Dr. Volker Riediger wrote: > Dear folks, > > I need a solution for the following problem: > > In my MediaWiki, there was a huge tree of pages named like > > ...mywiki/a > ...mywiki/a/b > ...mywiki/a/b/c > ...mywiki/a/b/d > ...mywiki/a/e > ...mywiki/a/e/f > ...mywiki/a/e/g > and so on. > > > For some reason, I had to delete all those pages below "a" (done by > maintenance/deleteBatch.php). > > Now, I'd like to display a single information page if anybody uses an > outdated deep link instead of the usual message "There is currently no > text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or > edit this page." > > But I don't want to create 500+ redirects... Is there another way to > show "mywiki/a" when sombody uses "mywiki/a/b/c"? > > This means, each page with prefix "a/" shoud be redirected to "a".
You can check on mediawki:noarticletext with the proper parserfunction if you are at myqiki/a subtree, to show a different message. You could also perform a redirect at .htaccess level. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
