There have been some recent changes to the recommended RewriteConfig rules implying that without them VisualEditor is broken.
- https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Short_URL/Apache&diff=prev&oldid=5457107 first adding a
!^(VisualEditor)check. - https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Short_URL/Apache&diff=next&oldid=5569958 then changing that to a
!^/w/rest\.phpcheck.
Can anyone provide some reference to this issue and confirm that it's real and not just speculation added by some users?
The first change targets the VisualEditor user agent but the second asserts that it's just rest.php that needs to not be rewritten. However the RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f line is already supposed to be enough to stop Apache from rewriting rest.php (otherwise it would be rewriting index.php, thumb.php, etc). So this recommendation should be redundant.
I would like to know because if it's a real change we need to make to the recommended Short URL config, then I'd like to update the ShortURL Builder tool. And if it's not actually necessary for VisualEditor to work, then the modification to the page should be reverted.