Thank you, Brian. That was indeed the missing piece. We set $wgArticlePath, so that explains the format of the URL.
Cindy
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:48:05 +0000
From: Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com
Its not CGI support so much as if MW detects it can properly use $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']. Generally speaking, this is true provided your PHP sapi is not cgi, apache2filter, or isapi. Of course, if you have set $wgArticlePath yourself, then this auto-detection stuff is overridden.
-- Brian
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Cindy Cicalese cindom@gmail.com wrote:
Scott,
I double checked the Short URL manual page [0], because you mentioned
that
you planned to switch to short URLs due to this issue. We do not use
short
URLs, so there must be something else going on. What struck me on the manual page, was the following:
MediaWiki's default page addresses looks like these examples: http://example.org/w/index.php/Page_title *(recent versions of
MediaWiki,
without CGI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface support)* http://example.org/w/index.php?title=Page_title *(recent versions of MediaWiki, with CGI support)*
Our URLs are consistent with the first case and yours are consistent with the second. However, we do have CGI enabled. Maybe somebody on the list
can
elaborate on why the format of the URLs might be different?