Moved www.orvirt.org/wiki to wiki.ovrit.org

Robert Middleswarth robert at middleswarth.net
Tue Jul 17 21:13:09 UTC 2012


On 07/17/2012 11:52 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/16/2012 09:07 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
>> On 07/15/2012 11:10 PM, Eyal Edri wrote:
>>> Just a small question, any reason we kept the /wiki folder when
>>> redirecting from wiki.ovirt.org?
>>
>> MediaWiki is designed to be at /wiki regardless of the sub-domain.
>> I've heard this asserted over the years, and my research the other
>> showed it is still the case. It's not impossible to put the wiki at
>> the root, but there are parts of MediaWiki that expect it at /wiki so
>> it would introduce unknown possible troubles.
>>
>> At the least, we aren't any worse than e.g. wikipedia.com/wiki - it's
>> what people see in other MediaWiki sites.
>
> Really? That's surprising - I thought it was a configuration parameter 
> when installing the wiki. In MeeGo we used to have 
> http://wiki.meego.com/Metrics (for example) with no issues I can 
> remember.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
It didn't look that closely.  I was working on a live system we don't 
have a staging system so I didn't what to have the site down to long 
well moving things.  My biggest concern was breakage so leaving the 
/wiki in was the safer option.

Thanks
Robert




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