[pmwiki-users] Clean URLs - get rid of "Main"

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:58:27PM +0200, Mike wrote:
> Thanks for the advice! I tried it, but there was no impact at all -
> everything works, but works the same way as it used to.
> 
> By the way, my pages actually ARE reachable also if the default group
> name is left out, but there is a redirection taking place.

Setting $EnableFixedUrlRedirect=0; is supposed to prevent this
redirect from happening, but I'll have to look into it a bit 
further and make sure that's the case.

However, I think there must be something else going on, because
you should've at least seen *some* change -- even if the system
stopped working altogether.  Is there a url I could look at?

Pm


> Patrick R. Michaud wrote on 12.04.2006 13:50:
> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:18:43PM +0200, Mike wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I haven't been following all the latest developments (past few months)
> >>around IMatch, so please forgive if this question has been answered in
> >>the meantime: Is there a way now to get what I call "totally clean URLs"
> >>for a pmwiki that does not use groups, such as
> >>
> >>www.server.com/MyFirstPage instead of www.server.com/Main/MyFirstPage?
> >>
> >>Ideally, I'd like to let the "Main" group vanish in any case - in my
> >>current pmwiki I have a "Main" group and another special-interest group,
> >>and my users complain that the URLs for the "Main" group are more
> >>complicated than those of other solutions...
> > 
> > 
> > Try this in your local/config.php (it probably won't work, but it's 
> > worth a try):
> > 
> >     $FmtPV['$PageUrl'] = 
> >       'PUE(($EnablePathInfo) ? "$ScriptUrl/$name" : "$ScriptUrl?n=$name")';
> >     $EnableFixedUrlRedirect = 0;
> > 
> > What it does:  It tells PmWiki to generate page urls using just
> > the name of the page, rather than the group+name.  
> > 
> > There are undoubtedly other places where PmWiki will betray the
> > existence of the "Main" group (e.g., in search results), but if
> > the above works then we can adjust those as we find them.
> > 
> > Pm
> > 
>