On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Alan Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to Pmwiki and am setting it up on my own server. I want to > have pmwiki.php be the default page for my website > (engineeral.no-ip.org). > > The instructions near the bottom of the documentation page > at:http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Installation did not quite work. > At that location it gives instructions to make my index.php file > read:<?php chdir('pmwiki'); include_once('pmwiki.php'); > and to set the variable $PubDirUrl variable (e.g. to > "http://example.com/pmwiki/pub";) in local/config.php . (which for me > is 'http://engineeral.no-ip.org/www/wiki/pub/') > I also set the $ScriptUrl as: $ScriptUrl = > 'http://engineeral.no-ip.org/www/wiki/pmwiki.php'; in > local/config.php. > > Using those instructions when I accessed my website I got a list of > files and directories in my root (engineeral.no-ip.org/www). If I > clicked on "index.php" nothing happened. If I clicked through to the > wiki directory and clicked on pmwiki.php my home page came up, but > with messed-up formatting. > > Investigating further I found similar instructions at: > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PathVariables#PubDirUrl > This location suggested using the below for setting $ScriptUrl and $PubDirUrl > $ScriptUrl = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/pmwiki/pmwiki.php'; > (I changed the 'pmwiki' to my own directory 'wiki') > $PubDirUrl = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/pmwiki/pub'; (I > changed the 'pmwiki' to my own directory 'wiki') > > This works somewhat better. Now when I go to my default location > 'engineeral.no-ip.org' I still get just a file and directory > list. If I click on index.php, my wiki home page loads, with correct > formatting. So I'm very close. > > So the question is how do I get index.php to be run automatically from > my engineeral.no-ip.org/www directory? > I am using Apache/2.2.22 (Win32) and PHP/5.2.17 and Windows XP SP3 > > Thank you. > > Al Taylor. > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
It sounds as though your web hosting configuration does not recognize index.php as a possible DocumentIndex. _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
