Package: twiki Version: 20030201-6 Severity: wishlist I notice that the default apache config included with this version includes a commented-out redirect directive for /twiki. This line doesn't work perfectly, because it supersedes the earlier Alias lines, so the /pub and /data directories are inaccessible. I changed the line to a RedirectMatch which matches only subdirectory components beginning with an initial capital, and this seems to work well. The only caveat is that this will only work so long as all your web names begin with an initial capital. I believe that this is the convention anyway, so it should not be a great limitation, but probably still worth mentioning in a comment in the file.
The advantage here is that it's now possible to use shortened URLs, for example: http://twiki/twiki/Main/TWikiUsers Since apache serves a redirect to http://twiki/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/TWikiUsers there shouldn't be any issues relating to internal links; they will continue to use the long form as always. Please consider including this directive in the default apache.conf fragment, at least as a commented example. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.20-020stab009.24.777-enterprise Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages twiki depends on: ii apache2-common 2.0.52-3 Next generation, scalable, extenda ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy pn libalgorithm-diff-perl Not found. ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.10-1 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith ii libnet-perl 1:1.19-1 Implementation of Internet protoco ii perl [libmime-base64-perl] 5.8.4-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules [libnet-perl] 5.8.4-3 Core Perl modules ii rcs 5.7-13.3 The GNU Revision Control System
--- apache.conf~ 2005-02-02 00:35:31.000000000 -0800 +++ apache.conf 2005-02-02 11:24:52.000000000 -0800 @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ # Added for twiki Alias /twiki/pub /var/www/twiki/pub Alias /twiki/data /var/lib/twiki/data -Redirect /twiki/index.html http://twiki/cgi-bin/twiki/view -#Redirect /twiki/ http://twiki/cgi-bin/twiki/view + +#This RedirectMatch won't work for web names not starting with [A-Z] +RedirectMatch /twiki(/[A-Z].*)?$ http://twiki/cgi-bin/twiki/view$1 + +#Redirect /twiki/index.html http://twiki/cgi-bin/twiki/view +#Redirect /twiki http://twiki/cgi-bin/twiki/view # make sure this is even needed, and ref the doc section needing it <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/twiki/>
