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(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
bounces(a)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(a)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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