RE: [Phpwiki-talk] Root directories vs. subdirectories

[Martyn D. <ma...@dr...>]

Jeff,

Firstly many thanks for your reply.  Based on what you've said below, I
think the easiest thing that I can do would be to install PHPwiki under it's
own subdirectory of /wiki and in the root directory have an immediate HTTP
redirect to point to http://xxx/wiki.  This way, everything remains nice and
neat and doesn't involve any hacking about with the files, etc.

Regards,

	Martyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Dairiki [mailto:da...@da...]
Sent: 22 November 2002 16:17
To: Martyn Drake
Cc: php...@li...
Subject: Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Root directories vs. subdirectories


> I'm attempting to install phpwiki-1.33 into the root directory of my
> virtual web server (which is running Apache 1.3.27).  Note that it is
> the root directory and not some kind of /wiki or /phpwiki derivative.

I think I remember hearing some reports of some people being at least
partially successful doing that, but I'd recommend against it.

Where PhpWiki is installed (assuming USE_PATHINFO is on), it takes
over the entire URL-space.   If you install PhpWiki under /wiki, every
URL beginning with /wiki is a wiki page (or operation on one).
If you install PhpWiki under /, then every URL on your
host refers to a wiki page.  There's no place left
(without hackage) to put style sheets, icons, or anything
else that's not a wiki page.  (A request for /phpwiki.css
is interpreted as a request for the wiki page titled
'phpwiki.css'.)

Certainly PhpWiki was not designed with that usage in mind.

That said, here's a couple ideas:

Idea 1:

Recognize certain extensions (.css, .gif, .jpg) as non-wiki page.
Use mod_rewrite rules to differentiate between those special
URLs, and everything else.

Idea 2:

Put all the non-wiki page things on a different (possible virtual)
host.  (Or a (virtual) server running off a different (non-standard)
port.)



Not having attempted either, I like the second idea better...

In either case, you'll have to become familiar with the
configure options in part 5 ("URL options") of index.php
--- most of them will probably require manual configuration...


Write back if you get stuck.
If you get it to work, please write up a short howto...