After using the shortened URLs for a day on my company's intranet wiki, I've gotten nothing but good comments. Nobody seems to be having any problems, and it's quite a bit nicer to link people.
I understand what you guys are saying and completely agree with it. In a public environment, on a shared server, or getting loads of traffic, this wouldn't be a very good idea. But as an intranet wiki for a small company, I have to say, it seems to work just fine (being as I don't need a robots.txt, lack of favicon.ico is bad but excusable, using the default skin, etc). It might be technically wrong, but in practice seems to be nice.
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l- bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jamie Bliss Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 4:04 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Get rid of index.php in URL
On 7/20/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Zain Memon wrote:
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.
robots.txt favicon.ico skins/ subdirectory etc
This includes both files used by the wiki and general stuff that
applies
all over the web.
Brion is entirely correct in recomending this. It is generally a bad idea to have a directory containing both virtual files (rewritten to something else) and real ones. I have had problems with this, even in a subdirectory.
You can use RewriteCond to skip it, like this: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d But then Apache gives 403 Forbidden if the article name contains a colon (at least for me).
Using a /w & /wiki is easy to install, deal with, and maintain. I would strongly discourage using anything else. (Although I have set it up under /astro73/csx rewritten to /astro73/csxml without issues, see http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/csxml/Main_Page.)
-- Jamie
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