[pmwiki-users] mod_rewrite question

[rene beekman]

On Feb 06, 2006, at 02:06, H. Fox wrote:

> On 2/5/06, rene beekman <r at raakvlak.net> wrote:
>> i tried 2 recipes from NewCleanUrlsRecipe, n.l. example one and 
>> example
>> three.
> [...]
>> i checked httpd.conf and mod_rewrite is enabled, although 
>> allowoverride
>> is set to none. i tried setting it to all, switched off and back on
>> websharing to restart apache, but that didn't seem to make any
>> difference...
>
> What happens when you browse
>
>     http://computername.local/path/directly/to/your/wiki/local/

ok, the path to pmwiki is:
(and this is under mac os 10.3.9)
/Users/<username>/Sites/pmwiki/

so, trying your suggestion;
http://computername.local/Users/<username>/Sites/pmwiki/
generates a 404

anything other than;
http://computername.local/~<username>/pmwiki
generates a 404

> in other words, try to browse the URL path to your local/ directory.
> That directory has a restrictive .htaccess file in it.  If you don't
> get a "Forbidden" error, then .htaccess isn't having any effect.

so no "forbidden" error

what does seem to be happening when i follow the NewCleanUrlsRecipe 
recipes is that links to
http://localhost/~<username>/pmwiki/main/homepage
get changed to
http://localhost/main/homepage
when following recipe #3
similarly i can change the links in the way suggested in recipe #1

the only problem is, when i then click on that link, i get a 404
"main/homepage not found on this server"

probably i'm not understanding something extremely basic and simple 
here, but any pointers in the right direction would be greatly 
appreciated.

thanks!

rene