[pmwiki-users] Clean URLS cookbook question

[Joachim Durchholz]

Patrick R. Michaud schrieb:
> Perhaps CleanUrls should itself be an overview page, with a
> description of the approaches and links to CleanUrlsRewrite, 
> CleanUrlsAlias, and CleanUrlsScript, or something like that.
> Or, we can leave CleanUrls as being focused on mod_rewrite
> (since it's the most popular approach), but if we do that there
> should be easy-to-find links to the other approaches (even if
> they're just placeholder links until those documents are written).

I'd vote for the first approach.

The CleanUrls page should state:
1) What it's good for (i.e.getting rid of "pmwiki.php?n=" in the URL, so 
things are looking better to human visitors and search engines alike)
2) For each documented technique:
    2a) What's required (Apache and write access to httpd.conf for
        CleanUrlsAlias, etc.)
    2b) An overview of the advantages and disadvantages
        (maybe - once it works, (dis)advantages don't count too much)

IOW the overview page should give the visitor (1) enough information to 
decide whether this is interesting at all, (2) enough information to 
decide which of the various approaches is best.

Just my 2c.

Regards,
Jo