[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia down right now ?

[Jimmy Wales]

http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Perfect_number
seems to work fine for me.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki.cgi?Perfect_number
also seems to work fine for me.

So for pages that already exist, the rewriting seems to be fine.

Your particular example is interesting, because there is not literally a page
called "Foo".  For this, I get different results for the two, and I don't know
off the top of my head why that should be.  But you're write, it is something
anomolous with the mod_rewrite rules.

Patrick Spinler wrote:

> 
> My apologies if this is redundant, I don't follow this mailing list.
> 
> As of the moment of my typing, addresses of the form:
> 
>   http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
> 
> give a 404 error.  Since every link in ths system is of this form, that
> means things are broken. :-(
> 
> However, address of the form
> 
>   http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki.cgi?Foo
> 
> work.
> 
> Has there been a recent httpd rules change ?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Pat
> 
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