On 23 Mar 2005, at 12:38, Rick DeNatale wrote:
Add me to the list of folks pulling their hair out trying to get prettier urls to work with mediawiki.
I'm assuming you're using Apache, and have access to at least an included portion of httpd.conf.
Have you tried using Alias instead of RewriteRule?
I tried both under 1.4b5, and found Alias was slightly faster, and MUCH easier to understand. The RewriteRule technique may have some advantage I don't understand, which probably means I don't need it!
I have not tried it under 1.4 yet. I had to disable it in order to get at the config directory -- another good thing about pretty URLs. (And also, it's more likely to get crawled -- a mixed blessing.)
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