Rowan, Thanks for the quick reply. I tried the Special:Export option and was moderately successful, but I did run into trouble bringing the templates over. Looking at http://www.wikitography.org/wiki/Template:H:f for example should give you an idea of the trouble I'm encountering. I feel like i'm close and I hope it's just the templates that are hanging me up. As far as legality, both Meta and my project are under GFDL so I should be ok there. I've been documenting what works for me along the way, so once this is complete I'll try to throw together a coherent howto. I can't code, but at least I can write. ~Terry Rowan Collins wrote:

On 17/01/06, Graeme Canivet <gjcanive(a)uwaterloo.ca> wrote: Dunno. Bad voodoo, I guess. This is a rewrite Apache does automatically for appropriate scripts, without the need for any specific setup - since a script can't also be a directory, the name is unambiguous, so if Apache didn't treat it specially, it would be a 404 anyway. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

Hey Brion, I read those FAQs, and did not find the answer I'm looking for.... How does apache translate the $1 part of $wgScript/$1 into the get variable 'article'. Or, perhaps apache puts it into a predefined variable that MediaWiki uses -- I checked the source code, but perhaps I have to delve deeper? Unless you know what it is? I'll have to try some tests and phpinfo it..... Thank you Brion (and Rowan too), Graeme -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: January 17, 2006 12:45 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] $wgArticlePath when using CGI Graeme Canivet wrote: In most cases, the additional PATH_INFO bit doesn't work with PHP in CGI mode. All kinds of ugly loops and breakage result. If you really know it works, you can poke around and change it. There's an entire document dedicated to such topics; see the MediaWiki FAQ. (Link is in the README, the RELEASE-NOTES and can also be easily googled.) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)