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

[Michael Foltinek]

I'm sort of pulling this out of /dev/ass, but I think that .htaccess
files in directories can override global settings from httpd.conf

On 9/27/06, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
SNIP
>
> I think this is the source of the final difficulty with the question marks
> in the file name.  It is just a file with a peculiar name so apache should
> simply deliver the contents of the file with the requested peculiar name
>
> e.g.,
>
> PATH=~irwin/plplot_wiki
> FILE=index.php?QUERY=title=Main_Page
> QUERY=
>
> and mark it as text/html (that part done above).  Instead, probably because
> I have php enabled (automatically due to some software on my system that
> requires it), it is interpreting that file name as a php request, and
> looking for the file index.php in ~irwin/plplot_wiki which of course does
> not exist.  How do I turn off the php interpretation of the file name for
> all files in /home/irwin/public_html/plplot_wiki ?  Is there some apache
> directive I can add to the above /etc/apache2/httpd.conf stanza to force
> no interpretation of file names?
>
> Thanks in advance to anybody who can answer that question.
>
> Alan

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