I finally made some updates to the ShortURL builder tool.
- Error pages include a mailto link to report errors. - I finally updated the output to match the updates made to Manual:Short_URL/Apache (No Alias, replace %{REQUEST_FILENAME} with something that works, and update the flags) - I finally tested out apache2+fastcgi+php-fpm to see how to handle short urls config in that case and updated the builder to handle it ( ;) short story, after 4-5 hours of fighting multiple types of config I finally got something to work and found that configuring short urls for fastcgi is exactly the same apache config as for mod_php)
One of these days I'm going to need Windows Apache, ISS, etc... test environments to determine how to handle short urls there.
Eventually sometime in the future we may actually have enough knowledge to include short url configuration inside the installer. ((Though we'll probably wait till after entrypoint routing -- including builtin 404 thumbnail handling -- is implemented.))