[Mediawiki-l] Difficulty with changing the alias in Ubuntu 10.04 with mediawiki

[David Gerard]

On 28 June 2010 11:41, Vincent Baier (RIT Student) <vjb4501 at rit.edu> wrote:

> The results of various modifications of these have either been a seemingly
> working redirect from apache to a blank page with now source. Or a redirect
> loop warning. If anybody could help me get these URLs cleaned up I would
> really appreciate it. Also, I have been trying to find this for some time,
> but is there any place where the ubuntu packages are ACTUALLY documented?
> They rarely follow the standard configuration of what they contain (apache,
> mysql, etc) and the absurd number of symbolic links in many of them makes
> their folder structure almost impossible to navigate around and determine
> which files correspond to the original configuration files of the software.
> Some package specific documentation resources would really help.


+1

I can't help, but have been similarly annoyed by Debian's insistence
on doing everything its own way. If anyone can make a start on writing
this up for mediawiki.org, that would be most helpful ...


- d.