Last modified: 2010-03-27 16:34:41 UTC
I have a "http://commons.wikimedia.org" link in my sig. Two complaints so far about getting an error on visiting the link, which turned out to be people going to www.commons....
Making it a general bug.
Really strange noobs. You give them a link and instead of clicking on it to directly display the text they rewrite it adding www. Seriously, I am against adding a www entry in front. People should just learn that all sites do not begin with www all the time.
It could also redirect to www.wikimedia.org @Ashar Voultoiz; People should also learn that not al websites and on ".com". I am in favor to send all www.wikipedia.com and *.wikipedia.org traffic to a page that says; we are an .org and proud of it. And redirect afther 10 seconds to www.wikipedia.org.
http://www.fr.wikipedia.org/ is redirected to http://fr.wikipedia.org/ http://www.commons.wikimedia.org/ is not!
I think that this would be useful, I just typed 'www.' and then realized that I didn't actually want that site and wanted meta so continued it and reached the 'Problem loading page' display. It would increase productivity if this were done.
I know this is an ancient low-pri bug but I'd still love to see it happen.
I noticed this bug recently, and want to add that seems to be a problem with all the projects except Wikipedia. http://www.en.wikisource.org/ , http://www.en.wiktionary.org/ and others at least offer a somewhat informative error page but they should redirect to their project like Wikipedia does (if it is for some reason too difficult to do this by fixing DNS, it could be done in PHP or Javascript of the error page itself). But http://www.commons.wikimedia.org/ and http://www.meta.wikimedia.org/ don't offer even that. Note that http://www.google.com/search?q=%22www.commons.wikimedia.org%22 gives a 100,000 results.
Done. I didn't add *.wikimedia.org due to the high number of 'other' special hosts in that domain. Postrewrite: ------------ <VirtualHost *> ServerName redirector-ws.wikipedia.org ServerAlias *.wikisource.org ServerAlias *.wiktionary.org ServerAlias *.wikiversity.org ServerAlias www.commons.wikimedia.org ServerAlias www.meta.wikimedia.org RewriteEngine On RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.([^\.]+)\.([^\.]+)\.org RewriteRule ^(.+) ${lowercase:%{HTTP_HOST}}$1 [C] RewriteRule ^www\.([^\.]+)\.([^\.]+)\.org(.*)$ http://$1.$2.org$3 [R=301,L] </VirtualHost>
I was too optimistic. Apparently not working. Investigating.
OK, this time it worked. The postrewrite section of our http config apparently is not being used any more, the catch-all rewrites are already included in the general per-project <VirtualHost> containers.
Is bug 16994 fixed, too?
