[pmwiki-users] Skin not found in farm

[Pico]

> From: "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com>
> 
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 08:02:14PM -0400, Pico wrote:
> > I installed a PmWiki farm on a new server and have separated the pub 
> > from the rest of the PmWiki files, where pub is web accessible but the 
> > rest of the files are in a directory that is not web accessible. 
> > 
> > Everything works fine until I try to change the skin, and then I get the 
> > following message:
> > 
> > PmWiki can't process your request
> > ?unable to find skin from list triad
> > We are sorry for any inconvenience.
> > 
> > I'll provide all the details if required, but first off, is there a 
> > common cause for this error?
> 
> By default, PmWiki looks in pub/skins/triad in both the current
> (field) directory and in the farm directory.
> 
> If the pub/ directory is somewhere other than these two locations,
> then the $SkinLibDirs array needs to be adjusted to tell PmWiki
> where to look for skins (and the corresponding url to use for each).
> 
> Personally, I find that it's easier to leave the pub/ directory
> in the farm and then create a symlink or webserver alias to 
> make that directory accessible over the web.  But either approach
> will work.
> 

Thank you.  I have lots of questions....

But I can spare you, for now, because it looks like many, if not all,
may be answered by Ben Wilson's excellent treatment of this subject in
Cookbook/WikiFarmAlternative.

So, in case this thread ends with this post, I wanted to make sure that
future readers know where I went to find answers to all my questions. 
Thnaks Ben.

Pico