I grouped the config items in a new way and added a few comments.

diff --git a/source/config.properties-dist b/source/config.properties-dist
index 16dea49..950a9c6 100755 (executable)
--- a/source/config.properties-dist
+++ b/source/config.properties-dist
@@ -1,58 +1,126 @@
 #
+# Sample config for Mir
+# by Matthias <mjordan@code-fu.de> 2001-09-12
+#  
+# The Mir software realizes a semi-dynamic web service:
+# The web server that is accessed by users has pure static
+# pages. These pages are generated by the Mir software that
+# consists of a collection of Java servlets and HTML templates.
+# Mir uses a database server to store the data that is needed to
+# build the static site.
+# So there are basically three parts in this config file:
+# 
+# a) general setup
+# b) static site config
+# c) dynamic admin site
+# d) database config
+# 
 # edit this to suit your needs (here with sampleuser idfx)
+# After you edited this file, build.sh has to be invoked.
+# To be sure, also restart Tomcat.
+# 
+# Note that for Mir to work, Tomcat has to be set up to handle all
+# URLs that begin with /servlet. All other URLs are handled by Apache.
 
-Home=/var/work/idfx/Mir/
-HTMLTemplateProcessor.ActionRoot=/idfx/servlet/Mir
-HTMLTemplateProcessor.DocRoot=/idfx
+
+#
+#
+# GENERAL SETUP
+#
 
 ClearXslCache=no
+StandardLanguage=de
 DirectOpenposting=yes
 
-#use rsync to mirror the website to a remote-host
-Rsync=no
-Rsync.Script.Path=/var/www/bin/rsync-copy
 
-StandardLanguage=de
 
-# the directory where the html-files will be saved
-Producer.StorageRoot=/var/www/sites/work.indymedia.de
+#
+#
+# STATIC SITE CONFIG
+#
+
+# the url of the static site
+Producer.ProductionHost=http://indy.code-fu.de
+
+# The above URL points to the following directory, in which 
+# the generated HTML pages will be stored
+Producer.StorageRoot=/pub/Dokumente/Indymedia/de-tech/Mir/produced
+
+
+
 
-# the url of the site
-Producer.ProductionHost=https://work.indymedia.de
+#
+#
+# DYNAMIC SITE CONFIG 
+#
+
+# Home is the directory in which the compiled Java binaries are stored.
+# Think of it as "install directory" of Mir.
+# This collection of binaries is also referred to as "webapp" in Tomcat
+# terms.
+# Because Mir is a collection of servlets, Tomcat has to know where the
+# servlets reside. So you have to add a link to the below directory in the
+# webapps directory of Tomcat:
+# cd /usr/share/tomcat/webapps ; ln -s $Home Mir
+# where $Home is the below directory and Mir is the first directory level
+# in HTMLTemplateProcessor.ActionRoot
+Home=/pub/Dokumente/Indymedia/de-tech/Mir/
+
+# The following item is the class that is to be invoked by Tomcat for admin
+# maintainance. It is relative to the webapps directory in Tomcat.
+# To determine what class file is to be loaded, start in the webapps
+# directory. In the following config item, replace "/servlet/" by
+# "/WEB-INF/classes/" and append ".class". This is the name of the class
+# file to be executed.
+HTMLTemplateProcessor.ActionRoot=/Mir/servlet/Mir
+
+HTMLTemplateProcessor.DocRoot=/Mir
 
 # the url of the openposting-servlet
-Producer.OpenAction=https://work.indymedia.de/idfx/servlet/OpenMir
+Producer.OpenAction=http://indy.code-fu.de/Mir/servlet/OpenMir
+
 
 # fill this variable if the pages should not be saved directly
 # in the Producer.StorageRoot. then the pages will be saved
 # in this subdirectory
-Producer.DocRoot=/user/idfx/produced
+Producer.DocRoot=
+
 
 # this is the name of the subdirectory where the image-dir
 # will be linked to.
-Producer.ImageRoot=/user/idfx/produced/img
+Producer.ImageRoot=img
+
+# the url of the image-server (is this true?)
+Producer.ImageHost=http://indy.code-fu.de/images
 
 # the url of the video-server
-Producer.Video.Host=http://work.indymedia.de/video
+Producer.VideoHost=http://indy.code-fu.de/video
 
 # the url of the audio-server
-Producer.Audio.Host=http://work.indymedia.de/audio
+Producer.AudioHost=http://indy.code-fu.de/audio
 
 # the url of the image-server
-Producer.Image.Host=https://work.indymedia.de
+Producer.Image.Host=http://indy.code-fu.de/images
 
 # image specific storage directories
 # absolute directory, where the images are saved
-Producer.Image.Path=/var/media/images
+Producer.Image.Path=/pub/Dokumente/Indymedia/de-tech/Mir/produced/images
 
 # relativ directory, where the thumbnails will be saved
 Producer.Image.IconPath=/icon
 
+
+
 #
 # edit with caution below this line
 ######################################################################
 
 #
+#
+# DATABASE SETUP
+#
+
+#
 # specify your database
 
 Database.poolMin=1
@@ -72,14 +140,15 @@ Database.Logfile=log/dbentity.log
 
 #
 # configuration for adaptor mysql
+# In this example, "mir" is the dbname
 
-Adaptor.MySQL.URL=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mir
+Adaptor.MySQL.URL=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Mir
 Adaptor.MySQL.Driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
 
 #
 # configuration for adaptor postgres
 
-Adaptor.PostgreSQL.URL=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/mir
+Adaptor.PostgreSQL.URL=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/Mir
 Adaptor.PostgreSQL.Driver=org.postgresql.Driver
 
 #
@@ -248,4 +317,4 @@ Xsl.TopicList=producer/topic.xsl
 Xsl.OpenList=producer/open.xsl
 Xsl.Wap=producer/wml2.xsl
 
-
+Sync.Script.Path=/var/www/bin/rsync-copy