1 [[!template id=plugin name=underlay author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]]
2 [[!tag type/special-purpose]]
4 This plugin adds an `add_underlays` option to the setup file. Its value is
5 a list of underlay directories whose content is added to the wiki.
7 Multiple underlays are normally set up automatically by other plugins (for
8 instance, the images used by the [[plugins/smiley]] plugin), but they can
9 also be used as a way to pull in external files that you don't want in
10 revision control, like photos or software releases.
12 Directories in `add_underlays` should usually be absolute. If relative,
13 they're interpreted as relative to the parent directory of the basewiki
14 underlay, which is probably not particularly useful in this context.