[pmwiki-users] protection against reading directories with truncated path

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:31:42PM +0200, Stephan Schildberg wrote:
> >You can actually have PmWiki return a 404 for non-existent pages:
> >
> >   if ($action == 'browse' && $pagename && !PageExists($pagename)) {
> >     header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
> >     print "Page Not Found\n";
> >     exit();
> >   }
> > 
> This works fine (thank you Patrick!), how can I link to a custom error 
> page, instead of the print command?
> The most elegant way of course would be a link to another pmwiki page 
> for me.

Ah, if you're wanting to stay within PmWiki, the easy way to do this
is to use the $DefaultPageTextFmt variable.  This variable contains
the markup text to be used when a non-existent page is requested.

So, to redirect to another pmwiki page, you can set:

    $DefaultPageTextFmt = '(:redirect Main.NoSuchPage:)';

which will redirect requests for non-existent pages to Main.NoSuchPage.

Or, if you simply want to display the contents of Main.NoSuchPage
without the redirection,  you can do:

    $DefaultPageTextFmt = '(:include Main.NoSuchPage:)';

This causes the browser to remain at the non-existent url.

Or, if you just want to put the markup text directly into
$DefaultPageTextFmt, you can do that:

    $DefaultPageTextFmt = 'Sorry, no such page.';

There are still other ways to do it, but these are among the easiest.

Pm