[pmwiki-users] A couple of newbie questions

Charles Bruen cabruen at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 5 17:56:53 CDT 2005


Thanks everyone for the quick fix. The fix required that I reset the
folder permissions and explicitly set $UploadUrlFmt (which I had left
at the default value before.)

Thanks again.

--- Brent Zupp <atticus4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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