Find a solution to set mwWikiPath=/ (root, no /wiki/) - avoid double slash in URLs

[benoit74]

By default, mwWikiPath is /wiki/. On some wikis like appropedia, this wiki path is / (i.e. articles are served from the root). It is impossible to set mwWikiPath as / properly in 1.14.1

If we set mwWikiPath as /, then all computed URLs ends with a //, even if we remove any trailing slash in mwUrl. On some implementations, the // is automatically redirected and everything is more or else ok. But this is still not 100% correct.

The problem appears when we try to customize the Main article. Once Main Article is customized, mwoffliner is failing because of following error:

customMainPage doesn't return 200 status code for url https://www.appropedia.org//Welcome_to_Appropedia

See https://farm.openzim.org/pipeline/6bf63a96-91c2-4ea7-8cda-94021f96972a

Underlying cause is that mwoffliner does not support the 302 response sent at this URL. But root cause is that we should have a proper semantic / cleanup of input parameters which avoids to have double slash in all URLs but still allow to pass mwWikiPath as / (passing this parameter as empty string does not work because then Node consider the parameter is not set and use the default value for this parameter).

[Sophivorus]

Hi, sorry for the delay! I could modify our .htaccess so that https://www.appropedia.org//Welcome_to_Appropedia returns a 200 when it gets rewritten to https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia. However, I see you just sent a pull request that may solve the "root cause" of handling wikis with just / as their path, so there might be no need for it, but let me know if I can help in any way. Thanks again, cheers!

[benoit74]

Yes, I want to solve the root cause because Appropedia wiki is not the only one in this situation, and it is a shame to be blocked by such a "simple" bug.