For users of the WaWiki software, there's a new post on Davey Shafik's blog today that might interest you - it gives some tips on how to make YaWiki use "nice URLs".

On IRC today, someone wanted their YaWiki? to have nicer urls, like: http://crtx.org/CrtxDB.

I had been wanting this forever, so I went ahead and wrote the simple rules needed. Unfortunately, then the person pointed out that they had more than one area on their Wiki. So I went ahead and whipped this up...

He gives exactly what you'll need to get it working on your system - all of the needed Apache rewrite rules (you won't even have to touch the source code to do it)...