Thread:Manual talk:Short URL/Apache/Using Alias instead of RewriteEngine/reply

Alias basically turns /wiki/Foo into /w/index.php/Foo rather than just telling Apache to load index.php. I can't remember the specific things that ended up different but it isn't ideal.

In what way did it break when you tried configuring it with RewriteEngine? Was it a 404 or a 500 error? If it was a 500 error, what showed up in the error log?