[pmwiki-users] Generating incorrect URLs

[Rik Sarkar]

> Is there a url we could look at?  And perhaps you could set
> $EnableDiag=1; ?
Sure. url : http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rik/pmwiki/pmwiki.php
I have set $EnableDiag=1; at the begininng of pmwiki.php


> Out of curiosity, what version of PHP?
  4.2.3

Thanks!
Rik



On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 05:47:23PM -0500, Rik Sarkar wrote:
> > > This sounds to me as though PmWiki isn't being run from the correct
> > > directory.
> >
> > That was my guess too. But even setting the $ScriptUrl directly does not
> > help. The URLs generated now are correct, but it still does not
> > find the wiki.d directory and gives the error. It seems to me that while
> > the things accessed through url are fine, the access to the local file
> > system is a problem. Any simple way to fix that ? doing system('pwd')
> > returns correct values, and I ran the mkdirp() function in a trial script
> > of my own in the same directory, and it worked fine.
>
> Is there a url we could look at?  And perhaps you could set
> $EnableDiag=1; ?
>
> It's very odd that "system('pwd')" works, I'm wondering if the PHP
> on that system has been configured to block access to the filesystem
> somehow.  But I guess not if mkdirp() is running.
>
> Out of curiosity, what version of PHP?
>
> Pm
>
>
>
> > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 07:40:13PM -0500, Rik Sarkar wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Your guess was correct, the server is not setting HTTP_HOST, it works if
> > > > that is set. However, I am still stuck with it, because it does not work
> > > > when I set it in local/config.php. It works only when set in pmwiki.php.
> > > > Possibly, it is not reading the config.php.
> > > >
> > > > Also, I am getting errors from the mkdirp($dir) function saying that it
> > > > can't create wiki.d directory, though the directory exists with full
> > > > access.
> > >
> > > This sounds to me as though PmWiki isn't being run from the correct
> > > directory.  When the pmwiki.php script executes, it expects to be
> > > running in the directory that contains local/ and wiki.d/ .
> > > If the current directory is something else when pmwiki.php runs,
> > > it'll be quite confused (and try to create a new environment
> > > in whatever directory it happens to be in).
> > >
> > > Note that the current directory isn't necessarily the one containing
> > > pmwiki.php.  (For example, in farm installations, the current directory
> > > is the one containing the local wiki field, while the farm contains
> > > the pmwiki.php and other scripts.)
> > >
> > > Getting back to the original issue, I generally recommend against messing
> > > with HTTP_HOST or SCRIPT_NAME at all.  Simply set $ScriptUrl directly
> > > to whatever the url is supposed to be, rather than trying to figure
> > > it out (or have PmWiki figure it out) from whatever miscues are
> > > coming from the webserver.
> > >
> > > Pm
> > >
>