doc/bugs/po:__apache_config_serves_index_directory_for_index.mdwn



Similarly to [[po:_apache_config_serves_index.rss_for_index]],
the [[plugins/po]] apache config has another bug.
The use of "DirectoryIndex index", when combined with multiviews, is intended
to serve up a localized version of the index.??.html file.
But, if the site's toplevel index page has a discussion page, that
is "/index/discussion/index.html". Or, if the img plugin is used to scale
an image on the index page, that will be "/index/foo.jpg". In either case,
the "index" directory exists, and so apache happily displays that
directory, rather than the site's index page!
--[[Joey]]

Ack, we do have a problem. Seems like ikiwiki's use of index/ as
the directory for homepage's sub-pages and attachments makes it
conflict deeply with Apache's MultiViews: as the MultiViews
documentation
says, index.* are considered as possible matches only if the
index/ directory does not exist. Neither type maps nor
mod_mime config parameters seem to allow overriding this behavior.
Worse even, I guess any page called index would have the same
issues, not only the wiki homepage.


I can think of two workarounds, both kinda stink:

Have the homepage's targetpage be something else than
index.html.
Have the directory for the homepage's sub-pages and attachments
be something else than index.

I doubt either of those can be implemented without ugly special
casing. Any other idea? --[[intrigeri]]