[Discuss] Having trouble browsing a backed-up MediaWiki (PHP) site.

[Lionel Widdifield]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:42:00PM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Since I got no response to my first detailed question I will boil this down
> to something which I hope is really simple enough for the apache and PHP 
> gurus here to answer; how do I set up apache on my local machine so that I
> get the same browsing experience for downloaded (with wget) files like
> /home/irwin/public_html/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page (viewed with a
> browser as the URL
> http://localhost/~irwin/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) as I do for
> the original PHP-generated pages like
> http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page



1) these pages are preprocessed so ALL the internal references are broken.

 <location> will take care of the relative links
 ~irwin/plplot_wiki/

 I'ld go one step further and use location:/plplot_wiki/ --> plplot directory


2) Apache will use mimetypes to determine from the file extension that these
pages are "what"

 PATH=~irwin/plplot_wiki
 FILE=index.php
 QUERY=title=Main_Page

 Apache needs to tell the browser (Content-type: text/html) that the
retrieved data is actually not raw data. 
 
 If you're using mod_php, then it will issue the correct header line, else
you're going to have to equate .php to text/html.

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