Hi, I recently installed MediaWiki [1] (as used and developed on/by WikiPedia [2]). This wiki software allows an intuitive use of URLs as long as the host admin has patched his apache to allow the proper rewrite rules [3].
As Gentoo is about to support this software, we cannot expect every host admin to patch their installed apache software by hand (not everyone knows how to do this). MediaWiki officially provides a patch for apache 1.3.x. Since the development goes towards 2.0 (and 2.1) I adapted the patch to 2.0 [4]. I actually put this patch to our patchset of apache 2.0 wich will be soon available to the main users. However, keeping track on patches each new release makes no fun at all, also, this new functionality introduced by MediaWiki to mod_rewrite is a general purpose function. Though, I'd like to request you to commit this patch [4] to HEAD, so, that it can be available by upstream from apache 2.1 and later. Best Regards, Christian Parpart. p.s.: that patch is just about 50 lines, it's trivial and shouldn't make any problems though. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/ [2] http://www.wikipedia.org/ [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_Rules#httpd.conf [4] http://dev.gentoo.org/~trapni/dist/06_all_mod_rewrite_ampescape.patch -- Netiquette: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt 21:25:00 up 21 days, 13:54, 2 users, load average: 0.88, 0.87, 0.82
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