RE: [Mediawiki-l] Get rid of index.php in URL - MediaWiki-l

20 Jul 2005

Thanks, the QSA fixed the problem nicely.

As for your recommendations... I have an entire subdomain dedicated to
nothing but the wiki, and its set up as a VirtualHost in Apache. I'm
just fine with having the entire subdomain be dedicated to nothing but
the wiki. It just looks a lot nicer to have
http://wiki.subdomain.com/Main_Page than having a subdirectory or
index.php in there. Is that alright or am I committing blasphemy?

Thanks.

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
 bounces(a)Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber
 Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:59 AM
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 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Get rid of index.php in URL

 Zain Memon wrote:
  Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for.
However, I'm having
 one problem. I used the Kludge method from the page
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_a_very_short_URL  
 That's a bad idea -- I strongly recommend against doing this as it fills
...
  your entire URL namespace with the wiki. This will
break legitimate
 files unless you add exceptions, and make it impossible to have wiki
 pages with titles conflicting with those exceptions. It may cause
 strange errors for use with actual files that you forgot to except.

 The URL space for the wiki pages should *always* appear as a
 'subdirectory', not the root URL, for compatibility and safety.

  and it seems to
 be working okay, except for one thing: Searches don't work.  
 Your rewrite rules must include [QSA] for the query string to be passed
...
  through.

 -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) 