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SID-00455: How to configure apache/twiki to point to twiki main page

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.1	Perl version:	5.10.0 Build 1005
Category:	CategoryInstallation	Server OS:	Windows 2003	Last update:	16 years ago

I am running twiki 4.3.1 on a Windows 2003 server and when I enter the IP address of the twiki server http://172.16.253.130 into my browser I get "It works". If I fully qualify the path with http://172.16.253.130/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome I can get to my twiki home page. I've added a host file to my local workstation so that I now enter http://portal/twiki/bin/view and get my twiki main page.

How to I configure apache/twiki so that all I have to do is enter http://portal to be redirected to the twiki mainpage?

-- MichaelKerr - 2009-08-04

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You can have a .ht file with a rewrite rule or a redirect rule and then place this file in the main apache url path.

-- HugoDeLaCerda - 2009-08-04

Search and replace the default index.html file the Apache is serving by default with something like this

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <title>Portal</title>
     <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;URL=http://172.16.253.130/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome">
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

-- EnriqueCadalso - 2009-08-04

the pretty way is by doing 3 things.

- Create a text file with the following line and save it as .htaccess in the main http directory (where index.html is)

RedirectMatch ^/$ /twiki/bin/view

- Modify default site in apache sites-availible directory so it allows overrides:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
   <Directory /var/www/>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow, deny
      Allow from all
   </Directory>

3.- If it's an old apache server make sure you have mod-rewrite active by uncommenting it's line in httpd.conf or apache2.conf

4.- Restart Apache webserver

This way all requests going to http://portal will be redirected to http://portal/twiki/bin/view.

-- HugoDeLaCerda - 2009-08-04

I tried going with Enrique's solution but couldn't locate the dir sites-available. I searched for a text entry called VirtualHost and drew a blank. I went with Hugo's suggestion which worked but ended up modifying it slightly so that it read:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <title>Portal</title>
     <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0;URL=http://portal/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome">
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

Many thanks to you both.

-- MichaelKerr - 2009-08-04

Sorry, I misread the postings. I ended up using Enriques solution

-- MichaelKerr - 2009-08-04

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Status	Answered
Title	How to configure apache/twiki to point to twiki main page
SupportCategory	CategoryInstallation
TWiki version	4.3.1
Server OS	Windows 2003
Web server	Apache 2.2
Perl version	5.10.0 Build 1005

Topic revision: r6 - 2009-08-04 - PeterThoeny

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