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

[Philip J. H. <ph...@ho...>]

I have my phpwiki in the root at http://www.hollenback.net, and
everything works fine.  I did have to futz with it a bit to make it
pick up the themes correctly, but it was long enough ago that I don't
remember what I did.  Check the bug reports on the sourceforge site, I
filed the info there.

Now having said that, I don't think the situation is anywhere near as
complicated as Jeff suggests.  For one thing, there is no namespace
issue because every wiki operation has to go through index.php.  So to
take the example of my site, my main css page is at
http://www.hollenback.net/hollenback-style.css.  A wiki page is at
http://www.hollenback.net/index.php/HelpfulMuttHints (for example).

So there's really no issue of the wiki getting in the way.  index.php
for all things wiki, start from the root (/) for everything else.

Unless I'm missing something?

I see the following in the url options part of my index.php:

define('DATA_PATH', '');
define('PHPWIKI_DIR', '.');

This is phpwiki 1.3.3.

P.

On Sweetmorn, the 34th of The Aftermath, Jeff Dairiki spoke:
> > 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
> 
> 
> Write back if you get stuck.
> If you get it to work, please write up a short howto...
> 
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