[Pmwiki-users] Can't do $EnablePathInfo = 1 ????

[Patrick R. Michaud]

It all depends intimately on the specific installation and
configuration that has been set up for your webserver and PHP
environment.  Some installations of PHP, especially when installed
using the CGI server API, simply cannot anything appearing in the URL
path after the PHP script itself (the PathInfo part).  PmWiki tries to
guess if the PathInfo ("clean") URLs might work and sets
$EnablePathInfo accordingly, but it sometimes guesses wrong.

It's probable that your web host can't handle having anything appear
after the name of the PHP script itself.  However, if you can run
cgi-bin scripts then there can sometimes be a workaround using a
wrapper script (let me know if you want to try this).

Pm


On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 11:08:16 PM, you wrote:

> OK, I'm doing a little more digging...

> pmwiki.php contains the following line:

> $EnablePathInfo = !preg_match("/^cgi/",php_sapi_name());

> And when I run phpinfo() on my webhost, it lists, among other things,
> "Server API: CGI".

> If I'm reading both of those things correctly (and I might not be), it
> sounds like I just won't be able to use "clean" URLs.

> Is that right?  And if so, why?  :)

> Thanks for any help,
> Rich Schmidt



> Rich Schmidt said:
>> Hi, all...
>>
>> For some reason, when I put $EnablePathInfo = 1; into local.php, I get
>> errors.  The URLs start doing what I want (pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
>> instead of pmwiki.php?pagename=Main.HomePage), but I get internal server
>> error 500 (or something).
>>
>> Is there some setting that's not right on the server?  An Apache setting
>> that our webhost could change?
>>
>> I've been trying to do the ChangePmWikiURL stuff, but it keeps crapping
>> out here...
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Rich Schmidt
>>
>> PS - I'm pretty sure that I'm not screwing up any of the steps. I have
>> the php files' syntax correct, the .htaccess files are correct (as far
>> as the instructions go, at least), etc.  That's why I'm wondering if
>> there's a server setting I'm missing.  Esp. since pmwiki seems to be
>> defaulting to $EnablePathInfo = 0.  At least it's behaving that way...
>>
>>
>>
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