> You shouldn't link all your home directories to be accessible via the
> webserver, because they are linked to be below documentroot.
Ooooooops. I happened to mention my difficulties with one of my
security-conscious colleagues, and he promptly went and read everything on
the machine, just to prove your point.
Okay, removed that symlink.
> > I set up MoinMoin successfully today. I thought I followed the directions,
> > but
> > I kept encountering a problem. The CSS did not seem to load,
>
> That is usually because the Alias for /moin_static185 (e.g.) is missing
> or is not working.
This was in fact my problem. I didn't understand your hint until I looked
carefully at both the Apache setup file and the wikiconfig.py. In case anyone
else Googles across this, I'll explain my confusion, along with what I did to
fix it.
The wikiconfig.py requires the assignment of three directories,
data_dir
data_underlay_dir
url_prefix
The defaults for the first two ('./data' and './underlay') don't work, at
least not on my system. When it fails, a helpful error message recommends
giving the absolute pathname, e.g., /home/luser/read/the/directions . (That's
not the actual help text I saw, in case anyone's wondering. It's just how I
felt. ;-))
I figured the third one (url_prefix) would need an absolute path, too, and I
seem to have misread at least one of the many web pages online that discuss
the setup & configuration of this file. So url_prefix had the absolute path
to the static files, when it wants a *relative* path.
So that was the problem. I got it to work by changing url_prefix
to '/moin_static160'. Likewise Apache's configuration *must* have the alias
directive
Alias /moin_static160/ /absolute/path/to/moin_static160/
I should have caught this sooner, but I didn't understand the hint in
wikiconfig.py on THE LINE ABOVE THAT VERY ASSIGNMENT:
# For CGI, it should match your Apache Alias setting.
I understand what it's saying now, but that was weird.
If someone has better advice, I'm open to it. For reference, I'm running Moin
1.90 on Ubuntu 8.04.3.
regards
john perry
--
John Perry, PhD
University of Southern Mississippi
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
http://www.math.usm.edu/perry/
john.pe...@usm.edu
601-266-4293
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