[pmwiki-users] New installation of pmwiki in /home/user/public_html/ with apache and php7.2

[Christopher Pinon]

Hi,

It's me again.

On 2018-06-24 13:37, Christopher Pinon wrote:
> Server 2 (running Ubuntu 18.04 with apache and php7.2): I unpack the
> pmwiki archive in /home/user/public_html/ as "pmwiki" and assign
> ownership recursively to apache, which on Ubuntu amounts to "chown -R
> www-data:www-data pmwiki/". I then visit
> https://server.net/~user/pmwiki/pmwiki.php and I get a "404 Not Found"
> page, more specifically, the message is "The requested URL
> /~user/pmwiki/$pageurl was not found on this server." :-( So something
> isn't right.

Another question: how does $pageurl normally get its value?

> Question: Could this difference be due to php7.1 (on server 1) vs
> php7.2 (on server 2)?

To answer my own question: probably not.

> I originally thought that the difference was due to some difference in
> configuration of apache on the two servers, but if it is, I haven't
> yet been able to find the crucial difference in configuration. By the
> way, both servers are happily running Nextcloud without issues.

But just to clarify that Nextcloud isn't in /home/user/public_html/ .

> Another by the way: if I follow the same steps on server 2 but with
> the latest version of dokuwiki instead, dokuwiki works.

I've just double-checked this and can confirm.

C.