[pmwiki-users] {$UrlPage}

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:55:34PM +0100, David Jackson wrote:
> >The {$UrlPage} variable is set only if the page name given
> >isn't a valid pagename.  Since PmWiki considers "Main.testingPageNotFound"
> >to be a valid pagename, it doesn't set {$UrlPage}.
> >
> >There's a good argument to be made that this isn't the correct
> >behavior, but since I don't know a better one that's what we have
> >at the moment.
> > 
> >
> I've tried to find a non-valid pagename, but can't seem to find one!  
> All I get is the same issue or as Joshua said, describe page here.  Am I 
> being dim?  I'd like to set this so if some one clicks on a now 'non 
> existing' page in Google, they get this behaviour.

PmWiki never considers any page to be "not found" -- like many wikis
it treats a request for a non-existent page name to be an invitation
to create the page.  

However, it makes perfect sense to me that perhaps one would want a
non-existent page to produce a "404 Not Found" for certain applications.
I'll see about adding this as an option into the core.

Pm