[pydotorg-www] Removing /moin/ suffix from wiki.python.org (Was: Internal Server Error while reverting spam)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Radomir Dopieralski <sheep at sheep.art.pl>wrote:
>
>  On Dec 2, 2011 11:07 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> >
> > Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
> > > On Dec 2, 2011 10:12 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Paul Boddie wrote:
> > >>> On Friday 02 December 2011 03:00:29 skip at pobox.com wrote:
> > >>>>     anatoly> And it could be a little easier to type
> > >>>> wiki.python.org/MelbournePUG if mysterious somebody
> > >>>>     anatoly> could adjust web-server configuration accordingly.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> There's another layer in the URL which distinguishes the Python and
> > >>>> Jython wikis.  At least there used to be.  Now I see the selector
> page
> > >>>> briefly, then it redirects me to the last page I was viewing on the
> > >>>> Python wiki.
> > >>>
> > >>> Yes, I think there was a discussion about this: in principle, it
> makes
> > >>> sense to eliminate the "/moin" part, and I guess that this was
> changed.
> > >>> I must admit that I haven't been following this list for some time,
> so I'm
> > >>> sorry if I'm not up-to-date with what people have been doing.
> > >>
> > >> The /moin part is still there and AFAIK is needed, since there are
> > >> several instances of moin running on the wiki.python.org domain:
> > >>
> > >>  * Python wiki
> > >>  * Jython  wiki
> > >>  * PSF wiki
> > >>
> > >> and perhaps more.
> > >
> > > That's not a problem, those urls can be made to work just fine as
> > > exceptions. I can write apropriate rules if there is a decission to
> make
> > > the change.
> >
> > Could you elaborate a bit ? What are those "exceptions" ?
>
> It's not a technical term, I meant it literally. Basically you can
> configure the web server so that the urls of those other wikis lead to the
> respective applications, while all other urls lead to the default python
> wiki. I think it doesn't even require rewrite rules, as scriptalias
> directives are evaluated in order of occurence. We would of course still
> have a redirect from the old /moin url.
>

If there are no objections, I would say - Radomir, go for it. =)
To summarize what do we want to do and how it will behave after the
migration:

 * wiki.python.org/PageName - is a new shorter way of accessing Python
knowledge base
 * wiki.jython.org/PageName - is a new shorter way to access Jython pages
 * wiki.python.org/moin/(.*)$ - will be a permanent redirect to
wiki.python.org/\1 to save external links from breaking
 * wiki.python.org/jython/(.*)$ - the same to  wiki.jython.org/\1
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