- From: Rotan Hanrahan <rotan.hanrahan@mobileaware.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:34:06 +0100
- To: <public-wiki-dev@w3.org>
I figure that for paths whose root is that of MediaWiki, it's the MediaWiki response that needs to be modified as it. See what happens when you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThisPageDoesNotExist and you see that MediaWiki responds to the unknown page by offering to create a new one. I want to modify this behaviour so that it recognises a URL pattern belonging to a moinmoin attachment and calculates a redirect. That means digging into the MW code, and I'm not prepared to do that right now. (Especially as the server belongs to W3C and I'm not in the systeam.) ---Rotan -----Original Message----- From: public-wiki-dev-request@w3.org [mailto:public-wiki-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Alan Ruttenberg Sent: 19 October 2007 14:38 To: Rotan Hanrahan Cc: public-wiki-dev@w3.org Subject: Re: Porting attachment URLs 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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