[Pmwiki-users] strange paths

[Patrick R. Michaud]

Marcus-

Alas, not all servers/web hosting providers support the PATH_INFO
syntax that allows information to appear after a script name. 
This is especially true in environments where PHP is being run
as a CGI script instead of as an embedded apache module.  A full
description of the problem is available at http://www.pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users_pmichaud.com/2004-April/004365.html -- highly recommended
reading for this problem.

The first thing to do (after reading the above) is to try setting 
$EnablePathInfo=1 in your config.php file.  This will tell PmWiki to 
format links in the form path/to/pmwiki.php/GroupName/PageName instead 
of the ?pagename= format, which PmWiki has chosen to use because it
thinks that the first form isn't likely to work.  Setting $EnablePathInfo=1
overrides PmWiki's "guess".

However, just because PmWiki can generate links to pages in the
form path/to/pmwiki.php/GroupName/PageName, that doesn't mean that the
webserver will accept them as such.  If clicking on such a link results
in a 404 Page Not Found error, then the webserver isn't configured
to handle PATH_INFO, and this is largely outside of PmWiki's ability
to do anything with it without some outside help or tricks borrowed
from http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/PmWiki/ChangePmWikiURL.

I'll be glad to help troubleshoot things in any way that I can.
I'd need to see the results of setting $EnableDiag=1 and executing
pmwiki.php with the ?action=diag option.

Pm


On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:16:07AM +0200, Marcus Brauer wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I set up a local PmWiki with Apache 1.3.28 (XP) with PHP 4.3.2 and got
> URLs to my wiki pages like this: path/to/pmwiki.php/GroupName/PageName
> 
> Then I uploaded my site to a remote webserver in the internet. I don't
> have access to the central webservers config file. On this remote host
> it's an Apache 1.3.29 (Unix) with PHP 4.2.3.
> 
> Without changing a single byte(!), no paths worked. Now the system
> expects paths like: path/to/pmwiki.php?pagename=GroupName.PageName
> 
> Why is that and how can I work around and get back my old paths?
> It's a pity, that even the relative paths don't work. I don't have
> access to the central 'httpd.conf' file on this server.
> 
> Found your http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/PmWiki/ChangePmWikiURL, but it
> didn't help me.
> 
> 
> Best Regards
> Marcus
> 
> 
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