In article CA+oo+DVb5K4MgF4UJxJQpm7C=8eEx-emuLYiox3T82NGSVewdQ@mail.gmail.com, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com writes:
Usually this means that mediawiki detects the new server as not supporting PATH INFO (usually deoends on the combination of server software and which php sapi is in use), so it cannot use the automatic short url setup. In such a case you usually need to setup rewrite rules to make it work, although you can also try adjusting $wgUsePathInfo to override the feature support autodetection if you think path info is really supported.
OK, this sounds like we're moving in the right direction as I don't recall needing a rewrite rule for this before. I will check with my hosting provider.
I don't find $wgUsePathInfo in my LocalSettings.php; I'm currently on MediaWiki 1.17.0, which I recognize is pretty ancient at this point. (http://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Version)
This was one of the main motivations for changing hosting providers so that I could get the software upgraded. At this point, I've migrated the content and that all seems to work OK except for the form of the URL and one other issue, which I will post here separately.