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PmWiki Clean URLs on nginx

Friday, November 20, 2009

Building on yesterday’s post on setting up PmWiki on nginx, I figured out the nginx configurations for PmWiki Clean URLs.
First, copy the example config.php out of the docs/ directory to the root of the PMWiki site, in my case, I installed to $DOCROOT/pmwiki/:
cd $DOCROOT
cp pmwiki/docs/sample-config.php pmwiki/config.php
Following the Clean URL notes, in pmwiki/config.php I set:
$EnablePathInfo = [...]

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PmWiki on nginx

Thursday, November 19, 2009

I’ve been looking at a few wiki packages for a project and found PmWiki to my liking – under active development, a nice default skin, easily customizable, and it does not require a database. My personal choice is ikiwiki, which I run on my laptop for quick notes, but since this project is for [...]

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Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Monday, August 24, 2009
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Lenny apt configs

Thursday, August 13, 2009

A friend of mine, Major, asked for a little advice on Debian apt configuration for a stable production server. Over the years, I have learned a few little things with regards to apt configuration with sane access to newer backports and/or testing/unstable/alpha apt repositories, and particularly one gotcha when a new stable release is [...]

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The Order of the Blue Polo

Thursday, May 14, 2009

I just got my blue polo from the OpenNMS guys, and had to write a quick post on the certificate included in the package. It says:

Certificate of Merit
Let this Certify that
Michael Shuler
has demonstrated outstanding judgment in becoming a member of
The Order of the Blue Polo
What can we say? Although “bestest” isn’t a word, [...]

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