[pmwiki-users] Clean URLs (Another question from the newbie)

[Tom Hayden]

Eric,
	After going over everything you suggested, I finally went to the 
httpd.conf file and began looking through it. After scanning back and 
forth several times I came across the following section:

# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory /var/www/>

I changed it to:

<Directory /website/>

to match DocumentRoot /website

And everything worked fine.

If you had not suggested checking the server configuration, I might 
never have found this. Thanks for your help.


Eric Celeste wrote:
> The only other problem I see is potentially the leading "/" on the 
> rewritten address. In other words, all the "/singles" below should 
> probably be "singles" instead (assuming "singles" is not actually at the 
> root of your hard disk).
> 
> Really, to debug this would require more detailed information using only 
> full paths.
> 
> What is the full path of your pmwiki install?
> (for example "/home/efc/www/pmwiki/pmwiki.php")
> 
> What is the URL you would like to be "home" for your wiki?
> (for example " http://mydomain.org/Main/HomePage")
> 
> What is the full path of your ".htaccess" file?
> (for example "/home/efc/www/.htaccess")
> 
> Assumption: your server is configured so that a request of a page from 
> your domain actually reaches your .htaccess file.
> 
> ...Eric
> 
> On 12/4/07, *Sameer Kumar* <skumar at eharch.com 
> <mailto:skumar at eharch.com>> wrote:
> 
>      
> 
>     <Snip>
>     Following the directions in the clean URL cookbook I set up my .htaccess
>     file in /website as follows:
> 
>     # Use mod_rewrite to enable "Clean URLs" for a PmWiki installation.
>     RewriteEngine On
>     # The rewrite base will be the document root.
>     RewriteBase /website
>     # Send requests without parameters to pmwiki.php.
>     RewriteRule ^$           /singles/pmwiki.php  [L]
>     # Send requests for index.php to pmwiki.php .
>     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /singles/pmwiki.php  [L]
>     # Don't rewrite requests for any files, directories, or symbolic
>     # links (shortcuts) that exist on the filesystem.
>     # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
>     # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
>     # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l # Send requests to pmwiki.php,
>     appending the query string part.
>     RewriteRule ^([A-Z0-9\xa0-\xff].*)$ /singles/pmwiki.php?n=$1  [QSA,L]
> 
>     I set up my /website/singles/local/config.php file as follows:
> 
>     <?php if (!defined('PmWiki')) exit();
>     ## Use "Clean URLs".
>     $EnablePathInfo = 1;
>     $ScriptUrl = " http://localhost";
>     ## more configuration settings...
> 
>     <snip>
> 
>     I believe you want the RewriteBase to be the root as served rather
>     than the root as stored. Try "RewriteBase /" instead.
> 
>     Note, the should also allow " http://localhost" without the
>     "index.php" to bring up your site.
> 
>     Also, for this to work your Apache server on the localhost must have
>     mod_rewrite activated. You might want to check to be sure this is
>     the case.
> 
>     ...Eric
> 
>     <snip>
> 
>     Eric,
> 
>     I have exactly the same situation as Tom's description above and I
>     have the .htaccess file in my root directory. I have followed all
>     the instructions that I have found (my htaccess file looks exactly
>     the same as above) and can also confirm that mod_rewrite is also
>     activated for my Apache install.
> 
>     However, I cannot get rid of a "?n=" from my URLs. For example, my
>     URLs read as:
> 
>     http://hip.eharch.com/?n=Materials/Materials
> 
>     instead of
> 
>     http://hip.eharch.com/Materials/Materials
> 
>     which I would prefer.
> 
>     Would you have any ideas or suggestions regarding getting rid of the
>     "?n=" ?
> 
>     Thanks. Sameer
> 
>      
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
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