Manual talk:$wgActionPaths

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[edit] "action" Directory

I created an "action" directory with an '.htaccess' and an 'index.php'.

# .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/(.*?)$ ../index.php?action=$1&title=$2

<?php
# index.php
header('Location: ../');
exit;
?>

From the visitor's side, it's identical. I did this because it would not work in conjunction with my other RewriteRules. Egingell 07:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alternate Option

On my setup, it would appear that using a '.htaccess' in the wiki root and using:

RewriteRule ^/action/([a-z]*)/(.*)$ /index.php?action=$1&title=$2 [L,QSA]

doesn't work as suggested. Using 'RewriteLog', I found that the following works:

RewriteRule ^action/([a-z]*)/(.*)$ index.php?action=$1&title=$2 [L,QSA]

Hope this helps somebody. Jean-Lou Dupont 01:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Helped me! I had the same problem. You are a legend. Thank you Jldupont! -- 04:56, 12 May 2007 58.10.167.198

Neither works for me, presumably because of my other rewriting. =/ Sy Ali 00:34, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infinite Loop

Using RewriteRule ^/action/([a-z]*)/(.*)$ /index.php?action=$1&title=$2 [L,QSA]

on my .htaccess on (1)(2)(3) and (4) i get an infinite loop :|

RewriteEngine On
(1)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
(2)
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) wiki/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]
(3)
RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA]
(4)

any ideas? LuisManson

1. I don't know.
2. The rule matches everything including 'index.php' (add RewriteRule !^wiki/index.php$ - [C] just before it).
3. Same story as number 2.
4. If RewriteRule ^/*$ wiki/ [L,QSA] is number 4, it's still the same problem as numbers 2 and 3.

Egingell 07:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] lighttpd and url rewriting

in your vhost conf or something:

url.rewrite-once = (
		 "^/wiki/$" => "/w/index.php",
     		 "^/wiki/a/([a-z]*)/(.*)$" => "/w/index.php?title=$2&action=$1"
)
url.redirect = ( "^/(?!w|!^wiki/index.php$|wiki|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)(.*)" => "/wiki/a/$1" )

in LocalSettings.php or wherever:

$wikiRoot = "/wiki";
$wgScript = "{$wgScriptPath}/index.php";
$actions = array('view', 'edit', 'watch', 'unwatch', 'delete',
		 'revert', 'rollback', 'protect',
		 'unprotect','info','markpatrolled','validate',
		 'render','deletetrackback','print',
		 'dublincore','creativecommons','credits',
		 'submit','viewsource','history','purge'
    );
foreach ($actions as $a)
{
    $wgActionPaths[$a] = "{$wikiRoot}/action/$a/$1";
}
$wgArticlePath = "{$wikiRoot}/action/view/$1";

BTW, I don't know if you noticed - I hope you did ;) - that in the lighttpd part, I flipped the rewritten substitutions (I think that's what they're called): "^/wiki/a/([a-z]*)/(.*)$" => "/w/index.php?title=$2&action=$1" -- see the $2 , then $1 ? I did that, otherwise it wouldn't work. I imagine I would have to compensate for older MW installs, that had the action=FOO&title=BAR instead of title=BAR&action=FOO like it is now. Seems to me lighttpd and MW are taking the query string very literally (which is of course a big fat "duh!").

(I didn't use the syntax highlighting, I don't remember the, um, syntax.)

-- Kjikaqawej 08:47, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ...as for apache

I suppose you could very easily do this for an apache-based mediawiki, since I pretty much ripped the rewrites from that ;).

-- Kjikaqawej 08:49, 6 September 2008 (UTC)