[freeside] config files

[ivan]

On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:07:29AM -0800, Kristian Hoffmann wrote:
> > Now, the next bit is this:-
> > 
> > Create the `/usr/local/etc/freeside/counters.datasrc', and
> > `/usr/local/etc/freeside/export.datasrc' directories for each datasrc (owned
> > by the freeside user).
> > 
> > The "datasrc" directory is what I didn't understand. What is the name
> > related to?  It's not the database name or conf.DBI:mysql:dbname=freeside
> 
> I ran into the same problem.  Sorry if I explain this incorrectly, but the
> three directories are conf.[datasrc], counters.[datasrc], and
> export.[datasrc].  The "[datasrc]" will be how perl accesses your
> database.  For example, I use the DBI perl modules (don't think there's
> much of a choice there), mysql db server, and the dbname "freeside."  My
> "[datasrc]" will be DBI:mysql:freeside which is what you use to name the
> directories.  The mapsecrets file maps users from apache to a secrets file
> under conf.[datasrc] which contains the username and password for that
> [datasrc]. So, your mapsecrets file would look something like...
> 
> salesguy1 conf.DBI:mysql:freeside/secrets
> 
> The advantage of this is that you can have users on the same webserver
> retrieving data from different databases based on what their username is.
> It doesn't make much of a difference for most people, but if you're
> running billing services for serveral ISPs, that makes life a whole lot
> simpler.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> P.S. Ivan, is that a pretty good explaination?  Maybe you should put it
> in the config.html.  :)

Patches gladly accepted, especially for this section of the documentation. 
:) 

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_ivan