Difference between revisions of "Friendly URL's"
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Revision as of 20:45, 17 May 2008
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Mod-rewrite rules
We use mod-rewrite to change the illegally formatted "friendly" request into a legitimate request directed at the index.php script like usual. Mod-rewrite is used to specify a condition pattern, and a transformation rule to apply to the URL if it matches the condition pattern. Our mod-rewrite directives are as follows:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) /index.php/Main_Page [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(wiki|files)/
RewriteRule ^/(.*) /index.php/$1 [L]
The first condition and rule pair handles requests to the naked domain name and rewrites the to Main_Page so that the URL doesn't get appended with the "Main Page" name. The second pair says not to touch any URL's which start with /wiki/ or /files/, this protects all old-style article requests, and requests to internal MediaWiki files like scripts or images. It also allows other directories of web documents outside the wiki such as http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/files/od/media
The re-write rule then assumes everything after the leading slash to be an article name and reformats the URL accordingly. Currently the only MediaWiki global used for the rewrite rules is;
It is set inside all default domains LocalSettings.php files through an include of a script called wikia.php (See Special:WikiaInfo) to make the friendly form the default way of rendering links. Links involving a query-string will use the usual format.
Bug fixes
- It was transforming to ...index.php?title=$1, but this cause the ampersand bug, see 17 February 2007 news item.
- Its been improved now so that URL's are only left alone if requesting a folder (following slash) of name starting with lowercase W. This fixes a bug where articles starting with W had to be specified with capital first letter. --Nad 14:25, 14 Feb 2006 (NZDT)
- Friendly URL's were updated again on 23 June 2007 to allow the main page to use the completely naked domain name --Nad 23:40, 23 June 2007 (NZST)
