On 09/07/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/9/07, jidanni@jidanni.org jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Also if rewriting was so cool, then it would be the default and one wouldn't need to follow instructions to implement it.
It would be the default except it requires configuration that we can't necessarily do. We can't, for instance, predict what target directory you may want to use. If you install and /w/ and rewrite to /wiki/, great, but maybe you install to / or /mywiki/ or /wiki/ or want to rewrite to / or /mywiki/ or /w/. All we can do, which we *do* do if possible, is use index.php/ as the pseudo-directory to rewrite to, because we can guarantee that exists and should be unused by anything else.
Not to mention that the best approach, using an Alias, normally requires access to httpd.conf, and I would hope that MediaWiki couldn't write to *that*, nor perform the restart required to make it take effect.
Rob Church