[Pmwiki-users] Question regarding setup of webserver.

[Patrick R. Michaud]

Actually, you don't even need mod_rewrite--you can simply place the following
in the apache configuration file:

   Alias / /file/path/to/pmwiki.php/

and urls of the form  http://server/Main/HomePage  will work.
Note that Apache 2.0 installations still need to set "AcceptPathInfo On"
in order for this to work.

As Carlo mentioned, the downside to this approach is that every url
is treated as a PmWiki page.  In particular, there's no way to access
other files (e.g., uploads) at the same server hostname, because 
http://server/uploads/Group/file.ext will be sent to PmWiki.

However, I just thought of something:  Perhaps one can take advantage of
the fact that WikiGroup names always begin with a capital letter,
and therefore only alias the urls that start with a capital letter.  
Thus placing

   AliasMatch /([A-Z].*) /file/path/to/pmwiki.php/$1

in the httpd configuration will cause all urls of the form 
http://server/Group/PageName to be sent to PmWiki because of the 
capital 'G', while other urls not beginning with a capital letter 
(e.g., http://server/uploads/... and http://server/~username) would 
continue to be treated normally.

I just tried this on my local system and it worked, but there's a
bizarre side-effect that urls for non-existent resources (404 Not Found
errors) get passed to PmWiki as requests for "HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var".

Also note that the Alias and AliasMatch directives in Apache only work 
in the server and virtual host configuration files--i.e., not in 
.htaccess files.  I'll see if I can come up with a mod_rewrite equivalent
(mod_rewrite does work in per-directory .htaccess files).

Pm


On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:45:21PM +0200, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Carlo Strozzi wrote:
> 
> > For such things (and if you are using Apache) you need to set-up the
> > mod_rewrite rules appropriately. Have a look at the Apache documentation for
> > details.
> >
> Thanks, I've passed this info along to the guy with access to the 
> webserver.
> 
> > > Do any of you know if this is possible to achieve? I've looked at about 20 
> > > PmWiki-sites, and haven't found this to work anywhere.
> > 
> > Probably because they do not run just PmWiki but also other applications,
> > so having every URL rewritten to trigger PmWiki would not be appropriate.
> > 
> Maybe.. or they simply didn't know how. Hopefully they'll read this and 
> know then.
> 
> > > But it should be possible, a MoinMoin-site (http://wiki.dotgnu.org/), has 
> > > this working fine.
> > 
> > Yes, but note that "wiki" in the host name, which probably means that
> > the relevant web server is dedicated to running a wiki.
> 
> That's fine in this case (wiki.lyx.org v.s. www.lyx.org).
> 
> /Christian
> 
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