Re: Presenting the relax wiki at: http://wiki.nmr-relax.com , finally at the right name place -- July 19, 2013 - 13:59

Hi !

According to:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
this setup is not recommended.
http://wiki.example.org/Page_title (not recommended!)

But the wiki now accepts:
http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php/TITLE

This was setup in LocalSettings.php
$wgScriptPath = "";
$wgScript = "{$wgScriptPath}/index.php";
$wgRedirectScript = "{$wgScriptPath}/redirect.php";
$wgArticlePath = "{$wgScript}/$1";
$wgUsePathInfo = false;
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";

Best
Troels



Troels Emtekær Linnet


2013/7/19 Edward d'Auvergne <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> This is great!  I have run a few tests and it looks like everything
> now works perfectly.  I can edit pages with no problems now.  One
> thing I would add for the DNS setup information is that I originally
> set up an A record to point to the wiki IP address of 184.168.221.25.
> This was the URL forward which did not work with editing, user
> creation, etc.  I also tested the A record of wiki2 pointing to
> 217.116.232.203, but this failed and has been removed.
>
> Now that the wiki is fully functional and I have the backup scripts
> running, we just need to refine the MediaWiki settings.  Oh, if you
> are an accepted relax developer and would like to set up cronjobs for
> backing up the wiki, just write a private email to Troels and myself
> to get the secret login details.  One example is that I think that
> short URLs would be very useful
> (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL).  So you should see
> the following URL changes:
>
> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php?title=Main_Page -> 
> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com
> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php?title=Category:Tutorials ->
> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/Category:Tutorials
> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php?title=Tutorial_for_adding_relaxation_dispersion_models_to_relax
> -> 
> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/Tutorial_for_adding_relaxation_dispersion_models_to_relax
> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/index.php?title=Parameter_error_analysis ->
> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com/Parameter_error_analysis
>
> This is the setup used for Wikipedia and lots of other wikis and is
> easier on the user.  It is also better for linking purposes.  A major
> benefit would be with search engines.  The shortened URLs will make it
> much more friendly for users to find the wiki pages on the web.  I am
> using the Google Webmaster Tools as well as Google Analytics to help
> optimise the relax webpages, and I can see that no pages have been
> indexed yet despite me sending a direct request to index
> http://wiki.nmr-relax.com and all nested links (back when this URL was
> working but there were DNS problems).  I don't know if this is because
> of the long URLs, because of the original DNS problems or because of
> some other problem.  If we set up the shortened URLs, I will use
> Webmaster Tools to get Google to fetch a number of pages on the wiki,
> and to also submit them to the Google index.  This will make the wiki
> pages appear in Google searches (and then often in other search
> engines) sooner.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Edward
>
>
>
>
> On 19 July 2013 09:19, Troels Emtekær Linnet <tlinnet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Dear relax developers.
> >
> > The relax wiki, has now finally found it's right place with the right name.
> >
> > http://wiki.nmr-relax.com
> >
> > The wiki was up and running 19 of July 2013.
> >
> > ----------
> > For further reference for developers
> > -------
> >
> > Since gna.org does not provide PHP and MySQL,
> > (see https://gna.org/cookbook/?func=detailitem&item_id=108 )
> > the wiki could not be hosted at gna.org.
> >
> > I have access to a webhotel, gigahost.dk, which have these services.
> >
> > It has been a little mystery, how to handle DNS settings, so the web
> > page naming would be correct.
> > The naming had to be:
> >
> > http://wiki.nmr-relax.com
> >
> > --------------------
> > For further references for future developers, the DNS setup is as follows.
> >
> > Note:
> > 'A' records can only point to IP.
> > 'CNAME' is aliases for A records. (Must have an A record somewhere),
> > and can only point to domain names.
> >
> > ### A ###) At godaddy, the DNS server for nmr-relax.com, the settings are:
> > 1) An URL forward for the naked domain nmr-relax.com to www.nmr-relax.com
> > No frame, no wildcards.
> >
> > 2) A CNAME record for
> > www -> home.gna.org
> > (they have a setup, which then points to the SVN repository ''website'
> > directory)
> > Ref: https://gna.org/cookbook/?func=detailitem&item_id=107
> > Ref: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax/website/
> >
> > 3) A CNAME record for
> > wiki.nmr-relax.com -> nmr-relax.kimlinnet.dk
> >
> > ### B ###) At gratisdns.dk, the DNS server for kimlinnet.dk
> > 1) An 'A' record for
> > nmr-relax.kimlinnet.dk -> 217.116.232.203
> >
> > The request for wiki.nmr-relax.com will then be pointed to 217.116.232.203
> > for the directory www/wiki.nmr-relax.com/ (have to be positioned 
> > gigahost.dk).
> >
> > The request route can for example be seen by using:
> > http://www.hscripts.com/tools/HDNT/dns-record.php
> >
> > Domain  Type    Class   Result
> > wiki.nmr-relax.com.     CNAME   IN      nmr-relax.kimlinnet.dk.
> > nmr-relax.kimlinnet.dk. A       IN      217.116.232.203
> >
> > At gigahost, I had to create the directory (create a domain without DNS) at
> > www/wiki.nmr-relax.com/
> >
> > And then it finally worked. :-)
> >
> > Note:
> > The intermediate step at gratisdns.dk is probably not necessary.
> > An 'A' record at godaddy could have been directly created to point to 
> > gigahost:
> > Example: wiki.nmr-relax.com -> 217.116.232.203
> >
> > But with this setup, I gain control to later point to another webhotel
> > (if necessary),
> > without the need to contact edward to change the godaddy DNS service.
> >
> > Best
> > Troels Emtekær Linnet
> > PhD student
> > Copenhagen University
> > SBiNLab, 3-0-41
> > Ole Maaloes Vej 5
> > 2200 Copenhagen N
> >
> >
> > -----------
> > Problems which had troubled this setup.
> > -----------
> > Hopefully these notes save some time in the future for someone
> >
> > If you at godaddy DNS, make a URL forward (within a frame), then the
> > name will always appear as
> > http://wiki.nmr-relax.com
> > and the generic name thing, will not work for user login, etc.
> >
> > Then you could put at:
> > http://www.nmr-relax.com/wiki/index.html
> > ---------------
> > <frameset rows="100%">
> > <frame src="http://nmr-relax.kimlinnet.dk/";>
> > </frameset>
> > ---------------
> >
> > But that would just give the same behavior.
> >
> > Then you can make a .htaccess file
> > http://www.nmr-relax.com/wiki/.htaccess
> > ---------------
> > RewriteEngine on
> > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://nmr-relax.kimlinnet.dk/$1 [R=301,L]
> > --------------
> >
> > But then the address WILL change to  http://nmr-relax.kimlinnet.dk/,
> > which was not wished.
> >
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