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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

anatoly techtonik wrote:
> 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

I don't think this will technically work with MoinMoin, since it
needs the URL prefix to distinguish between the wiki instances
in a farm installation.

We could have a redirect from anything not a wiki instance
prefix to wiki.python.org/moin/\1, but the wiki pages themselves
would still need to use the /moin/ prefix.

BTW: What's so bad about the prefix advertising the use of
MoinMoin for the Python.org wiki ?

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