[pmwiki-users] New documuntation for Clean URIs (Was: stylesheet not loading..

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, H. Fox wrote:

I'm just reposting this under a prope subject.

> On 1/23/06, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
> <christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >
> > > > p.s. - The Cookbook/CleanUrls page gets my vote for the most confusing
> > > > page on the pmwiki.org site. It could really use some editing/rewriting
> > > > from someone who truly understands the intricacies of rewriting.
> > >
> > > I agree -- rewriting that page has been on my to-do list for some time.
> > > Part of the issue is that there are so many different ways to accomplish
> > > it, and many people have been adding/revising it with their own "better"
> > > versions and opinions of how they think it ought to be done.
> >
> > I also agree... I looked at recently and just made me more confused - and
> > I'm already using clean URIs...
> >
> > Maybe it'd help to have Cookbook/CleanUrls as a gathering page which
> > explains the problems in general, and then refer to
> >
> >         Cookbook/CleanUrls1
> >         Cookbook/CleanUrls2
> >         Cookbook/CleanUrls3
> >
> > for the different approaches? As it is, the page is rather big...
> 
> The CleanUrls page really does need to be rewritten from scratch. 
> That big hairball of a page could be kept as a reference of last
> resort.
> 
> There may need to be various approaches "just in case", but there must
> be One Best Approach that should be presented first.  It should be one
> that's likely to work in most cases.
> 
> How's this for a start?
> 
>    http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/NewCleanUrlsRecipe

/Christian

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