[Mediawiki-l] Fwd: Translate/Rewrite beautified pretty ugly URLs-works except for special characters in article titles

Fri May 5 12:49:39 UTC 2006

Good point, I guess I have been mixing two separate issues: I'll continue to

investigate IIS, ISAPI_Rewrite rules and translation of pretty URL's
elsewhere.

So what would cause my instance of MW to generate article links differently
for some special characters?  In my case, MW crafts the link to an article
containing a ( in the title with %28 to replace the "(". But MW doesn't
replace "." with "%2E" or replace "/"s with ""%2F" when creating links.

My instance created both links below:

Example1 ( MW doesn't encode "/"s when creating the link)
Article title "Meeting of 02/22/06"
http://mysite.com/wiki/index.php?title=Meeting_of_02/22/06

Example2 (MW encodes "(" and ")" to %28 and %29)
Article title "Integration Assistant (IA)"
http://mysite.com/wiki/index.php?title=Integration_Assistant%28IA%29

Thanks again for your patience,
Brian

On 5/4/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Brian Carpenter wrote:
> > Not to beat a dead horse...
> > But is this an IIS problem as MediaWiki is not crafting all the URLs as
> > 'pretty'?
>
> Sure it does. If your web server is broken and not interpreting those URLs
> correctly, that's the fault of the web server configuration.
>
> Perhaps you think pretty URLs are something different from what we think
> they
> are, so let me be clear.
>
> Here's a sample of an ugly URL:
>
> /some_path?title=My_cool_page_title
>
> Here's a sample of a pretty URL:
>
> /some_path/My_cool_path_title
>
> The difference is that pretty URLs pass the page title in the URL's path
> component, while ugly URLs pass the title as a query string parameter.
> Other
> than that there is no inherent difference in appearance or encoding.
>
> By default MediaWiki will create pretty URLs for straight article views if
> it
> detects that your PHP configuration is capable of supporting this, using
> the
> default path through the script name (eg /index.php/My_cool_page_title).
>
> By default MediaWiki will create ugly URLs for other actions, though
> simple
> cases can also be set to produce pretty URLs by setting up $wgActionPaths.
>
> Any use of pretty URLs requires that your web server be configured
> appropriately
> to pass that title data on to MediaWiki in some way. In a typical
> Apache+mod_php
> configuration, additional path components after the script name are passed
> to
> the script as $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']. In other configurations it may or may
> not
> be so passed. Rewriting incoming URLs to query string parameters is also
> possible, but requires that you be careful of encoding issues to ensure
> that all
> characters are handled correctly (Apache gets it wrong by default).
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
>
>
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