Re: [Phpwiki-talk] removing "index.php" from url

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:03:39 +0100
"Tara Star" <te...@cl...> wrote:

> a) is there any way I can make the script "wiki" access the WikiFiles 
> which are in /public_html/spirolattic/ (mapped as another domain name)?

(If I understand the question correctly:) Sure.  You can put phpwikis
all over the place --- they can even be on different physical hosts.
As long as each one is configured to talk to the same database (same
mysql server/database, or same dbm files) they will all have the same
contents.

> b) if it was possible (I suspect it isn't, though), then I could access 
> the wiki by spirolattic.net/wiki/

Certainly possible.

> => b1) could I tell my server that "wiki" is the default file to look 
> for in a directory (not "index.php"), so that the "wiki/" part 
> disappears in the uri? (again, I don't think it is possible, as it isn't

> when the default file is "index.php")


You want e.g. the RecentChanges to be at
http://spirolattic.net/RecentChanges,
I think.

You can do this, I think, but not, I think (again), in quite the way you
suggest.  You could do it, I'm sure, with mod_rewrite (since you can do
just about anything with mod_rewrite).  It's also probably possible
to do this using Apache's 'Handler' directive.  There's some cryptic
notes I made on this at http://phpwiki.sf.net/wiki/PageNamesInPathInfo.

The reason most people would not want to do this is that if you do,
the wiki occupies the entire URL name space of your domain.  If you ever
want to add something else (other than wiki) under that domain, you're
out of luck, since every URL points to a wiki page.