[pmwiki-users] flunking at farming

[Ian Barton]

First of all, do you have access to somewhere on your web server that 
isn't web accessible? In other words somewhere you cannot access via a 
browser. If so this is probably the best place for your "base" PmWiki 
install.

jeb eddy wrote:

> http://www.wigl.com/jeb1/pmwiki.php
> 
> Nothing there of interest yet, just practicing.
> 
> In the same local/ directory as config.php for my home site, I have 
> created a file named "farmconfig.php", containing:
> 
> <?php if (!defined('PmWiki')) exit();
> $FarmPubDirUrl = 'http://www.wigl.com/jeb1/pub';
> 
This should be OK so far.

> 
> I see that the permissions for local/config.php are 777.  Maybe I 
> should change that before long, but I'm not clear on what the 
> settings should be; I'll leave it as is for now.
> 
> Anyway, seeing 777, I set farmconfig.php to the same.
> 
This probably only needs to be readable by the web server and writeable 
by the admin. However, leaving it at 777 shouldn't affect how PmWiki works.

> 
> At the same level as my home wiki (home = http://www.wigl.com/jeb1/), 
> I have created a folder jf333/, with 755.  (These permissions match 
> those of my home wiki folder, jeb1/.)
> 
> 
> In this jf333/ folder, I have created a file "index.php" containing only:
> 
> <?php include('../jeb1/pmwiki.php');
> 
This should probably be:
<?php include('../jeb1/pmwiki.php'); ?>

I assume the missing ?> is a typo in your email.

> First of all, the URL gets changed to:  http://wigl.com/jf333/
> 
> i.e., the "www" disappears.
> 
> 
> =========================================
> Question:
> Is this what should happen?
> =========================================
> (I'd appreciate a short explanation of why it happens, too.  I have 
> no idea why some URLs require 'www" and some do not.  I  thought it 
> was related to the amount of money some companies pay to the web 
> administrators in the sky...)
> 
> 
I think this may be related to your Apache configuration. The www prefix 
isn't required for a website. The only thing you require is the resource 
identifier (http://). The www bit is a sort of convention.
> 
> OK, I get the standard default Pmwiki home page.
> 
> 

Good!

> When I click "edit", I get:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> "The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was 
> unable to complete your request.
> 
Do you have access to your server log. There may be more information in 
there.

> Good news, however, is that a wiki.d directory has been created in 
> jf333, containing only one file:      .flock .
> 
> I  changed the permissions on that directory to 777.  Still no success.
> 
One thing I would try is to explicitly set the path to your farm's home 
directory in your index.php:

<?php include('/var/www/jeb1/pmwiki.php');

Note you will need to determine the path yourself, the above is only an 
example. If you are on a Linux server and have shell access typing pwd 
at a shell prompt will tell you the path of your current dirctory.

> =====
> Almost last Question:  Are browser buffers a possible source of my trouble?
> =====
> 
Probably not.
> 
> 
> 
> Finally, under the heading "Customization" on the WikiFarms 
> documentation page, the instructions describe a variable, $FarmD.
> 
This is defined by PmWiki itself and is the directory of your base 
PmWiki install. You can use it as a shortcut in config files e.g.:

include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/recipe"):

It saves typing the full path to the directory. Note it does have other 
uses and is used internally by PmWiki.