We typically recommend against the use of /Foo ($wgActionPath = "/$1") style pretty urls. But people still use them. We might as well keep a tracking bug open with the bugs that can pop up when you make use of root urls.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T34620 Support for root /Foo style pretty urls | |||
| Resolved | None | T34486 WebRequest::getPathInfo() broken in img_auth.php on DreamHost | |||
| Open | None | T34621 Root /Foo style article paths and action paths conflict | |||
| Open | None | T40048 Root article paths allow creating local-like links to external sites (bypass nofollow, attacks Special:Random) | |||
| Open | BUG REPORT | None | T346735 Reply tool doesn't show when the wiki not run on subFolder like /wiki/ | ||
| Open | None | T141444 Incorrect treatment of titles starting with a slash when URLs are ultra-short |
With ultra-short URL, the webmaster has to make sure that the search engines, Let's Encrypt, etc. receive files, rather than wiki pages, when requesting robots.txt, .sitemap, etc. That has to be done by the frontend web server.