Brion,
Thanks for your reply. I have subscribed to the list, as you suggested.
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.
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.)
The settings from my old LocalSettings.php and .htaccess file (both of which I have saved) do not seem to work with 1.5.
Thanks for your help!
Kerim
From: Brion Vibber <brion <at> pobox.com> Subject: Re: Short URLs Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical Date: 2005-07-09 18:28:23 GMT (1 hour and 9 minutes ago)
Kerim Friedman wrote:
I just upgraded my Wiki http://wiki.oxus.net from 1.3.x to 1.4.x. Everything went fine, with one major problem: I no longer have the same URL structure I used to have. Before my site urls looked like this:
I strongly recommend against this, as it pollutes your URL namespace and may create conflicts. You should always put your rewrite area in a virtual directory.
now they look like this:
That's the default. Did you throw away your old LocalSettings.php?
I tried following the instructions on this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_a_very_short_URL
But they do not work.
Is that the same as what you did before?
I did some searching but couldn't find any solution that works with Apache 1.3.x, so I thought I'd write to the group to see if anywone has figured out a work around?
The rewrite configuration would be exactly the same on 1.3.x and 2.0.x so far as I know.
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