[pmwiki-users] Putting ".html" extensions onto pages

H. Fox haganfox at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Mar 2 01:41:56 CST 2006


On 3/1/06, Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org> wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud schrieb:
> I meant to write this:
> URLs starting with a lowercase letter in the a-z range are non-PmWiki
> URLs, everything else is a PmWiki page.
>
>  > (The newer version
> > of the CleanUrls recipe tends to look for the existence of a targeted
> > file or directory to decide if the request should be passed along
> > to PmWiki.)

That understates it a bit.  If a requested file or directory exists,
PmWiki will not receive the request because these two rule conditions
precede the rewrite rule:

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}   !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}   !-d

> I'd recommend against looking what files are there and deciding what to
> do later. Say you have a page named LICENSE, and a new version of PmWiki
> place a LICENSE file in the installation directory...

A wikipage named SomeGroup.LICENSE would not be affected by placing a
file named LICENSE in the installation directory.

I don't see this becoming a problem.  At worst you'd need to add a
special rewrite rule.

> IMHO, it's better if the namespace is clearly divided: lowercase letters
> for stuff served from the file system, everything else goes to PmWiki.
> (With the obvious exceptions associated with $EnableDirectDownload.)

It doesn't work very well when PmWiki is installed on a server that
already contains files and directories that start with
other-than-lower-case letters.

I know this from experience.  I had several .txt files with CamelCase
filenames on the Qdig site before I switched over to PmWiki.  The old
rewrite rules broke some URLs, so links that existed in the forums no
longer reached the files they originally reached.

Even for a site starting afresh it can be inconvenient, not to mention
confusing, to prohibit serving files or directories with names that
begin with capital letters or numbers.

Hagan




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