Christiaan Briggs wrote:
Okay, so putting it another way, could a similar system to that used in Wordpress ever be implemented, or is MediaWiki designed in such a way that it will always require configuration of the web server in this regard?
IIRC WordPress has an option to print out some sample Apache configuration lines, which you still have to manually install/activate, and won't work on any other web server software, or on Apache if you don't have the appropriate permissions enabled by your system administrator (since this is not available by default). Is this what you're referring to?
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