Last modified: 2014-02-28 20:51:36 UTC
Since we've deprecated the wap.wikipedia.org hostnames (for one thing it's not accurate, we don't actually support WAP as an access protocol!) in favor of *.mobile.wikipedia.org, it might be nice to issue HTTP redirects so people see the new name. Downside: higher latency for people actually using the old URLs. Upside: better visibility for new URLs and better cachingness. Should be a simple matter of tweaking Apache configuration so a separate vhost handles the one and does redirects to the other.
Note: wap is ISO 639-3 language code for Wapishana language, thus should not be used for anything else according to the current system.
Right, that's why wap.wikipedia.org specifically is not set -- it needs to be reserved for the language code. But the *.wap.wikipedia.org subdomains do not conflict, and already exist, hence the need to redirect them.
This has been completed. I had to enable the mod-rewrite on the server in question, and made a new config file for the wap virtual host.
Hmmm, I'm not sure is it working fine... For example, when I'm choosing pl.wap.wikipedia.org, I'm redirecting into mobile.wikipedia.org and when I try find article I see results from en.wiki. When pl.wap.wikipedia.org not redirected, I could immediately get results from pl.wiki. IMHO When I choose pl.wap.wikipedia.org Apache configuration should redirect me into pl.mobile.wikipedia.org.
Leinad, You are indeed correct! Sorry about that, I was missing the coditional statement. Now it should be functioning properly. Thanks for noticing the mistake!
