[Pmwiki-users] ChangePmWikiURL / mod_rewrite

[J. Perkins]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> A lot of configuration issues have come across
> the listserv lately that come down to problems with
> the mod_rewrite modification suggested by
> http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/PmWiki/ChangePmWikiURL .

I'm using mod_rewrite here and I have no problems with the stock 0.6.9 
release. I thought I had added some notes to the ChangePmWikiURL page, 
but either they have scrolled off the history or I was just 
hallucinating. I have to admit that I find that page somewhat 
perplexing, as I am not sure exactly what problem it is trying to address.

I needed to remove the "pmwiki.php" from the URL (because I was trying 
to wikify an existing site and didn't want to break all of my links). 
I'm running on Linux/Apache (modwest.com).

I installed PmWiki as normal and made sure it was working. Then, in the 
directory where PmWiki is installed, I created an .htaccess file:

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule ^([A-Z].*) /os/path/to/pmwiki.php/$1 [L]

Then in my config.php, I added the line:

   $PageUrlFmt = '/$Group/$Title_';

Note that I did *not* change the value of $ScriptUrl, this is what 
breaks the upload and other features. I had a couple of directories 
containing non-wiki content, I was able to exempt them from the rewrite 
rule by inserting the following line before the RewriteRule:

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/path-to-ignore

And that's it! So far everything works great, including uploads.

I think the best approach is to clean up the documentation on the 
ChangePmWikiURL page. PmWiki seems to handle the redirection just fine.

Jason