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| author | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-06-19 12:20:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-07-03 12:35:11 +0100 |
| commit | aaa0348f61d48711125dbeba89ef144c53e5cab4 (patch) | |
| tree | 554dbf1aa9eccbc5bd74ea8846189a880dcd21c2 | |
| parent | 855929f04efcc1033489a2df85c328ddbba73404 (diff) | |
Update cron variables documentation
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/manual_install.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/installing/manual_install.md b/docs/installing/manual_install.md index abb05f978..4cea0f1c8 100644 --- a/docs/installing/manual_install.md +++ b/docs/installing/manual_install.md @@ -371,13 +371,10 @@ server. The `ugly` format uses simple variable substitution. A variable looks like `!!(*= $this *)!!`. The variables are: -* `vhost_dir`: the entire path to the directory where the software is - served from. -- you should replace this with a path to the - directory where your Alaveteli software installation lives, - e.g. `/var/www/` -* `vcspath`: the name of the alaveteli checkout, e.g. `alaveteli`. - Thus, `/data/vhost/!!(*= $vhost *)!!/!!(*= $vcspath *)!!` might be - replaced with `/var/www/alaveteli` in your cron tab +* `vhost_dir`: the full path to the directory where alaveteli is checked out. + e.g. If your checkout is at `/var/www/alaveteli` then set this to `/var/www` +* `vcspath`: the name of the directory that contains the alaveteli code. + e.g. `alaveteli` * `user`: the user that the software runs as * `site`: a string to identify your alaveteli instance * `mailto`: The email address that cron output will be sent to |