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+Now that ikiwiki supports using page/index.html rather than page.html, how about some mechanism to automatically generate a .htaccess file with "Redirect permanent" lines for each such page?
+
+> I was thinking of using an apache RewriteRule for this, haven't written
+> one yet though. --[[Joey]]
+
+> Here's a RewriteRule that I'm using for <http://kitenet.net/>, which
+> has an wiki at the top level that's using index.htmls, and some
+> other stuff that shouldn't be rewritten.
+
+ RewriteCond $1 !^/~
+ RewriteCond $1 !^/doc/
+ RewriteCond $1 !^/ajaxterm
+ RewriteCond $1 !^/cgi-bin/
+ RewriteCond $1 !.*/index$
+ RewriteRule (.+).html $1/ [R]
+
+
+>> Nice solution. I think this would work for a newly-converted wiki as well,
+>> using a condition to limit rewrites to that wiki's directory, and the
+>> rewrite rule you propose. Thus, autogenerating seems unnecessary; we
+>> should just have a documented, known-working RewriteCond and RewriteRule
+>> for wikis that want to turn on the `usedirs` option. --[[JoshTriplett]]
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-Now that ikiwiki supports using page/index.html rather than page.html, how about some mechanism to automatically generate a .htaccess file with "Redirect permanent" lines for each such page? \ No newline at end of file