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2002-01-11
2012-10-11
  • Mark Phillips

    Mark Phillips - 2002-01-11

    I am trying to set up a phpwiki on my sourceforge server. I followed the instrucitons in the index.php file for the VIRTUAL_HOST, but no luck.
    I have the following:

    1. Directory 'scripts' in /home/groups/j/jo/jospt (same level as the htdocs directory).

    2. 'phpwiki' directory in the 'scripts' directory with all the phpwiki stuff

    3. directory 'wikidocs' under htdocs with a file called .htaccess. htaccess contains the three lines:
    Action x-phpwiki-page /home/groups/j/jo/jospt/scripts/phpwiki/index.php
    SetHandler x-phpwiki-page
    DirectoryIndex /home/groups/j/jospt/scripts/phpwiki/index.php

    4. USE_PATH_INFO set to true in index.php

    5. VIRTUAL_PATH set to /wikidocs in index.php

    What eles do I need to change in the index.php file to make this work? Also, what permissions does the .htaccess file need?

    Thanks!

    Mark

     
    • Geoffrey T. Dairiki

      To use that method, the index.php has to be within your htdoc tree.  (I.e. where you have the absolute filesystem path '/home/groups/..../index.php', you need instead a "absolute URL" (absolute in the sense that it starts at the web-server root.).

      Actually, I now recommend the use of an alternate method for this.  (The index.php file still has to be in your htdoc tree.)

      See http://phpwiki.sf.net/phpwiki/PrettyWiki
      Also:
        http://phpwiki.sf.net/phpwiki/PageNamesInPathInfo
      and
      http://phpwiki.sf.net/phpwiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

       
      • Mark Phillips

        Mark Phillips - 2002-01-12

        Thanks for the information! I followed the instructions to the letter (except my phpwiki directory is in phpwiki, not phpwiki-1.3), but I get the following error:

        Fatal error: Failed opening required 'lib/prepend.php' (include_path='/htdocs/phpwiki:/usr/lib/php4') in /home/groups/j/jo/jospt/htdocs/phpwiki/index.php on line 70

        Also, where is the PEAR.php file on the sf server? I did a locate PEAR.php and nothing was found, but there is a /usr/lib/php4/PEAR directory, which is empty. However, if I access the original index.php from the phpwiki directory, the phpwiki starts running.

        My final question - what are the db files in /tmp called? I need to copy them to my local space as per the INSTALL document, but it does not say what they are called, and there are a lot of files in /temp!

        Thanks!

         
        • Geoffrey T. Dairiki

          In your include_path, instead of '/htdocs/phpwiki' you need the full path to where you installed phpwiki (in your case:  '/home/groups/j/jo/jospt/htdocs/phpwiki'.)

          The sourceforge project web server is a fancy
          load-sharing setup.  There are actually several machines involved.

          The machine you log in to (shell.sf.net) is not the machine on which httpd runs.  Your home directory (/home/groups/j/jo/jospt/) is mounted in the same place on all the machines, but:

          The shell machines don't have PEAR code installed.  It's only on the webservers.  (I think it's in /usr/lib/php4 there, but now I can't remember.  It doesn't matter, in any case, as recent version of PhpWiki can find the PEAR code without the help of the include_path.)

          Also, each of the webservers has it's own local /tmp directory.  This means that putting any state files (either the database, or php session state files) in /tmp just doesn't work.

          I have just add a page to the PhpWiki wiki with some notes on this.  See:
          http://phpwiki.sf.net/phpwiki/PhpWikiOnSourceForge

           
    • Mark Phillips

      Mark Phillips - 2002-01-12

      Thanks - it works!

      I tried to use the WikiTrek theme by uncommenting the $theme="WikiTrek", but I got the "Unable to open file" error message that it could not read the 'themeinfo.php' file. There is a note in the index.php file that implies themes are not working yet. Is this true, or do I need to do something else?

       
      • Geoffrey T. Dairiki

        Yes, that's a bug you've found.  I've just checked a fix into CVS, so either get the latest version of index.php from CVS, or, in your index.php (or rather your htdocs/wiki).  Find the three lines which look like:

            if (file_exists("themes/$theme/themeinfo.php")) {
                include "themes/$theme/themeinfo.php";
            } else {

        and replace them with the single line:

            if (!@include("themes/$theme/themeinfo.php")) {

         
    • Florian K. Steinel

      One problem remains:
      open page http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/PrettyWiki/no/page
      Click on edit, tada an apache 404 error message.
      (/ is converted to %2F why)

       
      • Florian K. Steinel

        You have to edit stdlib.php:
        --- stdlib.php  Sat Jan 26 20:01:21 2002
        +++ stdlib.php.old      Sat Jan 26 19:53:20 2002
        @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
            
             if (USE_PATH_INFO) {
                 $url = $get_abs_url ? SERVER_URL . VIRTUAL_PATH . "/" : "";
        -        $url .= preg_replace("'%2F'i","/",rawurlencode($pagename));
        +        $url .= rawurlencode($pagename);
                 if ($args)
                     $url .= "?$args";
             }

         

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