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

I was unable to get this working using RewriteEngine, however using Alias did. I added:

Alias /wiki "/var/www/html/w/index.php/"

And everything works great. I did this in httpd.conf, which won't work if you don't have access to it.

Is there any reason why this wouldn't be a good idea?

-John