On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:40:40 +0100, Sabine Cretella sabine_cretella@yahoo.it wrote:
I modified the main page first and everything seemed ok. Then I modified again and the browser just did not show me the changes - no way ... even after several re-loads.
My suspicion is that you didn't do a "forced" or "hard" refresh to by-pass the browser's cache - the exact method depends on the browser, but generally you have to hold down Shift or Control while doing a normal reload. So your browser still thinks the old version is perfectly valid, and doesn't bother downloading a new one.
The other alternative is that MediaWiki itself has cached the wrong version in some way, in which case adding "&action=purge" to the URL might have an effect.
http://www.wesolveitnet.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page http://wesolveitnet.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
Those two pages look exactly the same to me, which is why I suspect this is just a caching issue of some kind.
So do you think it depends on my browser or did I choose a wrong directory name (I noted that when editing pages on the wikimedia servers it works in a directory called /w).
The directory name shouldn't matter in the slightest. The "/w/" in wikimedia's setup is just the way the Apache redirects are set up - "/wiki/Foo" is invisibly redirected to the actual location which is "/w/index.php?title=Foo" (this explanation may not be 100% technically accurate, but that's the basic idea).