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

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

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:58:38 -0700
"Aredridel" <are...@nb...> wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> I'm not sure how well Handler works -- I tried this a while ago with
less
> than success.  I'm not sure what's required.

Sorry.  Yes, the note to which you are replying was written in a
drunken stupor.  I meant to say "Apache's 'Action' directive". 
Along with 'SetHandler' this can be used to cause apache to pass
all requests for files in a particular directory to a CGI script.

I'm still, however, not comletely sure as to how one would go
about accomplishing the orignally proposed task, even armed with
this tool...

> > 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.
> 
> Unless you use mod_alias, which most people have compiled in, or
> mod_rewrite, or many oter modules, or you could write special support
for
> other URIs in the wiki php scripts.

My point, in case it wasn't clear, was that when USE_PATH_INFO is true,
and if the wiki were instaled as proposed:

   http://a.b.c/HomePage            is the home page of the wiki. 
   http://a.b.c/foo                 is another page in the wiki
   http://a.b.c/cgi-bin/script.cgi  is another (wierdly named) page in the
wiki.
   http://a.b.c/icons/rarrow.gif    ditto.

Sure, you could use mod_alias to make it so that /cgi-bin/script.cgi
and /icons/rarrow.gif are not treated as wiki pages, but then wiki
pages by those names are inaccessible (at least without further tricks.)

Functionally, this may not be a huge problem.  Who cares if you can't
make a wiki-page named icons/rarrow.gif?  But it's messy enough, that
it makes putting the wiki at http://a.b.c/wiki/HomePage look like
the better alternative to me.