Item4001: enable the splitting out of static file serving to another web server, or even host.

begin to seperate out apache functions for scalibility

while we would like to have more than one server running twiki queries, the first thing that needs to be seperated out is the serving of simple plain attachments.

For systems like TWiki.org, where the individual security of an attachement is not currently dealt with (except through obscurity), this can be done relativly simply, by adding a

$TWiki::cfg{defaultPubAbsoluteUrl} = 'http://pub.twiki.org/p/pub'

and then changing TWiki::getPubUrl() to use that absolute URL

of course there are file syncing issues to be dealt with, but a begining is needed.

-- TWiki:Main/SvenDowideit - 30 Apr 2007

this is now DistributedServersPlugin for Foswiki.

-- SvenDowideit - 24 Nov 2008