Is it possible? Or do I need to switch service providers? If so, can
anyone recommend a good one for MediaWiki, with good support (ideally
phone support)?
Thanks,
Chris
Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Rowan Collins wrote:
>
>> Moonlight Embrace wrote:
>>
>>> My webhost has just transferred one server to another, and in the
>>> process decided to run PHP as cgi! I no longer have pretty urls. Is
>>> there anything I can do about this?
>>
>>
>> I may be wrong, but isn't the pretty URLs thing down to mod_rewrite,
>> and independent of PHP? I understood it to just be interpretting the
>> short URLs as though they were the long ones. In which case, all you
>> have to do is play around with .htaccess until the rewrite rule works
>> properly [again].
>
>
> When PHP is run with the normal apachehandler or apache2handler server
> APIs, you can place a slash and additional data after the script
> filename, and it's passed on to the script (index.php/Main_Page).
> MediaWiki uses this preferentially to index.php?title=Main_Page when
> available.
>
> In CGI mode this doesn't work, so setting up rewrite rules is necessary.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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anyone recommend a good one for MediaWiki, with good support (ideally
phone support)?
Thanks,
Chris
Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Rowan Collins wrote:
>
>> Moonlight Embrace wrote:
>>
>>> My webhost has just transferred one server to another, and in the
>>> process decided to run PHP as cgi! I no longer have pretty urls. Is
>>> there anything I can do about this?
>>
>>
>> I may be wrong, but isn't the pretty URLs thing down to mod_rewrite,
>> and independent of PHP? I understood it to just be interpretting the
>> short URLs as though they were the long ones. In which case, all you
>> have to do is play around with .htaccess until the rewrite rule works
>> properly [again].
>
>
> When PHP is run with the normal apachehandler or apache2handler server
> APIs, you can place a slash and additional data after the script
> filename, and it's passed on to the script (index.php/Main_Page).
> MediaWiki uses this preferentially to index.php?title=Main_Page when
> available.
>
> In CGI mode this doesn't work, so setting up rewrite rules is necessary.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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> MediaWiki-l mailing list
> MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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Director of Research
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology http://CRNano.org