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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]

RewriteCond $1 !^/~
RewriteCond $1 !.*/index$
RewriteRule (.+).rss $1/index.rss

RewriteCond $1 !^/~
RewriteCond $1 !.*/index$
RewriteRule (.+).atom $1/index.atom

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]]