Is using rewrite a good idea, or would it be better to just redirect so
that there's only one actual URI? (I don't have an answer to that, just
asking.)

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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2013-02-26 6:56 PM, "Ryan Lane" <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:43 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Ryan Lane wrote:
> > > > At 1 PM I'll do the following:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Mark wikitech as read-only
> > > > 2. Add wikitech-old.wikimedia.org, pointing at the old wiki
> > > > 3. Change wikitech.wikimedia.org to labsconsole's IP
> > > > 4. Import all of the content to labsconsole
> > > > 5. Change labsconsole.wikimedia.org to wikitech.wikimedia.org
> > > >
> > > >[...]
> > >
> > > labsconsole.wikimedia.org and wikitech.wikimedia.org have different
> > > article view paths:
> > >
> > > * https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
> > > * http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Main_Page
> > >
> > > As long as the wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/ URL forms continue to
> work,
> I
> > > don't see any issue here. I suppose there are a few different ways to
> > > support this.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I have a rewrite rule on the new server for this, that I pushed in
> > yesterday:
> >
> > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/50856/
> >
> > - Ryan
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>
> It wasnt just /view, they also used /edit, /history, etc. I guess its less
> likely for people to link to these other action paths though.
> -bawolff
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