Design Specs: Application Configuration

Objectives

Maintain and document configuration of the next generation WormBase website.

• clean
• easy to maintain
• load different variables between dev and live (environment differences in configuration)

To Do:

• Document Configuration of the Web Application
• Develop a system for Maintaining Links to External Resources

Resources

Part 2: On Configuration (key,pdf) -- Configuration basics (and freebies)

The configuration file for the application can be found in the mercurial repository "wormbase" at the root level. It is called "wormbase.conf".

• pages are added here (as actions)

The templating system Template Toolkit also contains separate configuration related specifically to data presentation.