phpwiki-talk

[Phpwiki-talk] Re: Install Question

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Carla Shafer wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> You emailed me about a month ago in response to an error I was getting with
> my phpwiki installation, which I've since resolved. The problem was at my
> end, with my MySQL setup. Now the wiki app loads up nicely, but all the
> page links seem to return to FrontPage. Have you had this experience?

I've never seen this... all the links go to FrontPage. It's really weird.

> In the MySQL database, the "wiki" table has all the default page data (20
> pages I think). I noticed that the archive table only had a record for
> FrontPage, so I tried inserting duplicate records in that table as well,
> hoping that might fix the problem. But no luck.

No, that would have no effect for this problem... it has nothing to do
with the archive table.

> If I add a new page, I get the same situation, the page definition data
> goes into the database, the PageName shows up as an anchor, but clicking on
> the link doesn't navigate to the page.

>          See: http://www.munex.net/phpwiki
>
> I'm hoping you have a quick and easy answer. ;-)

So far I can't figure out why it does this. Is there something nonstandard
with your PHP setup? Do you use the CGI wrapper thing, for example? Have
you edited any of the files like display.php or transform.php? It looks
like you are using the 1.2 version of PhpWiki.

~swain

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[Phpwiki-talk] Re: Install Question

[Carla S. <cs...@mu...>]

At 05:26 PM 4/5/2001 -0400, Steve Wainstead wrote:
> > goes into the database, the PageName shows up as an anchor, but clicking on
> > the link doesn't navigate to the page.
> >          See: http://www.munex.net/phpwiki
>
>So far I can't figure out why it does this. Is there something nonstandard
>with your PHP setup? Do you use the CGI wrapper thing, for example? Have

Well, this was to be my first foray into PHP. (I've been running a 
customized Perl wiki application for awhile, and was looking into other 
options.) I have a brand new Cobalt RAQ4 that came with PHP pre-installed 
-- current builds of Linux, Apache, etc. I haven't tweaked that bundled 
installation at all. And I didn't attempt to change the phpwiki files, 
beyond configuring for MySQL as the database and the admin login -- as per 
instructions. So I think it's a pretty clean installation.

I'm not sure about the CGI wrapper configuration. I'll see if I can see how 
that works, and try to determine if PHP was installed that way or not.

Thanks for the response, though. Let me know if you have any further 
insights, and I'll do likewise.

sincerely,


           Carla J. Shafer, President/CEO
           Munex, Inc.

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Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: Install Question

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

Hi Carla,

>I'm not sure about the CGI wrapper configuration. I'll see if I can see how 
>that works, and try to determine if PHP was installed that way or not.

Try creating a short php script (called, say, 'phpinfo.php') consisting
of the following line:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

This script (when browsed) will report all sorts of information about
the configuration of your PHP.


Then report back with the output of that script (or just give us the
URL so we can go look ourselves.)

Best Regards,
Jeff Dairiki
<da...@da...>

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: Install Question

[Malcolm R. <mal...@cs...>]

This isn't exactly a PhpWiki question, but it relates, and perhaps you
will know the answer.

I am trying to redirect one of my web-pages to a page within my NomicWiki.
I'd rather do this properly using Apache's RedirectMatch directive in the
.htaccess file (rather than having one of those annoying "this page will 
refresh in 5 seconds" pages).

But the problem is this: The URL I want to redirect to is:

http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php?NomicFaq

So I have the directive:

RedirectMatch permanent FAQ.html http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php?NomicFaq

But Apache does some kind of encoding on this and sends me to the URL:

http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php%3fNomicFaq

which, of course, doesn't work.

I have scoured the Apache manuals but cannot find a way to prevent this.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have considered moving to the new PhpWiki with USE_PATH_INFO, so I
can redirect to http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php/NomicFaq instead,
but I am reluctant to use an alpha copy and upgrading looks like too much
fuss.

While I am on the topic of upgrading, would it be possible to provide a 
set of templates and style files that look as much as possible like the
old PhpWiki? I like the way v1.2 looks better than the new layout.

Also, I notice that a number of the text formatting rules pages are out of
date. The rules at the bottom of the edit page still recommend ''' for bold.
The TextFormattingRules page has several mistakes. 

Malcolm

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Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: Install Question

[Adam S. <la...@sp...>]

> I am trying to redirect one of my web-pages to a page within my
> NomicWiki. I'd rather do this properly using Apache's RedirectMatch
> directive in the .htaccess file (rather than having one of those
> annoying "this page will refresh in 5 seconds" pages).

if you use a refresh time of 0 it's not noticable to the end user.  i use
this as a way of redirecting old pages that i want to work but don't want
to support anymore around my site.

> But Apache does some kind of encoding on this and sends me to the URL:
> http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php%3fNomicFaq
> which, of course, doesn't work.

yep this is standard.  i *think* the two are equivelent to apache, so it
should just be a matter of patching phpwiki to understand the encoded
version of "?" as a legit delimiter.  i believe that "3f" is just the
hexified ascii code for "?".

> Also, I notice that a number of the text formatting rules pages are
> out of date. The rules at the bottom of the edit page still recommend
> ''' for bold. The TextFormattingRules page has several mistakes.

side question ... i poked around nomicwiki and is the sitemap feature a
standard phpwiki feature?

adam.

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: Install Question

[Malcolm R. <mal...@cs...>]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:19:02AM -0700, Adam Shand wrote:
> 
> side question ... i poked around nomicwiki and is the sitemap feature a
> standard phpwiki feature?

No. You can have the source if you want, but I think most people were 
concerned about it taking up too much processing time on a large Wiki, as
it is regenerated on the fly.

Is anyone working on ways to visualise a PhpWiki? I liked some of the stuff
I saw at WardsOriginialWiki.

Malcolm

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           and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." - Matt 5:45