Geneweb bases folder

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The bases folder is by default a subfolder of the GeneWeb distribution named bases that contains all your personnal data: the genealogical databases themselves with their notes, images, authentification files, template personalisation, etc. It can be moved or renamed according to your preferences (a launch parameter of gwd will specify where the bases are located).

In each of its etc, images, lang and src folders, subfolders carrying the name of the base mybase hold the specific data for each base.

• distribution: details all the other files and subfolders out of bases folder, like the programs or template files.
  • bases: The folder containing the GeneWeb databases
    • mybase.gwb: folder of the genealogical database called mybase
      • A set of binary files holding the base data (base, *.acc, cache_visited, *.dat, *.inx, nb_persons, notes_links, synchro_patches, tstab)
      • forum; a text file containing the forum
      • history; a text file containing the history of modifications
      • history_d: folder containing history diffs
      • notes; a text file containing the main note of the base (m=NOTES)
      • notes_d: folder containing notes (m=NOTES;f=file)
      • particles.txt: a text file containing particles (must contain the whole set)
      • wiznotes: folder containing wizard notes
    • mybase.gwf: associated .gwf configuration/parameters file
    • mybase-f.auth example of password file for friends (friend_passwd_file=)
    • mybase-w.auth example of password file for wizards (wizard_passwd_file=)
    • mybase2.gwb: folder of a second genealogical database mybase2
    • mybase2.gwf/auth configuration files associated to mybase2, etc.
      • tags.txt list of authorized tags. Supplied to gwd with -allowed_tags (full path name)
    • cnt: holding the robot file, locks, and memorising the access counts for each base
      • actlog: file temporary storing the tokens needed for login in CGI mode
      • robot list IP address of robots
      • mybase.txt access counts for mybase
      • mybase.lck lock file for mybase
    • etc: used in priority over the generic gw/etc files (see templates)
      • mybase: template folders for mybase
        • modules
          • module_xx.txt
        • header.txt base specific header file
        • trl.txt base specific trailer file
      • mybase2: idem
    • images
      • mybase: portraits images for mybase
        • first_name.occurence.last_name.jpg
        • other_first_name.occurence.last_name.jpg
      • mybase2: idem
    • lang: containing some base specific language related template text files
      • lex_utf8.txt lexicon file
      • lex_additionnal.txt additionnal lexicon file used by gwd with -add_lexicon (must be here)
      • mybase
      • mybase2
    • src
      • mybase
        • images: images called with m=IMH
          • myimage.jpg
        • file1.txt: text file called with m=SRC
      • mybase2: idem
  • gw
  • […] gwd/gwsetup launch scripts, README, etc.

Translations: All text files read through the m=SRC&v=file or m=DOC&s=file.txt commands are processed by GeneWeb which performs translations ([text to be translated]) and expands some macros (%s, %v, %i, %k see [1]). In addition, a more global translation of the text file can be obtained by appending _lg to the filename (where lg is the 2 letter acronym of a given language) which selects an entirely new file, specific to the selected language.

Files names in italic are user chosen. tags.txt is provided with its full path.

Note that with this configuration, all personalization happens in files stored in the base folder. A new release of GeneWeb may be installed safely by copying the new gw folder and possibly new copies of gwd/gwsetup launch scripts, CHANGES.txt, README, etc (the last two lines of the tree above).