Item9937: People that have manually copied Foswiki.spec to LocalSite.cfg (not recommended) have problems with new settings added.

-- AkshayAnant - 01 Nov 2010

It appears as though somehow Foswiki.spec got copied into the intial LocalSite.cfg.

lib/Foswki/Configure/FoswikiCfg.pm should probably remove any embedded __END__ lines, along with any embedded 1;, ensuring that the final line in the configuration is the 1;

-- GeorgeClark - 01 Nov 2010

If Foswiki.spec is copied into LSC without editing, and configure is run, then configure complains about the missing settings and throws away LSC, giving the user a fresh file upon save.

If Foswiki.spec is copied and edited so that all of the mandatory settings are provided, then the problem can be recreated. The __END__ stops the evaluation of the file, and new settings are appended to the end, and ignored.

It appears that it would be safe to remove __END__ from the Foswiki.spec file, and add a comment to Foswiki.spec suggesting that it not be copied into LocalSite.cfg. That should be sufficient. The extra 1; embedded in the file doesn't seem to cause issues. and the copyright comments are ignored and not copied over or seen in the UI.

-- GeorgeClark - 01 Nov 2010

After discussion on IRC, decided to only clarify comments at beginning of Foswiki.spec.

-- GeorgeClark - 01 Nov 2010

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