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@@ -78,3 +78,13 @@ I'm getting closer. Now with usedirs => 1 and raw html pages, ikiwiki transforms
 Can ikiwiki be instructed map foo/index.html to page foo instead that foo/index?
 
 -Mikko
+
+> If you don't already have a foo.html in your source, why not just rename foo/index.html to foo.html? With usedirs, it will then map to foo/index.html. Before, you had 'foo/' and 'foo/index.html' as working URLS, and they will work after too. 
+> 
+> If you did have a foo.html and a foo/index.html, hmm, that's a tricky one. -- [[Jon]]
+
+> We may be going round in circles - that's what indexpages => 1 does :-)
+> See the table I constructed above, which explains the mapping from input
+> files to abstract page names, and then the mapping from abstract page
+> names to output files. (I personally think that moving your source pages
+> around like Jon suggested is a better solution, though. --[[smcv]]