Thank you, Brian. That was indeed the missing piece. We set $wgArticlePath, so that explains the format of the URL.

Cindy

Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:48:05 +0000

From: Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com

Its not CGI support so much as if MW detects it can properly use $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']. Generally speaking, this is true provided your PHP sapi is not cgi, apache2filter, or isapi. Of course, if you have set $wgArticlePath yourself, then this auto-detection stuff is overridden.

-- Brian

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Cindy Cicalese cindom@gmail.com wrote:

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Scott,

I double checked the Short URL manual page [0], because you mentioned

that

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you planned to switch to short URLs due to this issue. We do not use

short

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URLs, so there must be something else going on. What struck me on the manual page, was the following:

MediaWiki's default page addresses looks like these examples: http://example.org/w/index.php/Page_title *(recent versions of

MediaWiki,

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without CGI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface support)* http://example.org/w/index.php?title=Page_title *(recent versions of MediaWiki, with CGI support)*

Our URLs are consistent with the first case and yours are consistent with the second. However, we do have CGI enabled. Maybe somebody on the list

can

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elaborate on why the format of the URLs might be different?