[pmwiki-users] I need help with clean URLs

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*** HAGAN SAID:

> Your wiki is not in fact in the document root,
> but in a pmwiki/ subdirectory. (That's better!)

Yes, I had it in my doc root at first, but then took your advice to move
it to it's own folder.

> The document root is one directory above the wiki's
> directory.  This means you have something similar to
> 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/CleanUrls#dir_above
> 
> except the rewritebase is / .
> 
> Try these:
> 
> # Use mod_rewrite to enable "Clean URLs" for a PmWiki installation.
> RewriteEngine On
> # Define the rewrite base.  It's not necessarily PmWiki's directory.
> RewriteBase /
> # Send requests without parameters to pmwiki.php.
> RewriteRule ^$           pmwiki/pmwiki.php  [L]
> # Send requests for index.php to pmwiki.php.
> RewriteRule ^index\.php$ pmwiki/pmwiki.php  [L]
> # Send requests to pmwiki.php, appending the query string part.
> RewriteRule ^([^/a-z].*) pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=$1  [QSA,L]
> 
> <?php if (!defined('PmWiki')) exit();
> ## Use "Clean URLs".
> $EnablePathInfo = 1;
> $ScriptUrl = "http://www.howtofreaks.com";
> ## more configuration settings...

This is precisely what I'm already using. The result, unfortunately, is
that the links point to clean URLs, but I get a 404 on them.


*** PICO SAID:

> My hunch is that you have "Pmwiki.php" (with a 
> capital P) and that if you renamed the file to 
> start with a lowercase "p" everything might start
> working.

Actually, my "pmwiki.php" file was all lowercase.

> So, on a hunch, I tried capitalizing the P in Pmwiki.php,
> like this
> 
> http://www.howtofreaks.com/Pmwiki.php?n=Main.WikiSandbox
> 
> and *it worked*  I got your WikiSandBox page.

It's true that the URL:

http://www.howtofreaks.com/pmwiki.php?n=Main.WikiSandbox

does not work, while:

http://www.howtofreaks.com/Pmwiki.php?n=Main.WikiSandbox 

does work, but actually *any* word beginning with a capitol letter will
work, for example:

http://www.howtofreaks.com/ScoobyDoo.php?n=Main.WikiSandbox 

Here are some others that work:
http://www.howtofreaks.com/index.php?n=Main.WikiSandbox 
http://www.howtofreaks.com/?n=Main.WikiSandbox 
http://www.howtofreaks.com/?n=Main/WikiSandbox 

I tried commenting out "$EnablePathInfo = 1;", and the links started
pointing to URLs like:

http://www.howtofreaks.com/?n=Main.WikiSandbox

just like you said.

*** TONY SAID:

> If you put pmwiki.php at $DOCROOT rather than $DOCROOT/pmwiki,
> shouldn't the .htaccess file be:
> 
> # Use mod_rewrite to enable "Clean URLs" for a PmWiki installation.
> RewriteEngine On
> # Define the rewrite base.
> RewriteBase /
> # Send requests without parameters to pmwiki.php.
> RewriteRule ^$           pmwiki.php  [L]
> # Send requests for index.php to pmwiki.php.
> RewriteRule ^index.php$  pmwiki.php  [L]
> # Send requests to pmwiki.php, appending the query string part.
> RewriteRule ^([^/a-z].*) pmwiki.php?n=$1  [QSA,L]
> 
> as opposed to having "pmwiki/pmwiki.php" in the three RewriteRule
> lines? 

If you have pmwiki.php in the root document folder (which I did at
first), then yes, but I have mine in a folder named "pmwiki". I've been
advised that it's not the best idea to have your pmwiki installation in
the root folder.

Thanks,
Phil

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