[pmwiki-users] clean URLs for wikifarm in subdirectory

[Grorge J. De Bruin]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:23:00 -0600
"Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:

> > Problem: several configuration things want
URLs, such as farmmap.txt
> > and config.php.  Well, on the webserver they
start with
> > "http://arndis.godsong.org", and on my machine
they start with
> > "http://localhost".  Changing them back and
forth is a nuisance.  Is
> > there something I can do to tell these to use
the base URL plus
> > whatever, and to get the base URL from the
server?  What file would I
> > put that information in?
> 
> Well, in general you can get the base server URL
by doing the 
> following:
> 
>    $BaseUrl = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
> 
> However, I'm guessing there must be some reason
this doesn't work for 
> you.  In that case, the easiest thing to do is
to create special .php 
> files that hold any machine-specific settings,
and include them from 
> config.php.  For example, in your
local/config.php you could put:

Actually, I just ran into this problem too -- and
I was looking for a possibly better solution -- or
one that is nearly as graceful as the above idea
taken a step further...

What is needed is a way to use something like
$BaseUrl in the actual pages that are are being
written.  For example, look at one of the pages in
my Gallery section:
http://www.soundchasers.com/index.php?n=Gallery.CountrysideAnimals

For each row of images, I had to generate the
following PmWiki code:

|| [[AoC01 | The Ermine]] || [[AoC02 | The Great
Bat]] || [[AoC03 | The Frog]] ||
||
http://www.SoundChasers.com/uploads/Gallery/Animals_of_the_Countryside/thumb-Animals_of_the_Countryside_01a.jpg
||
http://www.SoundChasers.com/uploads/Gallery/Animals_of_the_Countryside/thumb-Animals_of_the_Countryside_02a.jpg
||
http://www.SoundChasers.com/uploads/Gallery/Animals_of_the_Countryside/thumb-Animals_of_the_Countryside_03a.jpg
||

This is fine for my hosting service where the
files are actually hosted for viewing online. 
However, in the copy that I am keeping on my local
system, it means going out to the website and
pulling down the images over a slow phone line
connection, and messing with the usage of the
website (until the images are cached).

IMO -- it would be ideal if we could do something
like:

|| [[AoC01 | The Ermine]] || [[AoC02 | The Great
Bat]] || [[AoC03 | The Frog]] ||
||
{$BaseUrl}/uploads/Gallery/Animals_of_the_Countryside/thumb-Animals_of_the_Countryside_01a.jpg
||
{$BaseUrl}/uploads/Gallery/Animals_of_the_Countryside/thumb-Animals_of_the_Countryside_02a.jpg
||
{$BaseUrl}/uploads/Gallery/Animals_of_the_Countryside/thumb-Animals_of_the_Countryside_03a.jpg
||

To make things a little more complicated: I
couldn't figure out a way to get an image to link
to another wiki page.  Personally, if it were
possible to do something like:

[[Gallery.AoC01 |
{$BaseUrl}/uploads/Gallery/Animals_of_the_Countryside/thumb-Animals_of_the_Countryside_01a.jpg]]

it would be extremely useful.  But, I couldn't
figure out a way to do either of these...  Is
there something that I am missing?

// George (Who's off to find a replacement for his
deceased laptop hard drive....)
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