[Mediawiki-l] mod_rewrite again

[Jan Steinman]

On 23 Mar 2005, at 12:38, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> Add me to the list of folks pulling their hair out trying to get
> prettier urls to work with mediawiki.

I'm assuming you're using Apache, and have access to at least an 
included portion of httpd.conf.

Have you tried using Alias instead of RewriteRule?

I tried both under 1.4b5, and found Alias was slightly faster, and MUCH 
easier to understand. The RewriteRule technique may have some advantage 
I don't understand, which probably means I don't need it!

I have not tried it under 1.4 yet. I had to disable it in order to get 
at the config directory -- another good thing about pretty URLs. (And 
also, it's more likely to get crawled -- a mixed blessing.)

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