Hello!

I have Mediawiki 1.15 installed with Apache 2.2.

I have created some virtual namespace (similar to categories) called Rubric. The articles can belong to one ore more rubrics. I want to use this namespace instead of Categories by some reasons.

And I need to show these Rubrics' content. For example: http://mysite.com/wiki/Rubric:Economy/ should open a list of articles under Economy rubric. I've created a special page which does that. So, now I can open http://mysite.com/wiki/Special:Rubric/Economy and view Economy's content. It works, no problem.

But I want to get rid of Special namespace in the URL! Can I do that? I've tried several RewriteRules in the apache's .htacces, but failed so far... The last try is:

============================================================================= RewriteEngine On RewriteRule wiki/Rubric:(.*)$ wiki/Special:Rubric/$1 RewriteRule wiki/(.*)$ w/index.php?title=$1 [L] =============================================================================

It does not work. When I'm opening http://mysite.com/wiki/Rubric:Economy/ this rule still opens "Rubric:Economy" instead of "Special:Rubric/Economy" and says "there is no text on the page blah-blah-blah..." What do I do wrong?

NOTE: I need an internal redirect. The external one works, but that's not what I want. I mean, this one:

RewriteRule wiki/Rubric:(.*)$ wiki/Special:Rubric/$1 [R,L]

works great of course, but it results in that the Special namespace presents in the URL.

Best regards. Michael Wozowoy

e-mail: strannik@cnt.ru