[pmwiki-users] Tilde question (Was wikifarm question)

[Martin Fick]

--- Sandy <sandy at onebit.ca> wrote:
> What is this prefix '~' thing? I saw it describe
> ages ago, and the local guru claimed I 
> misunderstood it. Can't find it on Google.
> 
> > d. the url includes a <prefix>FieldName, such as
> >    http://www.example.com/~FieldA/Group/Page
> >      (prefix='~')
> >   
>
http://www.example.com/wikifarm/FieldA/index.php?n=Group.Page
> >      (prefix='wikifarm/')
> 

'~user' usually means the path to the home directory
of user.  (But a webserver can do whatever it wants
with it)

So in this case it probably means the home directory
of the FieldA user.

-Martin


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