Wiki source code of Access a wiki
Version 4.1 by Thomas Mortagne on 2013/05/10
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| 1 | By default when you connect to your wiki farm you will go to the main wiki. To be able to access other wikis, XWiki supports two modes. | ||
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| 5 | = The domain name based wiki access = | ||
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| 7 | {{info}} | ||
| 8 | This was the default mode until XWiki 3.3 RC1. After the release of XWiki Enterprise 3.3 RC1, the URL path based access mode is used as default. | ||
| 9 | {{/info}} | ||
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| 11 | In virtual mode you can access any wiki by the [[domain name/alias>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System]] registered in its descriptor with the field ##server## ("Alias" in the UI). | ||
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| 13 | For example if the url is //{{{http://wikiname.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Space/Page}}}// XWiki will try to find "wikiname.xwiki.org" as a value of the ##server## field in the objects of class ##XWiki.XWikiServerClass##. Then it extracts the last part of the page name to get the wiki identifier: in this case it finds ##XWiki.XWikiServerWikiname## and extracts "wikiname" as the wiki identifier to set the database to query on. | ||
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| 15 | If no descriptor can be found: | ||
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| 17 | * if the host is an IP (127.0.0.1, 85.65.12.36, etc.) XWiki selects the main wiki | ||
| 18 | * else, if the first part of the host name (what is before the first point) is "www" XWiki selects the main wiki | ||
| 19 | * else, if the first part of the host name matches a wiki identifier XWiki selects that wiki | ||
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| 21 | If after all no wiki has been found, then XWiki redirects to the URL configured in the property ##xwiki.virtual.redirect## of ##xwiki.cfg##. | ||
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| 23 | So to be able to access your wiki you need to configure your DNS or modify hosts file in your operating system (see [[Hosts file documentation on Wikipedia>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file]] for details). | ||
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| 25 | = The URL path based wiki access = | ||
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| 27 | {{info}} | ||
| 28 | * This mode is supported only since XWiki Platform 1.7 and XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.5 and only when enabled. | ||
| 29 | * Starting with XWiki 3.3 RC1, this is the default mode. | ||
| 30 | {{/info}} | ||
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| 32 | When this mode is enabled you can access a wiki using an url like: {{{http://host/xwiki/wiki/wikialias/view/Space/Page}}}. | ||
| 33 | The two parts of ##/wiki/wikialias## mean: | ||
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| 35 | * ##wiki##: this is used by XWiki to identify the URL as a URL path based multiwiki access. You can configure it in ##xwiki.cfg## with the property ##xwiki.virtual.usepath.servletpath##.((( | ||
| 36 | {{warning}} | ||
| 37 | Don't forget to set the ##xwiki.authentication.logoutpage## property accordingly. Change the "wiki" part in the property value for the right alias. | ||
| 38 | {{/warning}} | ||
| 39 | ))) | ||
| 40 | * ##wikialias##: this is used by XWiki to find the wiki descriptor | ||
| 41 | ** first it tries to match ##wikialias## with the descriptors | ||
| 42 | ** if it can't find the descriptor this way it tries to match the wiki descriptor using ##wikialias## as the wiki identifier. This means looking whether the ##XWiki.XWikiServerWikialias## document exists and contains an object of the ##XWiki.XWikiServerClass## class |
