[pmwiki-users] Getting pages created by other software to appear in category lists

Peter Payzant pce at accesswave.ca
Mon Oct 28 20:21:06 CDT 2013


Hm- there doesn't appear to be any file by that name in my PmWiki 
installation. Might you be thinking of the .pageindex file?

Peter


On 2013-10-28 10:16 PM, ccox at endlessnow.com wrote:
> Delete the pagecache file.
>
> Sent from my HTC EVO 4G LTE exclusively from Sprint
>
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Peter Payzant" <pce at accesswave.ca>
> To: <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
> Subject: [pmwiki-users] Getting pages created by other software to 
> appear in category lists
> Date: Mon, Oct 28, 2013 7:49 PM
>
>
> Patrick, thanks for your reply.
>
> As an experiment, I simply used the Linux "touch" command on both 
> wiki.d/.lastmod and my synthetic wiki page. I'm afraid that didn't 
> work - the category page still doesn't see the synthetic page.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 2013-10-28 7:34 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 06:06:29PM -0300, Peter Payzant wrote:
> >> I'm creating one page with a daily Perl program, and in general
> >> everything works as expected. However, I can't get this page to show
> >> up in a category list.
> >> [...]
> >> However, this page does not appear on the page
> >> Category.BoardDocuments. Dozens of other pages created the normal
> >> way, by editing in PmWiki, do appear in the category list.
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong?
> > The indexes aren't being notified that there's a new page that might
> > need scanning.
> >
> > Simply have your Perl script also touch/update the .lastmod file in
> > wiki.d/, and the categories should start seeing your automatically
> > generated page(s).
> >
> > In Perl the following will work to update the timestamp of .lastmod:
> >
> >      open(my $fh, ">", "wiki.d/.lastmod");
> >      close($fh);
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Pm
> >
>
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