Wiki URLs

[NeoPhile]

Is it possible to make URLs like http://wiki.wesnoth.org/ReferenceWML work the way you'd expect them to?

[VS]

It's http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/ReferenceWML ... domain is www, not wiki, and you must add a directory wiki before the page title.

[irrevenant]

Yeh, I believe Neophile was requesting if the URL format could be changed.

We have a units.wesnoth.org, so it theoretically should be possible...

[NeoPhile]

Yes, irrevenant is correct. The URL http://wiki.wesnoth.org does actually work, so it makes sense to take it to it's natural conclusion. It also makes auto-complete easier when typing in a URL, because www tends to be dominated by forum posts.

[Jetrel]

The internet would make a lot more sense with regards to its actual structure if URLs came out like:

http://org.wesnoth/www/


So far as I can tell, that's how they're really structured, hierarchically - I believe /www/ is often a folder on the webserver, and if it isn't, it'd be aliased by the software to wherever the index folder actually is.

I remember Tim Berners-Lee muttering about this as one of his regrets.

[NeoPhile]

The internet would make a lot more sense with regards to its actual structure if URLs came out like:

http://org.wesnoth/www/


So far as I can tell, that's how they're really structured, hierarchically - I believe /www/ is often a folder on the webserver, and if it isn't, it'd be aliased by the software to wherever the index folder actually is.

I remember Tim Berners-Lee muttering about this as one of his regrets.

Yep, that would make more sense. Though it would still be org.wesnoth.www, not /www. Y'know, org.wesnoth.irc shouldn't point to a directory, and neither should www. It's just because www is used for serving files that it's often linked to a directory of the same name.

[ettin]

Is it possible to make URLs like http://wiki.wesnoth.org/ReferenceWML work the way you'd expect them to?

I have set up a redirection from wiki.w.o to www.w.o/wiki. I'm not so sure about moving everything to wiki.w.o, but I'll probably give it a try the next time we upgrade the wiki engine.

[NeoPhile]

I have set up a redirection from wiki.w.o to www.w.o/wiki. I'm not so sure about moving everything to wiki.w.o, but I'll probably give it a try the next time we upgrade the wiki engine.

Thank you!

[Jetrel]

Yep, that would make more sense. Though it would still be org.wesnoth.www, not /www. Y'know, org.wesnoth.irc shouldn't point to a directory, and neither should www. It's just because www is used for serving files that it's often linked to a directory of the same name.

It's a question between:

http://org.wesnoth/

or

org.wesnoth.www

In terms of uniquely identifying the service type being used, across multiple applications. I'd personally prefer the former, perhaps with a single character instead of a ://

[NeoPhile]

It's a question between:

http://org.wesnoth/

or

org.wesnoth.www

In terms of uniquely identifying the service type being used, across multiple applications. I'd personally prefer the former, perhaps with a single character instead of a ://

It's a nice idea. The problem is when you have multiple servers of the same type. Take wesnoth, for example, where www, forum and wiki all use http://. Heck, I've seen some places where they have www1 to www4.