Thread:Project:Support desk/Trying to set up Short URL's

Hi,

I've been asked to change our wiki site complete to short URL's. I've looked at the media-wiki manual on short URL's at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache  at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

I haven't touched the $wgArticlePath or other mediawiki variables so any new article created will by default have the wiki address such as http://www.mypedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Article_1 However, I've editted the Apache rewrite rules so that Apache's doing the work so www.mypedia.com/wiki/Article_1 will redirect to the default wiki address at http://www.mypedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Article_1

However, my client has asked me to change the wiki itself so that when any new article created in the wiki it will automatically create an article URL such as www.mypedia.com/wiki/New_Article and get rid of the index.php?title=New_Article. This would then be like Wikipedia, which has also done away with the index.php?title=New_Article. For example, Tiger Woods is just http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods  I've read that a wiki can be inherently unstable if it is changed to make new articles have a short URL like www.mypedia.com/wiki/New_Article rather than www.mypedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=New_Article And what happens to the old articles that have been created the old way?

Please advise. Thanks.

Peter