[pmwiki-users] FW: FW: Installation Question: How to point web server topmwiki.php script on the server?

[Peter K.H. Gragert]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: pmwiki-users-bounces at pmichaud.com [mailto:pmwiki-users-
> bounces at pmichaud.com] Namens Karina
> Verzonden: maandag 7 mei 2007 0:45
> Aan: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> Onderwerp: Re: [pmwiki-users]FW: Installation Question: How to point web
> server topmwiki.php script on the server?
> 
> Peter K.H. Gragert <p.k.h.gragert <at> skyaccess.nl> writes:
> 
> >
> > Hallo Karina,
> > The file pmwiki.php should not be renamed.
> > Rename it back with the help of an FTP-client (you used one to upload?!)
> > Next you should copy the file sample-config.php out of the doc directory
> > to the sibling directory local and rename it there to config.php.

[Peter K.H. Gragert] 
Please tell us your website address: www.????.??? Than we can help easier!
You said that pmwiki.php is in the top-level directory, let us indicate it
as /
So you should have this structure on your server:
/pmwiki.php (and you should type in your browser's addressfield
    http://whereyourwebsitelives/pmwiki.php to activate your wiki!)
    whereyourwebsitelives ist NATURALLY something like www.google.com not 
    Google but yours! See above!)
/local/config.php
/doc/sample-config.php (so this file you renamed and copied it to / but it 
       must be in /local !!!!)
/wikilib.d/.... ( a lot of files)
/wiki.d/... (will be created if you create new pages in your wiki!)
/pub/... (here scripts and the skins etc. are living)
... (not interesting at this moment)

> > This file is the heart for an administrator!
> > So download it and edit it with an ASCII editor (wordpad, vi, or ...)
> > Read the comments and remove the #'s , which make a LINE to comment (in
> > PHP).
> > You should at least change the files
> > $ScriptUrl = 'http://localhost/pmwikis/55plus_070503/pmwiki.php';
> > $PubDirUrl = 'http://localhost/pmwikis/55plus_070503/pub';

[Peter K.H. Gragert] 
Look above!

> > This is for my local tests, so you have to replace localhost/pmwikis
> (see
> > YOUR config.php to understand by comparing!) to your website and
> > place=directory, where pmwiki.php lives!

[Peter K.H. Gragert] Please do the comparison!

> >
> > Important are too such lines as
> >
> > $DefaultPasswords['admin'] = crypt('replacemebyyourpassword!');
> > $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = crypt('passwordforediting');
> >
> > To undestand this , read the security info of the wiki!
> >
> > This line I love too:
> > $EnablePathInfo = 1;
> > This changes something like http://..../pmwiki.php?n=Main.Homepage
> > Into http://..../pmwiki.php/Main/Homepage
> >
> > This should make you going!
> > Bye

> 
> Thank you for your reply, I am still having a couple of problems, even tho
> I
> have managed to move a snails pace further...:)
> I really am not a techie person and my knowledge is very basic, so this
> stuff
> always takes me a really long time. Thank you for your time.
> 
> -I renamed the file:"sample-config.php" to "config.php" and took it out of
> the
> doc directory.  Do I bring it up to the root directory, (i.e. place the
> config
> right next to my "pmwiki" file?  Or do I put it within the "pmwiki" file,
> next
> to the "cookbook, docs, local, pub" etc. files?
> 

[Peter K.H. Gragert] 
Only uncomment (for this moment) the indicated lines to start!
Indeed as Neil said in an other post, uncomment only what you understand,
but those I indicated are more or less necessary to get you going.

> -And then I went (uncommented out too)to the
> $ScriptUrl &
> $PubDirUrl sections
> 
> for $ScriptUrl:
> tried: http://www.mydomain.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php  (didn't work)
> tried: 'http://www.mydomain.com/pmwiki/55plus_070503/pmwiki.php'
> 

[Peter K.H. Gragert] 
See above. Give us the address of your web server or trying an example
Suppose your website lives at http://www.karina.com
then those lines should become:
$ScriptUrl = 'http://www.karina.com/pmwiki.php';
$PubDirUrl = 'http://www.karina.com/pub';
OK?

> same with the $PubDirURL, still no luck.
> 
> Do you know what I am doing wrong.  I wish I was a bit more savvy at these
> things so I didn't have to ask such basic questions.  I apologize.
> 
> Best
> Karina
> p.s. (do I uncomment all the single "#" lines? as well?  Or just some of
> them?)
> 
> Also, I got a message I was top posting...How do I bottom post?  APOLOGIES
> for
> all the questions.
> Thanks
> Karina

[Peter K.H. Gragert] 
By the way Lines in config.php with ## in front of a line are meant as
comment, meaning do not remove ever ;-)
These lines document a line with only one # at the beginning

Greetings
        PKHG