On Nov 11, 2003, at 09:57, Gabriel O'Brien wrote:
I'm trying to get a MediaWiki implementation running over here: http://aikiwiki.quay.net/ and everything seems to be OK, except for one problem. I've got mod_rewrite running on Apache (v1.3.27 -- I have to leave it at 1.3 for now due to unrelated problems with another app) and it seems to have no trouble rewriting (for example) http://aikiwiki.quay.net/wiki/Ueshiba_Morihei but as soon as I modify "$wgArticlePath" from "{$wgScript}?title=$1" to "/wiki/$1" I can no longer access any of the "Special" pages such as "http://aikiwiki.quay.net/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Preferences" instead the link goes to "http://aikiwiki.quay.net/wiki/Special:Preferences" and it's treated like an empty article.
That sounds pretty weird... Could you post the rewrite rules?
I notice it does the same thing for other pages w/ namespaces:
http://aiwiki.quay.net/w/wiki.phtml?title=Aikiwiki:Naming_Conventions http://aiwiki.quay.net/wiki/Aikiwiki:Naming_Conventions
which makes me suspicious it's something about the colon.
Thanks for your help guys! Also an unrelated question, what is the difference between sysop and developer permissions?
'Developer' used to have some special abilities like read/write SQL access through Special:Asksql. It's been decided that's just too dangerous to run over unencrypted HTTP, so it's been taken out. 'developer' now provides only:
Special:Debug -- runs phpinfo() Special:Lockdb -- set the global read-only lock Special:Unlockdb -- unset the global read-only lock
These can be done manually as well, so may eventually get phased out entirely.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)