Kerim Friedman wrote:
Brion,
Thanks for your reply. I have subscribed to the list, as you suggested.
Looks like you're not subscribed with the address you're posting from, so the mailing list is still putting your postings in the spam queue.
I don't understand what you mean by polluting my name space. My URL *is* a virtual directory. I use subdomains to keep my domain space "unpolluted":
http://kerim.oxus.net http://wiki.oxus.net http://keywords.oxus.net http://forums.oxus.net
This seems like a pretty standard practice on many webservers, not sure I understand what MediaWiki has against it. I have never had any problems with this, except for WikiMedia 1.4.
See my explanation at eg: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-July/030720.html
Putting the wiki redirector at the base URL obscures real files. If you make special exceptions for those files (at least, those you think of), you can never have wiki pages with those titles. If you have wiki pages with a given title, you can never have a real file with that name. It creates inconsistencies and holes and bugs, and things that will look for certain files and get back a wiki page unexpectedly, etc etc.
Bad bad mojo. Don't go there.
Note that files include global crap like robots.txt and favicon.ico, as well as all the wiki's support files, not just stuff you put in yourself.
In fact, you helped me set up the .htaccess when I installed WikiMedia 1.5. (At the time I had problems with domain forwarding which you helped me resolve.)
If I helped you with that, then I'm sure I warned you at that time not to use the root directory. Nobody ever heeds my warnings, though. :)
The settings from my old LocalSettings.php and .htaccess file (both of which I have saved) do not seem to work with 1.5.
They should work identically. Any further assistance would require seeing what these settings are, and a detailed description of what goes wrong. Please confirm that you have cleared browser caches and the parser cache ('DELETE FROM objectcache') prior to testing.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)