- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:37:45 -0400
- To: "Rotan Hanrahan" <rotan.hanrahan@mobileaware.com>
- Cc: <public-wiki-dev@w3.org>
Redirect would be best, IMO. Can you not do the redirect in the apache server or within a .htaccess? -Alan On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Rotan Hanrahan wrote: > I am porting from a moinmoin tarball of the data directory to a > live MediaWiki installation. I am trying to preserve the URLs > despite the intended switch in the wiki engine. Maintaining the > page URLs seems easy enough (except perhaps for some using non- > ASCII characters in the name). However, I notice that moinmoin > attachments have URLs of the form: > > <wikipath>/PageName?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=attachment.ext > > > In this case there is no obvious way for me to preserve this URL > when the attachment is moved to a MediaWiki server. I propose > therefore to map all such URLs to the following MediaWiki-friendly > form: > > <Wikipath>/PageName/Attachments/attachment.ext > > > and include in the MediaWiki’s 404 response page a message to > explain the mapping, in case anyone is looking for the URL to the > attachment. In theory I could automate this response so that an > appropriate redirect is executed, but right now I’m not keen to > manipulate the MediaWiki code. > > Does anyone have any comment on this strategy? > > ---Rotan. >
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