[Mediawiki-l] Pretty URLs with Zeus?

[Chris Phoenix]

Is it possible?  Or do I need to switch service providers?  If so, can 
anyone recommend a good one for MediaWiki, with good support (ideally 
phone support)?

Thanks,
Chris

Brion Vibber wrote:

> On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Rowan Collins wrote:
> 
>> Moonlight Embrace wrote:
>>
>>> My webhost has just transferred one server to another, and in the 
>>> process decided to run PHP as cgi! I no longer have pretty urls. Is 
>>> there anything I can do about this?
>>
>>
>> I may be wrong, but isn't the pretty URLs thing down to mod_rewrite,
>> and independent of PHP? I understood it to just be interpretting the
>> short URLs as though they were the long ones. In which case, all you
>> have to do is play around with .htaccess until the rewrite rule works
>> properly [again].
> 
> 
> When PHP is run with the normal apachehandler or apache2handler server 
> APIs, you can place a slash and additional data after the script 
> filename, and it's passed on to the script (index.php/Main_Page). 
> MediaWiki uses this preferentially to index.php?title=Main_Page when 
> available.
> 
> In CGI mode this doesn't work, so setting up rewrite rules is necessary.
> 
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
> 
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