[Pmwiki-users] Dumb question about paths

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:07:45PM +0000, Tim Duckett wrote:
> I've just installed pmwiki, but I'm falling over at the first hurdle -
> it's failing with an error
> 
>   PmWiki can't process your request
>   'wikis/pmwiki/pmwiki.php' is not a valid PmWiki page name
>   We are sorry for any inconvenience.
> 
> That's after trying to load www.domain.net/wikis/pmwiki/pmwiki.php
> 
> I've got it installed under the www.domain.net/wikis/pmwiki/ directory,
> so I'm guessing that I have to mod the pmwiki.php file somewhere - but
> the various options I've tried haven't worked as yet.  Could anyone
> advise what and where I need to change??

Actually, you shouldn't need to modify pmwiki.php--there must be something
else happening here.  What http software (incl version number) are you using?
It appears that your web server is setting the PATH_INFO environment 
variable incorrectly when running the pmwiki script--I've seen this happen
once before.

What error do you get when trying to go to the page
   www.domain.net/wikis/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
?

Pm