showfile plugin

This plugin should never be used in an open environment as it allows to read arbitrary files from the webserver, including security sensitive files like /etc/passwd, .htaccess or DokuWiki's own conf/users.auth.php

NOTE: I can't see what advantages this has over the source plugin. Amongst other things the source plugin includes:

• security options to restrict the files that can be displayed, and
• provides dependency checking to work with DokuWiki's caching, thereby allowing the rendered wiki page to be cached.

— Christopher Smith 2008/05/14 03:38

A basic plugin for displaying file contents, for file located on the server's disks. It's a first time experiment as DokuWiki plugin developer and the plugin was developed in like 10 minutes … so feel free to improve …

Of course the files must be readable by the Apache user or group for the content to be displayed.

-GrdScarabe

There is a dedicated Trac at : https://dev.fabienpoulard.info/dokuwikiplugins/wiki/showfile

<showfile>/var/log/messages.log</showfile>

Where

• /var/log/messages.log is the file to display ;)

It is recommended (mandatory) to add the ~~ NOCACHE ~~ directive to have the content refreshed each time the page is displayed.