[pmwiki-users] How come no http://pmwiki.org/Main/HomePage does not work?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:11:41AM +0200, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> How come no http://pmwiki.org/Main/HomePage does not work?

It works now.

> Basically I'm wondering what the reason is that pmwiki.org doesn't use URI 
> redirection all the way?  

I used to have redirection installed when pmwiki.org was running
under a different hosting provider, but when I migrated to the current
one I forgot to re-activate the redirection.  It's fixed now.

As far as using completely clean urls by default (i.e., '/Main/HomePage'
instead of '/wiki/Main/HomePage'), I haven't really felt a need to do
that.  I somewhat like seeing the /wiki in the address bar, and there
are plenty of other sites that demonstrate that it's possible to use
PmWiki without any prefix.

(Beyond that, any links that currently exist on the web are pointing 
to the '/wiki' url, and so to preserve pmwiki.org's current search
engine rankings I'd prefer to leave it that way.  :-)

> I don't think so, and I hope not, but is there some serious reason for why 
> using URI redirection fully is a bad choice? (Security wise for instance?)

It's just the way I started pmwiki.org many years ago, and I
haven't seen a compelling need to change it.

Pm