On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Alan Burlison<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Now I am really confused - even mediawiki automatically manages the
>> redirects needed when pages are renamed, joined or deleted. Are you
>> saying XWiki doesn't even implement this simple and obvious
>> housekeeping task?
>
> These redirects are from the outside into XWiki, not internal ones.
I don't see the problem - unless XWiki is more feature-limited than
I'd been led to expect. Follow my logic and tell me what breaks:
Today, we have an important page on the old site that people just need
to see :-)
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/arc-faq/arc-review-overview/
The transition process maps it into XWiki
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+arc/arc%2Dreview%2Doverview
A redirect is manually put in place that causes apache to map the
first to the second.
At this point in time, I - as an ARC community menber - go in and
rename the page from "arc%2Dreview%2Doverview" to simply "Overview"
If this was mediawiki, mediawiki would simply remember that the page
was renamed and add a "virtual redirect" to its internal page name
table:
arc%2Dreview%2Doverview => Overview
This is where you assert things would break, and I express disbelief
that anyone would choose a wiki engine that didn't have this feature -
or if they did, that they didn't quickly add it. Lets walk thru the
use of the original URL:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/arc-faq/arc-review-overview/
Apache uses url rewriting to turn this into
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+arc/arc%2Dreview%2Doverview
The wiki notices that the page named "arc%2Dreview%2Doverview" has
been moved, and so internally redirects the browser to "Overview"
Are you saying that XWiki can't/doesn't remap page names as they are
renamed/moved?
-John
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