Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Correct way to make wiki visible?

[Jim F. <ja...@wa...>]

Matt Brown wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:10 +0000, Jim Ford wrote:
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>>I've finally got Phpwiki working O.K.. I've made it visible to users by 
>>making a soft link in the web site directory to my installation 
>>directory /usr/share/phpwiki-1.3.11p1. I understand that this is not the 
>>'proper' way to do it, and I should use an apache alias. Could someone 
>>tell me how I should make the alias, please?
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>>
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>There is some documentation on the wiki at:
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>However so many people have added stuff to that page overtime that it's
>hideously confusing!
>
>So, I'll tell you how I do it in the Debian package (which installs
>phpwiki to /usr/share/phpwiki), which seems to work well with Apache
>1/2 
>
>Alias /phpwikidata              /usr/share/phpwiki/
>Alias $docroot                  /usr/share/phpwiki/index.php
>
><Directory /usr/share/phpwiki/>
>    DirectoryIndex index.php
>    Options +FollowSymLinks
>    AllowOverride None
>    Order allow,deny
>    allow from all
></Directory>
>
>Where $docroot is the location you want the wiki to appear at
>(ie. /, /phpwiki, /wiki, etc.)
>
>The magic you need to make this work inside the PHPwiki config is simply
>DATA_PATH=/phpwikidata
>
>All other path related options should be left commented out at their
>defaults.
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Thanks Matt - it works fine now.

Jim Ford