Pivot Setup (version 1.3.1)

hansfn · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 2:44 pm Post subject: Pivot Setup (version 1.3.1)

I'm happy to announce "Pivot Setup". I wrote it as a reply to my own feature request in the Pivot Forums - Improved installation security wise. From the docs:

hansfn · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject: Re: Pivot Setup (version 1.3.1)

I'm happy to announce version 1.2 (just in time for you to use it to upgrade to Pivot 1.40 beta 2):

- Upgrade action now supports upgrading to 1.30.X and 1.40.X. (The filenames of the zip files at SF had changed.)
- Pivot Setup tries (and normally succeeds) to back-up the old files before upgrading!
- Displays the current version number on the upgrade page.

Everyone is encourage to upgrade. Read the first post to get the new version.

hansfn · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:07 am Post subject: Re: Pivot Setup (version 1.3.1)

On servers with just 8MB memory for PHP, the back-up that Pivot Setup tries to do before upgrading may fail (and hence stop the complete upgrade process). Until I have released version 1.3, just comment out/remove the line containing "backup();" if you have this problem.

hansfn · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: Pivot Setup (version 1.3.1)

I'm very happy to finally announce version 1.3. Changes:

- Most importantly, you can now chmod any file using Pivot Setup. This solves the problem for people that like to edit their templates (and such) outside Pivot (and upload the modified files with FTP).
- You can turn off back-up using a setting in the config section of the file. This is needed if the script runs out of memory.
- The script now uses the standard, familiar Pivot admin GUI.

hansfn · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:45 am Post subject: Re: Pivot Setup (version 1.3.1)

I'm happy to announce version 1.3.1. This is a minor upgrade - if 1.3 works for you there is no need to upgrade. Changes:
- Fixed SourceForge updater file detection.
- Downloading the PclZip library from pivotlog.net (in stead of from my work server).
- Fixed a safe mode issue (when upgrading).

komputist · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:17 am Post subject: Re: Pivot Setup (version 1.3.1)

Regarding PS's requirement that we, if we want to edit files, set the permisions per file using the PS, does that requirement also count when the user uses as file transfer program in SFTP mode (By SFTP I refer to the "SSH file transfer protocol" and not to "FTP over SSH"). After all, then the permissions should be kept, or?

hansfn · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:55 am Post subject: Re: Pivot Setup (version 1.3.1)

Preserving permissions is normally OK - SFTP and SCP (scp -p) does that. However, the problem is to preserve the ownership of the files. The files installed by PS are owned by the webserver user (and that is really important if your server is using safe mode). When you copy files using SFTP (or SCP) the copied files are owned by the user you login in as.

You can either tar the files and copy them over, or use rsync to preserve ownership.