[pmwiki-users] pmwiki-users Digest, Vol 107, Issue 8

[Petko Yotov]

I've been using the URL rewriting method on many sites for many years.

Here is an example .htaccess file that may work for you:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^$       /wiki/pmwiki.php  [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^([A-Z0-9\x80-\xFF].*)$ /wiki/pmwiki.php?n=$1 [QSA,L]

This is like the Example 2 on the CleanUrls page, modified to match your  
directory name (wiki instead of pmwiki) and your lack of index.php file.

And, in config.php, set these variables:

# set clean urls hear.beckman.illinois.edu/Courses/ECE537
$EnablePathInfo = 1;
$ScriptUrl = 'http://hear.beckman.illinois.edu';

## uncomment below if skins/attached files seem broken
# $FarmPubDirUrl = $PubDirUrl = 'http://hear.beckman.illinois.edu/wiki/pub';
# $UploadUrlFmt = 'http://hear.beckman.illinois.edu/wiki/uploads';

Petko

Jont Allen writes:
> Dear Petko,
> I tried all the methods on
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/CleanUrls
>
> The alias method looked like it was going to work, but was unstable. I would  
> get an error, and then the skin was lost, and I had to turn off the alias to  
> recover. It also stopped rendering the LaTeX scripts.
> I just couldn't get it to be stable.
>
> In the end, the best I could do is
> http://hear.beckman.illinois.edu/?n=Courses.ECE537-2013SpeechProcessing
>
> There are two problems: I cannot get rid of "/n=" and
>   Courses.ECE537
> should have been
>   Courses/ECE537
>
> The . -> / is not a big deal, but I would really love to remove the "/n=" as  
> students will be confused by this syntax.
>
> The option
> $EnablePathInfo = 1;
> did not do it once I got rid of the /wiki/config.php/ part of the URL.
>
> Are there more robust methods of doing this?
>
> Jont Allen
>
>
>> Today's Topics:
>>
>>     1. Re: help with name resolution (Petko Yotov)
>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 19:50:48 +0200
>> From: Petko Yotov <5ko at 5ko.fr>
>> To: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
>> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] help with name resolution
>> Message-ID: <cone.1400521848.804036.26376.1000 at pc4>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset="UTF-8"
>>
>> Will any of the described methods on this page be of some interest?
>>
>>      http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/CleanUrls
>>
>> Petko
>>
>> Jont Allen writes:
>>> Dear pmwiki-users
>>> Im having a name resolution problem. I dont know if the problem is with php
>>> or apache.
>>>
>>>
>>> My wiki is at
>>> http://hear.beckman.illinois.edu/
>>>
>>> This method resolves a desired page:
>>> http://hear.beckman.illinois.edu/wiki/pmwiki.php?
>>> n=Courses.ECE537-2013SpeechProcessing
>>>
>>> But when I try to resolve the same page this way:
>>> http://hear.beckman.illinois.edu/wiki/Courses/ECE5372013SpeechProcessing
>>>
>>> it fails with an apache2 error
>>> requested URL /wiki/Courses/ECE5372013SpeechProcessing was not found on this
>>> server.
>>>
>>> The wiki is installed at:
>>> /var/www/wiki/
>>>
>>> /var/www/wiki# ls
>>> cookbook  docs  index.php  local  LS-LR  pmwiki.php  pub  scripts TODO.txt
>>> uploads  uploads.tgz  wiki.d  wikilib.d
>>>
>>> ls -l wiki.d/Courses.ECE537-2013SpeechProcessing
>>> gives the content file:
>>> /var/www/wiki# ls -l wiki.d/Courses.ECE537-2013SpeechProcessing
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109610 Dec 25 22:32
>>> wiki.d/Courses.ECE537-2013SpeechProcessing
>>>
>>> On to /etc/apache2:
>>> the config file says:
>>>
>>> <Directory /var/www/wiki/>
>>>                   Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>>>                   AllowOverride None
>>>                   Order allow,deny
>>>                   allow from All
>>>           </Directory>
>>>
>>> <Directory /var/www/wiki.d/>
>>>                   Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>>>                   AllowOverride None
>>>                   Order allow,deny
>>>                   allow from All
>>>           </Directory>
>>>
>>>    <Directory /var/www/wiki/Courses/ECE5372013SpeechProcessing/>
>>>                   Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>>>                   AllowOverride None
>>>                   Order allow,deny
>>>                   allow from All
>>>           </Directory>
>>>
>>> I did:
>>> /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
>>>    * Restarting web server apache2
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong
>>> Is this a pmwiki or apache2 problem?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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