[Wikitech-l] RE: Short URLs

Brion, Thanks for your reply. I have subscribed to the list, as you suggested. I don't understand what you mean by polluting my name space. My URL *is* a virtual directory. I use subdomains to keep my domain space "unpolluted": http://kerim.oxus.net http://wiki.oxus.net http://keywords.oxus.net http://forums.oxus.net This seems like a pretty standard practice on many webservers, not sure I understand what MediaWiki has against it. I have never had any problems with this, except for WikiMedia 1.4. In fact, you helped me set up the .htaccess when I installed WikiMedia 1.5. (At the time I had problems with domain forwarding which you helped me resolve.) The settings from my old LocalSettings.php and .htaccess file (both of which I have saved) do not seem to work with 1.5. Thanks for your help! Kerim From: Brion Vibber <brion <at> pobox.com> Subject: Re: Short URLs Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical Date: 2005-07-09 18:28:23 GMT (1 hour and 9 minutes ago) Kerim Friedman wrote: I strongly recommend against this, as it pollutes your URL namespace and may create conflicts. You should always put your rewrite area in a virtual directory. That's the default. Did you throw away your old LocalSettings.php? Is that the same as what you did before? The rewrite configuration would be exactly the same on 1.3.x and 2.0.x so far as I know. Please subscribe to mailing lists that you post to so your message doesn't go in the spam queue. :) -- brion vibber (brion <at> pobox.com) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l <at> wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l