[Phpwiki-talk] Re: Debian/Kubuntu installation?

[Matthew P. <mp...@he...>]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 05:35:21PM +0100, Jim Ford wrote:
>  
>  The Debian PHPwiki package (which Ubuntu uses pretty much unmodified) 
>  sets up PHPwiki to be visible at http://your-site/phpwiki/ by default. 
>   
>  As you install the package you should be asked a debconf question to 
>  give you the opportunity to change this. I've not heard of adept before, 
>  but if you're not getting asked this question blame adept.  
>   
> I've now found how to purge a package 'dpkg --purge phpwiki' which 
> gets rid of all the config files. I've tried reinstalling, but whatever 
> I put in the installation path: 
> /phpwiki  (the default) 
> /apache2-default/phpwiki (my site) 
> /var/www/apache2-default (absolute path) 
> It never appears as a link or otherwise in /var/www/apache2-default. 
> It always ends up in /usr/share/phpwiki 

Which is where it should be.  Dropping crap in /var/www is a Bad Idea. 
Instead, phpwiki uses Alias to take requests for the specified path and
redirect it to the files in /usr/share/phpwiki.

- Matt