[pmwiki-users] Creating new pages

[Tegan Dowling]

On 5/22/06, T.G. Mutato <throw6617 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Creating New Pages pages documentation found at
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/CreatingNewPages says, "Another way to
> create a page: in your browser's address bar (where the page URL is),
> replace the name of the current page with the name of the page you wish to
> create, and hit Enter or do whatever you would normally do to go to a new
> location. PmWiki will then dutifully tell you that the page you entered
> doesn't exist, but you can click on the "Edit" link in order to create,
> edit, and save the new page."
>
> Unfortunately, this does not appear to be the case, at least not for
> PmWiki running on IIS (Windows Server 2003 with php engine installed). In
> this case, if you're sitting at the existing page,
> http://host/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage and you replace "HomePage"
> with "Test" to change the link to http://host/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Test
> , after pressing enter, you're taken to the browser's Error 404 page and
> there is no Edit link to click.
>
> Has anyone else run into this and found a way to work around it?
>
I don't know about the cause or a fix, but a work-around is (should be) to
change http://host/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage to
http://host/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Test?action=edit<http://host/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Test>

HTH.
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