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showfile plugin
Compatible with DokuWiki
A basic plugin to display the content of files present on the server's disks
The missing download url means that this extension cannot be installed via the Extension Manager. Please see Publishing a Plugin on dokuwiki.org. Recommended are public repository hosts like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket.
Similar to displayfile, source, src
 | 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
| Download | plugin-showfile.tar.gz |
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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
Development
There is a dedicated Trac at : https://dev.fabienpoulard.info/dokuwikiplugins/wiki/showfile
Usage
<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.