Add me to the list of folks pulling their hair out trying to get prettier urls to work with mediawiki.
After upgrading to 1.4.0 I decided to try to prettify my urls. I hadn't tried actually rewriting the incoming urls using mod_rewrite under my previous 1.3.x installation, but I swear that manually entering a url of .../wiki/index.php/Title used to work.
I've set up rewrite rules for the wiki directory, and It looks like the rewriting of a url like
http://www.mydomainname/wiki/Frodo to http://www.mydomainname/wiki/index.php/Frodo
is working but then the url itself isn't being properly processed. As I say, before I upgraded to 1.4.0 manual use of the resulting url used to work.
Yesterday, I couldn't get the alternative of rewriting to
http://www.mydomainname/wiki/index.php?Frodo
to work either, but today, for some mysterious reason it seems to work.
I hate it when things don't work and I don't understand why, but I hate it even more when they start to work and I still don't understand why, since it's not good for the confidence in things not breaking in the future.
Anyway, any ideas why the index.php/articlename form used to work in 1.3 and doesn't in 1.4?