[Pmwiki-users] Q: separate cgi-bin and html forlders

[Alexander Babanov]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> You do realize, of course, that PmWiki shouldn't have to be installed
> in a cgi-bin folder to work...  you should be able to install it in
> your WWW folder without any problem if your web hosting provider
> has PHP installed correctly.  PmWiki (and most PHP programs) don't
> have to be installed in the cgi-bin directory.

You're right, I created a sample <?php phpinfo(); ?> file in a WWW 
folder and it runs just fine. I guess I'll just move all scripts there 
and call it a day ~:-)

> OTOH, if it's working for you now, no real reason to change it.  :-)

Well, apparently it doesn't ,-) Sure, given some set of assumptions it 
does, but as soon as you make one step away - it doesn't. Here is one 
more example (this is before moving scripts and pages together):

I added include_once("scripts/sessionauth.php"); line to local.php as 
you suggested. Now, when I click "Edit", I get an authentication prompt. 
So far so good. I edit the page, click "Preview" and get another 
authentication form. Weird, but I get weirder things than this free in 
my breakfast cereal[1] Now, I enter the password again and, wadda you 
know, here comes the original page with no changes recorded. Bummer ;-D

By the way, I downloaded the group's archive and found a few question of 
the kind. Doesn't seem to be a common problem, but it sure feels great 
not to be alone =8-]

> Also, it wasn't clear from your message, but you can add the changes
> you made directly into local.php instead of having to modify the 
> pmwiki.php script (useful for when you upgrade to a newer version of
> PmWiki--no need to repatch the script).

What's what I do. Nice feature, really!

Ok, I'll go and shuffle the things around. Stay tuned for more 
dumb^Wexciting questions ;-)

Thanks! / Alex

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 03:36:11PM -0600, Alexander Babanov wrote:
> 
>>Good day, All,
>>
>>After a fair bit of research (and a year+ of struggle with PhpWiki/MySQL 
>>maintenance for my team's research project page) I decided to settle for 
>>PmWiki as a front-end for my wife's new homepage ;-) It sure looks like 
>>a nice and clean project, and the ability to specify different 
>>permissions for different groups and pages is a killer feature.
>>
>>Here, however, is where I ran into problems. My hosting provider has 
>>different folders for CGI scripts and web pages, say, /localdir/cgi and 
>>/localdir/WWW. They are visible to the world as http://thepage/cgi-bin/ 
>>and http://thepage/ respectively. So, I successfully installed PmWiki 
>>with the following small adjustments:
>>
>>$WikiDir = "/localdir/WWW/wiki.d";
>>$WikiLibDirs = array(&$WikiDir,"/localdir/WWW/wikilib.d");
>>$WikiImgUrl = "http://thepage/pmwiki-50.gif";
>>
>>At that point browsing and editing worked fine. Then I added the 
>>following lines to local.php:
>>
>>$DefaultPasswords['admin']=crypt('adminpass');
>>$DefaultPasswords['edit']=crypt('editpass');
>>
>>Now, every time I try to edit a page or change passwords, I get 
>>authentication prompt, which does not accept any of said passwords. Is 
>>there something I'm missing here?
>>
>>Thanks in advance! / Alex
>>
>>
>>
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