Huib Laurens wrote: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory is not > related right? > > We aren't going to run the wiki in the root, that will stay in /w/ we are > only looking for a shorter url if I'm correct.
It's mostly related. It doesn't really matter where your physical files are, short URLs are implemented through rewrite rules. If you rewrite into the root directory, you cause problems with files such as "favicon.ico" and "robots.txt". In general, it's just considered poor form and the "savings" (5 bytes in the URL bar) aren't worth the headache. Having a clean namespace, as Paul Houle suggests, is the way to go. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
