[SAC] Re: [OSGeo] #165: Wiki LDAP integration

[Arnulf Christl]

Martin Spott wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:45:28AM +0100, Martin Spott wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:21:37AM +0100, Martin Spott wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:50:42PM -0000, OSGeo wrote:
>>>>  Just curious why you rewrote to the "/wiki/" prefix - was there a
>>>>  particular quirk you were avoiding?  I'd love to wiki.osgeo.org/Main_Page,
>>>>  avoiding "/wiki/" altogether.
>>> Yes, this was my intention as well, but MediaWiki exposes some really
>>> strange quirks when doing so. This includes random lower/upper case
>>> mangling: For example "skin" had been converted into "Skin" in some
>>> occasions which means the OSGeo layout didn' display.
>> Ok, setting aliases seems to be the method of choice to achieve this
>> without disturbing MediaWiki [...]
> 
> ....  aside from the fact that it disables user logins. I'm working on
> it,
> 
> 	Martin.

Martin,
we just switched  and it works fine for us:
http://www.mapbender.org/GSoC_2008

It would be good to have this soon as I noticed that we are already distributing URLs pointing to the Wiki that will stop to work when you change it again. 

Regards, Arnulf.