User talk:AgmLauncher

URL shortening doesn't actually work

Re: Manual talk:Short URL

Posted 21 October, 2008

It "works" in so far as it shortens the url, but any interface/UI links are still using the technical link format (e.g. site.com/w/index.php?title=something&value=something) rather than a clean link like wikipedia uses (e.g. wikipedia.org/wiki/pagetitle). This will simply cause confusion with people as to what a link should really be, and it's just sloppy.

What's the proper way to structure or modify the wiki source code so that

1. index.php does not exist at all

or

2. the actual links in the UI and on the page are shortened appropriately?

In otherwords, how does wikipedia do it?

Shortening does work properly (just like Wikipedia) if set up properly per the appropriate recipe -- see Navas Wireless Wiki, set up with the Manual:Short URL/wiki/Page title -- GoDaddy Shared Linux Subdomain recipe -- so you probably messed up when trying to set it up, but I can't even hazard a guess as to what you did wrong since you've not provided any details. ;)

--John Navas 17:50, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

p.s. Please note the warning in bold face at the top of this page.

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