I would like to convert my existing website of 6000+ pages to Mediawiki. I am willing to add content to a fresh installation of Mediawiki manually, but I want to retain the old urls. I understand that Mediawiki uses its own style of URLs. Is it possible that I can set a per-page url for every mediawiki page?
Eg: www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp When I create a new page mediawiki creates www.mysite.com/Topic, but I want to set the url to (www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp)
I would just use your web servers re-write rules
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Castor Troy wrote:
I would like to convert my existing website of 6000+ pages to Mediawiki. I am willing to add content to a fresh installation of Mediawiki manually, but I want to retain the old urls. I understand that Mediawiki uses its own style of URLs. Is it possible that I can set a per-page url for every mediawiki page?
Eg: www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp When I create a new page mediawiki creates www.mysite.com/Topic, but I want to set the url to (www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Right, that seems like a good solution. Google htaccess rewrite rules or something similar for your webserver if you don't use Apache. ----- Yury Katkov
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:57 PM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
I would just use your web servers re-write rules
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Castor Troy wrote:
I would like to convert my existing website of 6000+ pages to Mediawiki.
I
am willing to add content to a fresh installation of Mediawiki manually, but I want to retain the old urls. I understand that Mediawiki uses its
own
style of URLs. Is it possible that I can set a per-page url for every mediawiki page?
Eg: www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp When I create a new page mediawiki creates www.mysite.com/Topic, but I want to set the url to (www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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If I use re-write rules, I will be able to forward /fun/topic.asp to /Topic. But when I use [[Topic]] in new MediaWiki pages, it will be /Topic and not be /fun/topic.asp. I can't achieve URL consistency.
What I want is a custom url for every page. If I use [[Topic]] it should still point to /fun/topic.asp.
Thanks, Castor
________________________________ From: Yury Katkov katkov.juriy@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Castor Troy castor_t@ymail.com Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Conversion of website to Mediawiki
Right, that seems like a good solution. Google htaccess rewrite rules or something similar for your webserver if you don't use Apache. ----- Yury Katkov
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:57 PM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
I would just use your web servers re-write rules
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Castor Troy wrote:
I would like to convert my existing website of 6000+ pages to Mediawiki. I am willing to add content to a fresh installation of Mediawiki manually, but I want to retain the old urls. I understand that Mediawiki uses its own style of URLs. Is it possible that I can set a per-page url for every mediawiki page?
Eg: www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp When I create a new page mediawiki creates www.mysite.com/Topic, but I want to set the url to (www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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What you are trying to do isnt feasible. Just use re-write so you dont break incoming links, and use the new format everywhere else. It is a fairly common tactic that websites use
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Castor Troy castor_t@ymail.com wrote:
If I use re-write rules, I will be able to forward /fun/topic.asp to /Topic. But when I use [[Topic]] in new MediaWiki pages, it will be /Topic and not be /fun/topic.asp. I can't achieve URL consistency.
What I want is a custom url for every page. If I use [[Topic]] it should still point to /fun/topic.asp.
Thanks, Castor
From: Yury Katkov katkov.juriy@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Castor Troy castor_t@ymail.com Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Conversion of website to Mediawiki
Right, that seems like a good solution. Google htaccess rewrite rules or something similar for your webserver if you don't use Apache.
Yury Katkov
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:57 PM, John phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
I would just use your web servers re-write rules
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Castor Troy wrote:
I would like to convert my existing website of 6000+ pages to Mediawiki. I am willing to add content to a fresh installation of Mediawiki manually, but I want to retain the old urls. I understand that Mediawiki uses its own style of URLs. Is it possible that I can set a per-page url for every mediawiki page?
Eg: www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp When I create a new page mediawiki creates www.mysite.com/Topic, but I want to set the url to (www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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