
> present, it will show a form asking for them (and it tries to provide some 
> sane defaults) and will save them to the config file.
> 
> Another problem I had is that currently ownCloud assumes it's installed in the 
> root of the domain (some_domain.net instead of i.e. some_domain.net/owncloud)
> My solution is to use a new configuration item to define the url ownCloud is 
> installed in.
> I changed some links to use this config item but I guess there are still ones 
> who always point at root.
> 
> I hope I can contribute to this wonderful project.
> 
> -- Robin Appelman
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Frank Karlitschek
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