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@@ -48,3 +48,55 @@ ps. here's how to calculate space taken by html, picture and video files:
 > BTW, the `hardlink` setting is a good thing to enable if you
 > have large files, as it saves both disk space and copying time. 
 > --[[Joey]]
+
+Can underlay plugin handle the case that source and destination directories
+are the same? I'd rather have just one copy of these underlay files on the server.
+
+> No, but enabling hardlinks accomplishes the same effect. --[[Joey]] 
+
+And did I goof in the setup file since I got this:
+
+    $ ikiwiki -setup blog.setup -rebuild --verbose
+    Can't use string ("/home/users/mcfrisk/www/blog/med") as an ARRAY ref while
+    "strict refs" in use at 
+    /home/users/mcfrisk/bin/share/perl/5.10.0/IkiWiki/Plugin/underlay.pm line 41.
+    $ grep underlay blog.setup 
+        add_plugins => [qw{goodstuff websetup comments blogspam html sidebar underlay}],
+        underlaydir => '/home/users/mcfrisk/bin/share/ikiwiki/basewiki',
+        # underlay plugin
+        # extra underlay directories to add
+        add_underlays => '/home/users/mcfrisk/www/blog/media',
+    $ egrep "(srcdir|destdir)" blog.setup 
+        srcdir => '/home/users/mcfrisk/blog',
+        destdir => '/home/users/mcfrisk/www/blog',
+        # allow symlinks in the path leading to the srcdir (potentially insecure)
+        allow_symlinks_before_srcdir => 1,
+        # directory in srcdir that contains directive descriptions
+
+-Mikko
+
+> The plugin seems to present a bad default value in the setup file.
+> (Fixed in git.) A correct configuration would be:
+
+        add_underlays => ['/home/users/mcfrisk/www/blog/media'],
+	
+Umm, doesn't quite fix this yet:
+
+    $ ikiwiki -setup blog.setup -v
+    Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /home/users/mcfrisk/bin/share/perl/5.10.0/IkiWiki
+    /Plugin/underlay.pm line 44.
+    $ grep underlay blog.setup 
+        add_plugins => [qw{goodstuff websetup comments blogspam html sidebar underlay}],
+        underlaydir => '/home/users/mcfrisk/bin/share/ikiwiki/basewiki',
+        # underlay plugin
+        # extra underlay directories to add
+        add_underlays => ['/home/users/mcfrisk/www/blog/media'],
+    $ ikiwiki --version
+    ikiwiki version 3.20091032
+
+-Mikko
+
+> Yeah, I've fixed that in git, but you can work around it with this:
+> --[[Joey]] 
+        
+	templatedirs => [],