I’ve retired (well, pushed out of the way) our old FrontPage index page to this website, www.hill-kleerup.org, in favor of routing it over to our Wiki, which is a hell of a lot easier to maintain. And if it isn’t the most elegant and beautiful thing on the planet, it’s functional (and a lot better than the old FrontPage version, which looked so 1998, and which hadn’t really been updated since late 2001).
I’m handling the redirection by, well, using one of those fugly redirection META statements (with a 0-second timer). My ideal would be:
A. Having the Wiki represent the root (e.g., like Doyce’s FireflyWiki, or even his RandomWiki).
I could do that, I imagine, by reinstalling the PMWiki software to take over the root somehow. Kind of. I’m not sure, so I should probably ask the source. That said, I’m reluctant to reinstall PMWiki, especially since that would mean I would probably want to install the new version of PMWiki, and that way madness lies because I have no time for this sort of thing. Rrg!
B. Having the Wiki redirect instantly.
I should be able to do that through a .htaccess Redirect statement, e.g.,
Redirect http://www.hill-kleerup.org/index.html http://www.hill-kleerup.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php
Only problem is, that doesn’t work. Needs more research.
Another nice-to would be:
C. Get the Wiki URLs a little simpler.
There are ways to eliminate some of the pmwiki.php codes in the URLs to make it look nicer and neater. I need to review those in more detail (hmmm, how many more phone calls do I have to sit through today where I don’t need to actually pay attention?) to see which of these will work for me.
Again, I know Doyce did this, so I may need to poke his brain a bit.
But, anyhow, that sort of retires FrontPage from this site, though most of the underlying pages still exist there for reference until I get it all fully converted over (or decide to allow the obsolete content to be deleted, much as that pains me).
I got “C” working. The string “pmwiki.php” no longer shows up in the URLs for the wiki pages. Took a fair amount of goofing around with the this stuff — and remembering that PmWiki’s config.php should be saved in the /local/ directory, not in the wiki root.
Or not. I appear to have nice short URLs — but everything points to the Main/HomePage regardless of what the URL says. Researching …
Ah. Combination of factors on “C” (still) made it not work, but I now have it working (and have updated the PmWiki documentation (!) to show what I did — cool!).