From 778f5b4f5cc93ec1a39efac92906e32e76292aff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:27:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Added a comment --- ..._3f8ef438ca7de11635d4e40080e7baa9._comment | 43 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/CGI_script_and_HTTPS/comment_1_3f8ef438ca7de11635d4e40080e7baa9._comment diff --git a/doc/forum/CGI_script_and_HTTPS/comment_1_3f8ef438ca7de11635d4e40080e7baa9._comment b/doc/forum/CGI_script_and_HTTPS/comment_1_3f8ef438ca7de11635d4e40080e7baa9._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..03f1032e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/CGI_script_and_HTTPS/comment_1_3f8ef438ca7de11635d4e40080e7baa9._comment @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" + nickname="smcv" + subject="comment 1" + date="2012-11-05T11:27:02Z" + content=""" +IkiWiki generates self-referential URLs using the `url` and `cgiurl` +configuration parameters, and the `urlto()` and `cgiurl()` functions; +the code you quoted isn't involved (it's choosing whether to set +HTTPS-only cookies or not, rather than choosing how to generate +self-referential URLs). + +If you want your wiki to be accessible via both HTTP and HTTPS, and use +whichever the user first requested, you should set both `url` and +`cgiurl` to the same URI scheme and hostname with no port specified, +either both `http` or both `https`, for instance: + + url: http://www.example.com/ + cgiurl: http://www.example.com/ikiwiki.cgi + +or + + url: https://example.org/wiki/ + cgiurl: https://example.org/cgi-bin/ikiwiki + +(or the Perl-syntax equivalents if you're not using a YAML +setup file). + +If you use one of those, IkiWiki will attempt to generate +path-only links, like \"/wiki/\" and \"/cgi-bin/ikiwiki?...\", +whenever it's valid to do so. A visitor using HTTP will stay +on HTTP and a visitor using HTTPS will stay on HTTPS. + +The choice of `http` or `https` for the `url` and `cgiurl` +still matters when a URL *must* be absolute, such as in an +RSS feed. + +I improved this code in late 2010 for this todo item: +[[todo/want_to_avoid_ikiwiki_using_http_or_https_in_urls_to_allow_serving_both]]. +It's possible that it has regressed (that's happened +a couple of times). If it has, please quote your exact +`url` and `cgiurl` configuration. +"""]] -- 2.44.0