Manual talk:Very short URL

Terrible
this guide is god awful. Why not move each way that a person can modify a Very short url to the talk page until a couple of other people confirm that it works, or somehow keep track of which way works Odessaukrain 08:30, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I moved this terrible explanation to talk (here) the solutions will go to the another page. {|border=1

The ampersand problem
A correct edit URL in this scheme would look like:

http://wiki.site.tld/Article_Name?action=edit

'''One of the many problems with this scheme is that you cannot separate edit pages and other dynamic content from the plain page views in robots.txt. This means you either must hide your entire site from search engines, or you will receive much more load from spiders than you would like.'''

After rewriting, we want the URL to look like this:

http://wiki.site.tld/index.php?title=Article_Name&action=edit

There is no need to patch Apache -- using [QSA] on the rewrite rule does this automatically.
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Odessaukrain 18:48, 6 October 2007 (UTC)