On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Rowan Collins wrote: When PHP is run with the normal apachehandler or apache2handler server APIs, you can place a slash and additional data after the script filename, and it's passed on to the script (index.php/Main_Page). MediaWiki uses this preferentially to index.php?title=Main_Page when available. In CGI mode this doesn't work, so setting up rewrite rules is necessary. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:34:09 -0400, Chris Phoenix <cphoenix(a)crnano.org> wrote: If your host runs Apache (rather than Microsoft IIS), you can do all sorts of things to the URLs using "rewrite rules" - although they can be a bit tricky in practice. Take a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_rules for some tips. This should work regardless of how PHP is installed, since it is purely a matter of Apache interpretting the URL. But note also: So, in other words, if your PHP setup uses the magic Apache module, you'll get (fairly) pretty URLs "for free" (i.e. no work). If not, or if you want to eliminate the "/index.php" altogether, see the link given above. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

Chris Phoenix wrote: I'm sure Zeus has a function similar to mod_rewrite.

Got it. Much easier if you are using PHPadmin

and in earlier versions? We're running 1.3.1. Getting it upgraded involves a lot of people so i have been putting itoff. We've finally been spammed. So now i need to restrict changes to users who i have put on the system and no-one else - shame.... i think this has been discussed recently but have not had time to get my head round it properly. is there a short and sweet version? (please say if an upgrade is the simplest route...) (how come this doesn't happen to the Wikipedia? or does it?) cheers