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"I have learned to ignore .bz2 files" Try WinRAR - it'll handle bzip fine. 7Zip may also - but I haven't run Windoof for years, so I'm guessing.

"under instructions for mod_rewrite it says no file extension. For Windoza users it might be confusing, try saying no filename instead." Nope they mean what they say. If you have mod_rewrite enabled without setting a page "extension" then "about.php" will show as "about". If you set an "extension" in config.php as ".html" the previous example will show as "about.html".

I suspect the confusion comes from the default Windoof settings that hides file extensions. Windoof uses file extensions eg. create a file with Notepad and save it as "example". It is actually "example.txt" - but unless you enable "show file extension" in settings you'll see it as "example".

To clarify - "filename.extension". The early versions of Windoof had an 8.3 rule, the filename had to be 8 characters or less, and the extension had to be 3 characters or less. It's no longer necessary post-NT, though Microsoft default uses .htm instead of .html for HTML file extensions.

Nice article.