Re: [MediaWiki-l] Painful Short-URL

2016-06-08 Thread Jan Steinman
> From: Jonathan Aquilina > > Have you tried enabling mod_rewrite if you are on apache and setting up > some rewrite rules in .htaccess? > > Jonathan Aquilina This is what I use: Alias "/wiki/stylesheets" "/Library/WebServer/EcoReality/wiki/stylesheets"

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Links in templates?

2016-06-08 Thread John
A little more context is needed is this a public wiki? is the template in a ref tag? have you tried using just the user link creation by itself (in case other template markup is breaking it)? On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote: > I've been having difficulties assembling int

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-06-08 Thread John
Two Yeah things might be happening. Try opening the page with the red link in a private/incognito mode tab to check if it is your browser caching or the server. second try running runjobs.php and ensuring that its just not a queue issue On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote:

[MediaWiki-l] Links in templates?

2016-06-08 Thread Emanuele D'Arrigo
I've been having difficulties assembling internal links within templates. A standard link such as [[User:Alice|Alice]] works just fine. But if I try to do something like: [[User:{{{user|Unknown}}}|{{{user|Unknown}}}]] I get the content of the parameter "user" to appear, but it won't be a link. S

[MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-06-08 Thread Emanuele D'Arrigo
Greetings, quick intro: I have been a mediawiki user for a long time (wikipedia and within companies) but I only had a couple of stints at administering one. I am in the process of setting one up for my neighborhood - or about 65 families. It pretty much all works but as my neighbors includes any

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Painful Short-URL

2016-06-08 Thread kghbln
Heiya Jonathan, yeah, actually the rewriting stuff is done in the virtualhost configuration and works. It's just these b... umlauts and stuff ... ;) I will think of something else ... Would not like to change the provider but in the end. Cheers Karsten Am 08.06.2016 um 13:23 schrieb Jonathan Aq

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Painful Short-URL

2016-06-08 Thread kghbln
Heiya Ad, still need to add your name on the wiki if you would like to. :) Cheers Karsten Am 08.06.2016 um 08:52 schrieb Ad Strack van Schijndel: > Hi Karsten, > > The big question of course is why at all you are fishing in this water ... > > Why do you use this construction? > > By the way

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Painful Short-URL

2016-06-08 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Have you tried enabling mod_rewrite if you are on apache and setting up some rewrite rules in .htaccess? Jonathan Aquilina On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:43 AM, kghbln wrote: > Hi Ad, > > I guess it is a standard procedure to have Short-URL supporting > multibyte characters when using MediaWiki. Usin

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Painful Short-URL

2016-06-08 Thread kghbln
Hi Ad, I guess it is a standard procedure to have Short-URL supporting multibyte characters when using MediaWiki. Using this feature without having to do a backflip in some environments will be nice. Starting with MW 1.26+ there are issues and I currently do not know how I should do my backflip.