apache rewrite (.htaccess files)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stefan Sperling</b> <<a href="mailto:stsp@stsp.name">stsp@stsp.name</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>today I've started setting up a new wiki at <a href="http://dslinux.org">dslinux.org</a>.<br>It's not in use yet.<br><br>The wiki engine is MoinMoin: <a href="http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/">http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/
</a><br>The syntax of Moin is a bit different from Mediawiki, see<br><a href="http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinVsMediaWiki">http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinVsMediaWiki</a><br><br>The change is needed because we cannot upgrade php on
<a href="http://dslinux.org">dslinux.org</a>,<br>but current versions of mediawiki require a newer version of php.<br>I could not find any good anti-spam solutions for the mediawiki<br>version we're running, so we need something else quickly.
<br><br>Also, I've found a very simple anti-bot account patch for<br>MoinMoin here:<br><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411312">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411312</a><br>I've tested it and it works fine. It's very small and simple,
<br>yet probably better than whatever I could find for Mediawiki.<br><br>Before taking the new wiki live, we need to migrate the content.<br><br>I don't really think that importing the history of the old wiki<br>into the new one is important, do you? This would simplify the move.
<br>I guess we only really care about current docs anyway.<br><br>My current plan is to find or come up with a simple<br>mediawiki->moimoin syntax conversion script, run it on<br>copies of the wiki pages like the ones I have at
<br><a href="http://stsp.spline.de/dslinux/wiki-backup/">http://stsp.spline.de/dslinux/wiki-backup/</a> and remove<br>all the XML in those files.<br><br>Then we can add the pages to the new wiki manually and get rid<br>of a bit of old cruft (and spam!) along the way.
<br>It would be great if you could check the list of pages on<br><a href="http://stsp.spline.de/dslinux/wiki-backup/">http://stsp.spline.de/dslinux/wiki-backup/</a> to see if you find any<br>pages missing. I will convert the pages listed there (at least
<br>those that are still valuable).<br><br>I guess trying to migrate accounts is not worth the hassle,<br>everybody will have to sign up again, sorry.<br><br>Another thing we need a solution for is that MoinMoin runs as<br>
a CGI script, not php, so the URLs to the new wiki will<br>be a bit different. But we cannot afford to break the old links<br>because the wiki has been linked from the forums an awful lot.<br><br>So it would be great if we had some magic in place which simply
<br>makes all links to the old wiki point to the new wiki.<br>For example, the link<br><a href="http://www.dslinux.org/wiki/DSLinux_FAQ">http://www.dslinux.org/wiki/DSLinux_FAQ</a><br>should be redirected to<br><a href="http://www.dslinux.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DSLinux_FAQ">
http://www.dslinux.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DSLinux_FAQ</a><br>All page names will stay the same.<br>Any ideas what the easiest way is to get this done?<br><br>Thanks,<br>--<br>stefan<br><a href="http://stsp.name">http://stsp.name
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