On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:17:47 -0700, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.comwrote:
To top off the issues with Alias, it can't be used to setup a 404
image
thumbnail handler and it can't be used in the future plans of
MediaWiki
handling 404s internally.
Don't Wikimedia wikis use Alias? How are they going to handle this?
Rephrase, how are they handling this?
As far as MediaWiki is concerned Alias and RewriteRules are no different. They both send things to index.php and include a REQUEST_URI. So nothing is going to change with Wikimedia.
This is just dropping Alias as the recommended way of setting up a short url and instead only giving instructions on using the rewrite engine.
Also note by the way, that at the moment this thread is primarily about changing the recommended setup in our documentation. Afaik MediaWiki can and will (at least for a long while to come) support both. Even more because the default set up out of the box is /w/index.php/Page_name, and the only way we can make sure existing wikis don't break is by supporting this.
Btw, on a related note the plan in 1.20 is to stop outputting /index.php/Article style urls by default. That config setup creates a number of issues and has almost none of the advantages that short urls have. Note that the router has a default /index.php/$1 rule so even though we will no longer output PATH_INFO style URLs bookmarks linking to PATH_INFO style urls will not break. Also if a wiki is absolutely obsessed with these messed up urls it's a very simple one-line config tweak to turn them back on.
-- Krinkle