[Mediawiki-l] Rewrite rules and .htaccess

Perhaps this isn't the place to ask this, but....

I'm having trouble getting the rewrite rules to work properly. I can access my site with:

http://my.url.here/index.php/Article_name

Everything works fine with the URL like this, but I want to eliminate the "index.php" part of the URL.

When I change my LocalSettings.php and .htaccess (following the user guide's directions on rewrite rules) the URL rewrite happens. In other words, my browser tries to get "http://my.url.here/Main_page".

BUT, this results in a "Not found" error (404).

Here's my .htaccess file: ----------------------------------------------------- # Allow wiki articles to start with a period <Files .*> Order Deny,Allow Allow From All </Files>

# Allow rewriting URLs RewriteEngine on

# Don't rewrite requests for files in MediaWiki subdirectories, # MediaWiki PHP files, HTTP error documents, favicon.ico, or robots.txt RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(stylesheets|images)/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(redirect|texvc|index).php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/error/(40(1|3|4)|500).html RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/favicon.ico RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots.txt

# Rewrite http://wiki.domain.tld/article properly, this is the main rule RewriteRule ^/(.*) /index.php/$1 [L]

-----------------------------------------------------

And here's my LocalSettings.php file:

<?php

# This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki installer. # If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you need to # recreate them later.

$IP = "/home/my_name/public_html/wikisite"; ini_set( "include_path", "$IP/includes:$IP/languages:" . ini_get("include_path") ); include_once( "DefaultSettings.php" );

if( $wgCommandLineMode ) { die( "Can't use command-line utils with in-place install yet, sorry." ); } else { ## Compress output if the browser supports it if( !ini_get( 'zlib.output_compression' ) ) ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' ); }

$wgSitename = "wikisite";

$wgScriptPath = ""; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath"; $wgRedirectScript = "/redirect.php";

## If using PHP as a CGI module, use the ugly URLs $wgArticlePath = "/$1"; # $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1";

$wgStyleSheetPath = "/stylesheets"; $wgStyleSheetDirectory = "$IP/stylesheets";

$wgUploadPath = "/images"; $wgUploadDirectory = "$IP/images"; $wgLogo = "$wgUploadPath/wiki.png"; $wgStockPath = $wgUploadPath;

$wgEmergencyContact = "wwwadmin@wikisite.tld"; $wgPasswordSender = "wwwadmin@wikisite.tld";

$wgDBserver = "localhost"; $wgDBname = "database"; $wgDBuser = "user"; $wgDBpassword = "password";

## To allow SQL queries through the wiki's Special:Askaql page, ## uncomment the next lines. THIS IS VERY INSECURE. If you want ## to allow semipublic read-only SQL access for your sysops, ## you should define a MySQL user with limited privileges. ## See MySQL docs: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/GRANT.html # # $wgAllowSysopQueries = true; # $wgDBsqluser = "sqluser"; # $wgDBsqlpassword = "sqlpass";

$wgDBmysql4 = $wgEnablePersistentLC = true;

## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory ## is writable, then uncomment this: # $wgDisableUploads = false; $wgUseImageResize = true; # $wgUseImageMagick = true; # $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

## If you have the appropriate support software installed ## you can enable inline LaTeX equations: # $wgUseTeX = true; $wgMathPath = "{$wgUploadPath}/math"; $wgMathDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math"; $wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp";

$wgLocalInterwiki = $wgSitename;

$wgLanguageCode = "en"; $wgInputEncoding = $wgOutputEncoding = "UTF-8";

?> -------------------------------------------------------------------

Any ideas?

Bruce