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+[[!meta date="2007-04-29 22:48:35 +0000"]]
+

 As of version 2.0, ikiwiki will switch to enabling the 'usedirs' setting by
 default. This *will* break all URLs to wikis that did not have 'usedirs'
 turned on before. You can either follow this procedure to convert your wiki
 As of version 2.0, ikiwiki will switch to enabling the 'usedirs' setting by
 default. This *will* break all URLs to wikis that did not have 'usedirs'
 turned on before. You can either follow this procedure to convert your wiki


@@ -8,12 +10,21 @@ to usedirs, or edit your setup file and turn usedirs back off.
   or manually.
 * Since usedirs is enabled, ikiwiki will have created a bunch of new
   html files. Where before ikiwiki generated a `dest/foo.html`, now it will
   or manually.
 * Since usedirs is enabled, ikiwiki will have created a bunch of new
   html files. Where before ikiwiki generated a `dest/foo.html`, now it will

-  generate `dest/foo/index.html`. But, the old html files will still be
-  present too. Remove them:
-       find dest -name \*.html -not -name index.html -exec rm {} \;
+  generate `dest/foo/index.html`. The old html files will be removed.

 * If you have a blog that is aggregated on a Planet or similar, all the
   items in the RSS or atom feed will seem like new posts, since their URLs
   have changed. See [[howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]] for a workaround.
 * Now all the URLs to pages in your wiki have changed. See
   [[redirections_for_usedirs]] for instructions on setting up redirections
   to keep the old URLs working.
 * If you have a blog that is aggregated on a Planet or similar, all the
   items in the RSS or atom feed will seem like new posts, since their URLs
   have changed. See [[howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]] for a workaround.
 * Now all the URLs to pages in your wiki have changed. See
   [[redirections_for_usedirs]] for instructions on setting up redirections
   to keep the old URLs working.

+
+Why usedirs?
+------------
+There are several advantages to `usedirs`, including simpler URLs, URLs that
+aren't dependent on the underlying implementation (`.html`), and being able to
+use URLs as tags as described in the [rel-tag
+microformat](http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag).
+
+The main disadvantage is that it is harder to browse using `file://` URIs,
+since `file:///dir/` doesn't automatically translate to `dir/index.html`. This
+is something one could fix in the browser though.