[pmwiki-users] A couple of newbie questions

Brent Zupp atticus4 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 17:48:09 CDT 2005


Regarding #5 upload problem, after upgrading to 2.0.10, I had to update the
permissions on one of my upload directories in order to get it working
again. Not sure how it changed but...

Best,
Brent



On 10/5/05, Charles Bruen <cabruen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello --
>
> I have been quiet for the past couple of months getting the feel for
> PmWiki and laying down the architecture of my site (1671 pages so far,
> all
> created by hand).
>
> http://medicalfieldnotes.com
>
> I absolutely love the program you have created. Thank you so much for
> all
> of the hard work that has gone into it.
>
> In my experimentation though, I have come across several things which I
> don't understand.
>
> 1. On my all of my {Group}.HomePage I have a link in the SideBar that
> is
> something like this: [[SideBar?action=edit | Edit SideBar]]. This works
> fine for all of my group HomePages. It allows me to click and edit that
> group's SideBar. However when I am on the Main.HomePage, instead of
> editing Main.SideBar, I would rather open Site.SideBar for editing
> since
> it is the default SideBar of the PmWiki. Is this possible.
>
> 2. When I do a search, I almost always get a timeout error. Is this due
> to
> the large number of pages I have in my wiki. Am I approaching the upper
> limit for PmWiki. I am projecting that that when completed we may have
> ~4000 pages.
>
> 3. I have my wiki setup with clean urls according to the cookbook
> directions with
>
> $ScriptUrl = 'http://medicalfieldnotes.com';
> $PubDirUrl = 'http://medicalfieldnotes.com/pub/';
> $EnablePathInfo = 1;
>
> and the following .htaccess file instructions
>
> Options +FollowSymLinks
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^/?$ /Main/HomePage [R=permanent,QSA,L]
> RewriteRule ^([^/a-z].*) pmwiki.php?n=$1 [QSA,L]
>
> My question is this, when I type in an arbitrary address such as
> http://medicalfieldnotes.com/junk.html PmWiki does not return a 404
> code,
> but rather puts me on page Group.Name. This is rather annoying for
> things
> like Google Sitemaps and others. In my user statistics one of my most
> accessed files is Group.Name which obviously does not exist. Have I set
> something up incorrectly or is there a way to make PmWiki avoid this
> behavior.
>
> 4. Is there a way to create hyperlinks in the (:title :) of a page. For
> example I have pages like this
>
> (:title generic-drug-name (trade-drug-name) :)
>
> I would like to create a hyperlink on the trade-drug-name to the
> pharmaceutical company's offfical website.
>
> 5. When I upgraded to 2.0.10, my uploads are no longer working. I don't
> have much information to go on yet, but I thought I would add that data
> point.
>
> Thank you very much again for everything. Happy Wiki'ing.
>
> -- Charles Bruen
>
>
>
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