[mapguide-internals] Windows 7 - using program data folders rather than program files

[Jason Birch]

Is appdata universally available, or would we make that default for
the Win7+ installs only?
I think we could expand AppData to the full local path in the
installer as the default install location for these data areas;
serverconfig wouldn't need to pick it up for the paths referenced
there.

We were looking at this here a while back and ran into problems with
XP and 7 equivalent env vars, but that may have been for user data,
not app data.


On 2010-07-20, Bruce Dechant <bruce.dechant at autodesk.com> wrote:
> Zac,
>
> Good suggestion.
>
> This would require a code change to the server in order to understand the
> %appdata% as currently the paths inside the serverconfig.ini file do not
> support that directive.
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:21 PM
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> Subject: [mapguide-internals] Windows 7 - using program data folders rather
> than program files
>
> With the all the new fangled security on windows 7, it's rather
> annoying to have to
> change the permissions on the packages folder to be able to import a package
> via mapadmin
>
> http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/348462-unable-copy-folders-into-program-files.html
>
> I would suggest that the following folders belong in program data
>
> Logs
> Packages
> Repositories
> Resources
> Schema
> Temp
> Wfs
> Wms
>
> serverconfig.ini and providers.xml also present issues here but that
> would involve
> more fundamental underlying code changes
>
> can %appdata% type paths be used in serverconfig.ini?
>
> z
>
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