[pmwiki-users] Adding .html . . .

Ben Wilson dausha at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 20:16:32 CDT 2006


But, there's a problem. It does not play well with page actions.
Anybody have a solution?

On 9/3/06, Ben Wilson <dausha at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently "lost" a client. I have to put it in quotes, because my web
> support was a short-term solution.[1] The replacement web support
> group provided a list of "deficiencies," which only they could repair.
> On "deficiency" was based in part on the web host server configuration
> preventing me from properly implementing Clean Urls. The new group
> said that Google could not handle dynamic content and only played well
> with URLs ending in .html. As you read this, I'm sure many of you
> chuckle becuase that's patently absurd. Heck, Google even plays well
> with unClean URLs.
>
> However, it got me to thinking that I would like to have the .html
> dangling from the end of my pages. If nothing else, just to show that
> it can be done easily in PmWiki should one desire it.
>
> In researching this, I noticed ResolvePageName() in pmwiki.php will
> remove trailing '.html', which allows pmwiki to simulate static .html
> pages.[2] I then noticed that two variables allow the PmWiki site to
> refer to its own pages with the trailing '.html'. What follows this
> paragraph is the reconfigured variables that allows the page.
>
> $LinkPageSelfFmt = "<a class='selflink' href='\$LinkUrl.html'>\$LinkText</a>";
> $LinkPageExistsFmt = "<a class='wikilink' href='\$LinkUrl.html'>\$LinkText</a>";
>
> I'm sure there's a Cookbook page on this, but I'm too lazy to look.
> So, I thought I'd just email this out instead in case anybody else is
> interested.
>
> Ben
>
> [1]: After all, I'm a law student, what business do I have of
> providing IT support?
> [2]: E.g. http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook.html
>


-- 
Ben Wilson
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man." HDT




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