Something already been decided to take care of this issue: by default when your wiki cannot be found you are supposed to fallback on main wiki.
Maybe Edy did not had time to finish it but I'm pretty sure I see the option about it in the xwiki.cfg.vm. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Denis and all, > > On May 17, 2013, at 12:20 AM, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Vincent, >> >> >> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> Now that the virtual mode is on by default our users are having troubles >>> when they install 5.0.1. >>> It's the second time in 2 days that I have to help someone. >>> >>> The issue is that users will want to use URLs such: >>> http://myhost/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome >>> >>> And those URLs don't work anymore by default (which can be seen as a >>> regression). >>> >>> So I'm proposing the following change for 5.0.2/5.1M1: >>> * If there's only 1 wiki configured then always point to the main wiki. >>> >>> WDYT? >>> >> >> This has already been discussed. I was in favor of that behavior, but >> Edouard mention a potential confusing example in: >> http://markmail.org/message/ggjgqlfubjfyfxto >> >> So, what has been decided is to provide a more explicit message, and what I >> have suggested is to have an easy way for an admin to create the missing >> server descriptor when that error occurs. >> >> You should read the thread about this change in detail before proposing a >> new solution. > > Thanks for pointing me to this thread which I hadn't read at the time. > > I've now read it and I see that nothing was done on this point that you > raised (as item 3) in that thread). Eduard said that it could be a problem > for someone having 2 wikis and removing 1 and then all URLs would redirect to > that main wiki instead of noticing that the wiki he's pointing to has been > removed. > > The difference with now and when that thread was written is the feedback > we're getting from users trying XWiki 5.0+. We already have some user who > have stopped using XWiki because they found it too complex to setup with this > new virtual on by default and some others who spent hours scratching their > heads to figure out why something worked before and is no longer working. > > So I really think we need to do something and quite fast (for 5.0.2 and > 5.1M1). > > Solution 1: > ========= > > Check if there's only 1 wiki and default to the main wiki whatever the URL in > that case. It's still preferable to get a user started on xwiki and more > important than the use case found by Edy which is an edge case. > > Solution 2: > ========= > > Since the default config is path-based, stop fallbacking to domain-based when > no descriptor is found and always fallback to the main wiki instead. > > This option should solve the problem of getting started for users and at the > same time not have the problem raised by Edy. The only downside would be > users who had configured their subwiki in path-based (default) but with > domains, which is not the normal way anyway: they should configure it in > domain-based if they wish to use domains... > > My preference goes to 2. > > WDYT? Any other solution? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > PS: The reason I suddenly took interest in this topic is because: > * I've helped several users understand why they couldn't access their wiki in > 1 week (I can think of 3) > * I've recoded the new wiki descriptor module and updated the new url module > to handle subwiki aliases and this recoded this algorithm. I'll be committing > this soon now (just finishing some functional tests) > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
