[pmwiki-users] help needed - URL structure (take 2 :)

[Constantin Basturea]

(Short recap: my host changed the settings for PHP, so it runs like me,
rather than as the web server. This caused a change in the structure of
URLs, and I'm trying to get back to the "old" structure now.)

I was in contact with the guys that are hosting my wiki, and they found a
bug in the program that sits in between their web server and PHP (it relies
on the fact that the last slash (/) in a URL should come right before the
php script's filename).

They fixed the bug, so now the "old" URL for my homepage is now working:
http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Home

But the problem is still not solved: the default setting for all the page is
still the one with ?pagename.

Is there something I can do to correct this?

Thank you!

Constantin

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 <http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Home>
On 9/29/05, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:00:18PM -0400, Constantin Basturea wrote:
> > > I'm guessing that one or more of the following has happened:
> > > - Apache was upgraded (e.g., from 1.3 to 2.0)
> > > - PHP was upgraded
> > > - The Apache or PHP configuration has been changed
> > > - PHP has been switched to run in "CGI" mode instead of as an
> > > Apache handler
> >
> > I asked my webhost if they made any changes in Apache/PHP
> > version/settings, and here's what he responded:
> >
> > "PHP now runs as you, rather than as the web server. This means files
> > created by PHP will be owned by you. It also means that if you need to
> > store your MySQL (and hence your main account) password in a file in
> > order to connect to a database, you can store it in a file that's only
> > readable by you. This is an important security measure."
>
> They are absolutely correct that this is an important security
> improvement -- I wish more sites would do this.
>
> However, it appears that in changing the Apache settings that
> the PATH_INFO component of urls is no longer working per the
> CGI 1.1 specification. The PATH_INFO part of CGI means that
> given a url such as
>
> http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Home
>
> the value "/Main/Home" is placed in the PATH_INFO environment
> variable when the CGI script (pmwiki.php) is called. Unfortunately,
> the current Apache settings on your server seem to be refusing to
> serve up the url at all and are simply returning a blank document.
>
> Often this can be fixed in Apache 2.0 by setting the AcceptPathInfo
> directive to "On" in the apache configuration -- without this
> Apache 2 will generally return a "404 Not Found" for urls containing
> PATH_INFO data. If that doesn't work (or isn't an option),
> then we'll need to see about using mod_rewrite to get things to
> work.
>
> Pm
>
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