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Cmich 18:13, 7 Mar 2004 (EST)

Wiki Internals

I noticed on the Wikipedia site, each page has a simple URL, whereas on the VOC Wiki we have some sort of active page lookup system (wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page) . The system we are using prevents the pages within the wiki from appearing of search engines like google and yahoo, etc. Is it possible to swich the wiki over to the simpler implementation, or is this limited by our web server provider.

ScottN 19:51, 26 Mar 2004 (EST)

Humm.. Interesting. We're running the same software as Wikipedia (although as slightly older version at this point, see VOCWiki_Talk:About). I may have a look into it at some point when I have some free time. If you want to do some research about it yourself, a couple limitations with our setup to keep in mind :

• We don't have control over the Apache configuration file (this may be necessary to make the "alias" that you see on Wikipedia.
• PHP is implemented as a CGI script rather than Apache module by our ISP.

Chris Michalak 21:24, 26 Mar 2004 (EST)