Last modified: 2011-04-25 09:39:55 UTC
When I go to a page with a red link, it tells me to edit it, and all is good. But I have a notfound page, which is nf.htm. When I click my username, or when I put in the URL manually, it goes straight to nf.htm, and won't let me edit it. Also, is there a way to make is ask "Do you want to make the page? Do you want to search for it in other articles?" or something like that?
Ahm, what are you referring to with nf.htm ? What 'notfound' are you talking about ? Is this related to the MediaWiki-software, or is this something Wikipedia-specific ?
It's the software. In my website, there is a page that is called nf.htm and you arrive there when the page doesn't exist, in another part of the site. I have seen other wikis that if you arrive at a nonexistent page it asks if you either want to make it or search. Mine goes straight to nf.htm.
(In reply to comment #2) > It's the software. Are you sure you are running MediaWiki? The behavior you describe is the default behavior in MW. You would have to do something to get it to point to nf.htm, is that something your provider could have done when setting up MW?
(In reply to comment #2) > It's the software. > > > In my website, there is a page that is called nf.htm and you arrive there when > the page doesn't exist, in another part of the site. I have seen other wikis > that if you arrive at a nonexistent page it asks if you either want to make it > or search. Mine goes straight to nf.htm. How are you redirecting to nf.htm ? Based on the headers in apache main config ? Or .htaccess ? Or some other method ?
Umm...in my global site settings, is says something about your own not found page. I put nf.htm. So whenever I go to a nonexistant page, it takes me there. Yes I'm running mediawiki. And no, my provider didn't set MW up. I want it to ask me if I want to make that page.
(In reply to comment #5) > Umm...in my global site settings, is says something about your own not found > page. I put nf.htm. So whenever I go to a nonexistant page, it takes me > there. > You're probably running a buggy version of IIS that overrides responses with a 404 status code. I think disabling the nf.htm thing might work, but I forget what the usual workaround for this is.
