On 09/11/05, David J. Biesack <David.Biesack(a)sas.com> wrote:
Our MediaWiki install is sitting on an Apache server
that also handles other traffic
and in particular has content handlers in place. So when someone recently tried
to create a artiucle name TableSamples.jsp, they succeeded in creating the page
but when they tried to view the page from the page that links to [[TableSamples.jsp]],
the web server saw the .jsp URL and tried to run it as a JSP file rather than as a
mediawiki file and returned a 404. The user was confused and thought it was a
mediawiki problem.
I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the webserver should never get
to thinking that in the first place, if configured properly. That is,
URLs of pages within the wiki should be being rewritten to
unambiguously reference the MediaWiki scripts with a particular
argument. Maybe something is wrong with your ReWrite rules, or you've
accidentally let the "virtual directory" in which the articles [appear
to] reside overlap with a "real" directory containing real files.
Like I say, I could be wrong, but I've never heard of this being a
problem before (and presumably *all* copies of MediaWiki have at least
a PHP handler in place...)
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]