[pmwiki-users] Path problem running in chroot'd environment

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 05:51:58PM -0600, brian at pongonova.net wrote:
> I'm trying to run pmWiki on an OpenBSD (3.4) box.  By default, apache
> runs in a chroot jail.  There was no response when I tried to access
> pmwiki/pmwiki.php for the first time...some investigation revealed
> that there seems to be an issue with the pathname returned by PHP's
> dirname function.  I manually set $FarmD in pmwiki.php to the "true"
> system pathname, and was able to at least get a page response.  But
> there are still path problems elsewhere; nothing renders correctly,
> and when there is an error message, it refers to the path relative to
> the chroot jail, not the absolute path.
> 
> Is anybody running pmWiki in a chroot jail?  What mods did you need to
> make to resolve the path discrepancies?  

If it's not rendering correctly, the problem may be with the
setting of $PubDirUrl (and possibly $FarmPubDirUrl).  

Is there a url we could view for this?

Pm