What you are trying to do isnt feasible. Just use re-write so you dont break incoming links, and use the new format everywhere else. It is a fairly common tactic that websites use
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Castor Troy <[email protected]> wrote: > If I use re-write rules, I will be able to forward /fun/topic.asp to /Topic. > But when I use [[Topic]] in new MediaWiki pages, it will be /Topic and not be > /fun/topic.asp. > I can't achieve URL consistency. > > What I want is a custom url for every page. If I use [[Topic]] it should > still point to /fun/topic.asp. > > > Thanks, > Castor > > > > ________________________________ > From: Yury Katkov <[email protected]> > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > <[email protected]> > Cc: Castor Troy <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 4:32 PM > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Conversion of website to Mediawiki > > > Right, that seems like a good solution. Google htaccess rewrite rules or > something similar for your webserver if you don't use Apache. > ----- > Yury Katkov > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:57 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would just use your web servers re-write rules >> >> >>On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Castor Troy wrote: >> >>> I would like to convert my existing website of 6000+ pages to Mediawiki. I >>> am willing to add content to a fresh installation of Mediawiki manually, >>> but I want to retain the old urls. I understand that Mediawiki uses its own >>> style of URLs. Is it possible that I can set a per-page url for every >>> mediawiki page? >>> >>> Eg: www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp >>> When I create a new page mediawiki creates www.mysite.com/Topic, but I >>> want to set the url to (www.mysite.com/fun/topic.asp) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> [email protected] <javascript:;> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>MediaWiki-l mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
