Never mind! Daniel, THANK YOU. Further exploration of the redwerks.org site got me where I needed to be. It's working perfectly so far. Thanks again!
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Matthew Wayne Selznick <mwselzn...@gmail.com> wrote: > After following Daniel's advice and muddling through the very useful > shorturls.redwerks.org, I'm getting close... my previous short URLs > don't work, though. For example, > http://www.mattselznick.com/thehumanitycontinuum/wiki/Special:SpecialPages > results in a 404. However, > http://www.mattselznick.com/thehumanitycontinuum/wiki/index.php?title=Special:SpecialPages > DOES work. > > Thoughts / guidance on getting me this last yard would be much appreciated...! > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Matthew Wayne Selznick > <mwselzn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> >> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Daniel Friesen >> <dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote: >>> - I don't recommend blacklisting php for uploads that way (that's not >>> even protecting the wiki uploads anyways, is it?). A much nicer way is >>> to enclose the .php handler such that when you define an empty location >>> for the images dir the php handler simply doesn't exist under that path >>> anymore. >> >> Makes sense. I'll have to learn a bit more before I understand quite >> how to act on that advice! Meanwhile, I'll comment it out. >> >>> - The final entry for the try_files in your wiki section points to >>> WordPress, not MediaWiki. >>> Proper nginx config for MediaWiki looks closer to this: >>> http://shorturls.redwerks.org/?source=userdata&fcgi_params=%2Fetc%2Fnginx%2Ffastcgi_params&has_root=1&fcgi_pass=127.0.0.1%3A9000&script=%2Fthehumanitycontinuum%2Findex.php&hashed_uploads=1&mod_php=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page&server=nginx&articlepath=%2Fthehumanitycontinuum%2Fwiki%2F%241&thumb_handler=on >>> >>> What is the path to MediaWiki's index.php? >> >> http://www.mattselznick.com/thehumanitycontinuum/wiki/ >> >> This is very helpful, but I am still learning. Am I to understand that >> I would add the conf info from the above link in the wiki's location >> block? >> >> >> -- >> Matthew Wayne Selznick >> Author, Creator and Creative Services Provider >> http://www.mattselznick.com >> Get a Free Sampler of My Short Stories, Novels, and Non-Fiction: >> http://www.mattselznick.com/free-ebook > > > > -- > Matthew Wayne Selznick > Author, Creator and Creative Services Provider > http://www.mattselznick.com > Get a Free Sampler of My Short Stories, Novels, and Non-Fiction: > http://www.mattselznick.com/free-ebook -- Matthew Wayne Selznick Author, Creator and Creative Services Provider http://www.mattselznick.com Get a Free Sampler of My Short Stories, Novels, and Non-Fiction: http://www.mattselznick.com/free-ebook _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
