SiteInformation

Summary: How to quickly see the settings for a site without having to look at the contents of the local configuration file

Version: 2021-10-28

Prerequisites:

Status:

Maintainer: Julian I. Kamil

Categories: Administration

Discussion: SiteInformation-Talk

Question

How can I quickly see the settings for my site without having to look at the contents of my local configuration file?

Answer

With XSiteInfo plugin you can set a password-protected page that will display the current settings of the site. WARNING: Make sure that this page is password protected, because it will contain critical information about the site that can protentially be used to hack into your web site.

Files

XSiteInfo.php Δ

Installation

Place XSiteInfo.php in the cookbook directory and add the following line to the local configuration file:

        include_once('cookbook/XSiteInfo.php');

Create a page called, say Site.Information, and add the following markup:

        (:siteinfo:)

Author

Julian I. Kamil

Other Contributions

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Changes

2005-10-03: Initial release.
2006-06-05: Wiki Version
2011-12-02: update
2021-10-28: update for PHP 8 (anomen)

Comments

See discussion at SiteInformation-Talk

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