[pmwiki-users] Using PHP as a CGI binary

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:14:03AM +0200, Benjamin Fay wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I guess i will have no luck installing pmwiki on a server that is using PHP as 
> a CGI binary. I get the following error as soon as i want to edit a page:
> *******
> Security Alert! The PHP CGI cannot be accessed directly. 
> This PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect enabled. This means 
> that a page will only be served up if the REDIRECT_STATUS CGI variable is 
> set, e.g. via an Apache Action directive.
> ******

If it's giving you this error when you want to edit the page (but not
when you first view it), I suspect it means that $ScriptUrl is not 
being set properly to point to the pmwiki.php script.  Try explicitly
setting $ScriptUrl in the config.php and see if that resolves the problem.

Pm