MDWiki

walterbyrd · 01-10-2020, 02:43 PM

In the index.md file, you open a file with ordinary markdown

[filename](filename.md)

But what if filename.md is in other directory? For example:

[filename](/home/myhomedir/Dropbox/filename.md)

I cannot find any way to get that to work.

frankbell · 01-10-2020, 07:09 PM

What is MDWiki?

walterbyrd · 01-11-2020, 01:16 PM

"MDwiki is a CMS/Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client. No special software installation or server side processing is required. Just upload the mdwiki.html shipped with MDwiki into the same directory as your markdown files and you are good to go!"

https://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md

scasey · 01-11-2020, 01:38 PM

So, it's served by the webserver (i.e.: apache)?
The limitation to DocumentRoot is managed by the webserver, not by the page being served.

See the Alias directive (for apache).

...or put the page inside the DocumentRoot somewhere.

ehartman · 01-11-2020, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by walterbyrd

But what if filename.md is in other directory?

The path TO it is then relative to the document root: that is
/ is the document root
/something is the directory "something" IN that root, etc.

ondoho · 01-12-2020, 03:21 AM

^ exactly, you need to know what your web server's document root is.
You cannot serve files that are not under that directory structure.
So, assuming your document root is /var/www/html, you cannot serve /home/myhomedir/Dropbox/filename.md directly.
You have to copy or symlink it to something under the servers document root, e.g.:
/var/www/html/Dropbox/filename.md
Then you can reference it like this:

Code:

[filename](/Dropbox/filename.md)

PS: I think websites that show NOTHING without javascript are in bad taste.

walterbyrd · 01-12-2020, 03:43 PM

The root dir is /var/www/html.

I cannot access files on /var/www/html/dir1 either.

So [file](dir1/file.md) does not work either.

ondoho · 01-12-2020, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by walterbyrd

The root dir is /var/www/html.

I cannot access files on /var/www/html/dir1 either.

So [file](dir1/file.md) does not work either.

no, that's not what I showed you:
[file](/dir1/file.md)
Of course assuming that dir1/file.md actually exists under /var/www/html.

boughtonp · 01-12-2020, 04:15 PM

Without knowing what "does not work" means, it's only possible to guess at what might be wrong.

e.g. It could be any of incorrect syntax, a bug in MDWiki, and/or a design flaw.

Certainly the requirement for JavaScript comes in that final category, so my recommendation would be to forget about MDWiki and investigate whether the likes of ikiwiki/Gollum/Gitit/etc will do what you need.

walterbyrd · 01-19-2020, 06:23 PM

Thanks for the replies.

MDWiki will probably just not do it.