[pmwiki-users] Change PMWIKI folder and default file name?

Neil Herber nospam at mail.eton.ca
Sun Feb 27 18:29:11 CST 2005


At 2005-02-26  11:11 PM -0700, H. Fox is rumored to have said:
>I see your server is running Red Hat Linux.  A better idea wold be to
>leave the pmwiki.php file as-is and create a symbolic link to it.
>
>ln -s pmwiki.php index.php
>
>The reason is because when you upgrade PmWiki a new pmwiki.php file
>will be copied to the directory.  If you have renamed pmwiki.php to
>index.php you'll be using the "pmwiki.php" from the old release with
>other files from the new one.  Creating a symlink avoids that problem.

Another way to avoid the "out-of-date" PmWiki problem is the one used on 
Wiki farms. Create a file called index.php with these contents:
         <?php
         include('pathto/pmwiki/pmwiki.php');
         ?>
Works in WIndoze too!


Neil

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