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[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / mirrorlist.mdwn

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 [[!template id=plugin name=mirror author="[[Joey]]"]]
-[[!tag type/special-purpose]]
+[[!tag type/web]]
 
 This plugin allows adding links a list of mirrors to each page in the
 wiki. For each mirror, a name and an url should be specified. Pages are
 assumed to exist in the same location under the specified url on each
 mirror.
+
+In case the `usedirs` setting is not the same on all your mirrors, or
+if it is not the same on your local wiki as on the mirror a
+possibility is to let each mirror's ikiwiki CGI find out the correct
+target page url themselves; in that case the mirrors urls must be set
+to their ikiwiki CGI url instead of their base url. Example:
+
+       mirrorlist_use_cgi => 1,
+       mirrorlist => {
+               'mirror1' => 'https://mirror.example.org/ikiwiki.cgi',
+               'mirror2' => 'https://mirror2.example.org/ikiwiki.cgi',
+       },
+
+The mirrors must have the ikiwiki CGI and the [[goto]] plugin enabled
+for this to work.