[Discuss] Having trouble browsing a backed-up MediaWiki (PHP) site.

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-09-28 09:32-0700 noel at natnix.com wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> This is an interesting problem!  The problem is that even after URL
> translation, your web server will always break urls at the "?".
>
> I'd recommend against the Apache/mod_rewrite route.  I don't think you
> can make Apache ignore the "?".
>
> You may want to try something based on Python's SimpleHttpServer:
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-SimpleHTTPServer.html.  Start with
> something like this, it may ignore '?' in file names right out of the
> box:

Our posts crossed.  As you know by now, I found an alternative solution
using a wget option that escaped the question marks in file names.  Thanks
for your interest.

Alan
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