[pmwiki-users] Wikiwords

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Jan 22 09:43:48 CST 2007


On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:02:27AM -0000, marc wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud said...
> > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:25:13PM +0100, kirpi at kirpi.it wrote:
> > > Not having wikiwords enabled/used any more by default recalls, to my
> > > unexperienced mind, a parallel theme: upper and lower cases in urls.
> > > 
> > > Do we have to expect Group.PageName to became group/pagename by default soon?
> > 
> > Not soon.  I am indeed planning for this -- see
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/RoadMap -- but there
> > are a _lot_ of things like this that impact how pages
> > are being stored and indexed, and we have to have a way
> > to cleanly migrate existing sites/pages to the new
> > format, whatever it ends up being.
> 
> Currently, I use the following
> 
>     RewriteRule ^([^/a-z].*) pmwiki/index.php?n=$1  [QSA,L]
> 
> as the final rule in .htaccess[1] in the web root. This is handy, 
> because I can then access non-PmWiki folders by giving them a lower case 
> first character. (I'm not suggesting that this is the best way to do it, 
> but it works, which is always a good thing.)
> 
> Do you have something in mind for cases like this? (I'd rather prepare 
> for it now, as I go, if possible.)

I don't have anything in mind for this situation yet.  I'm
sure we'll come up with something; I just don't yet know what
it will be.  :-)

Of course, sites will always have the option to be able
to set a policy that says that pagenames always start with an
uppercase letter.

Pm




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