On 14/03/13 11:11, Alexis Moinet wrote:
I'm sorry but I fail to see how this (from the INSTALL instructions):
Decompress the MediaWiki installation archive either on your server, or on your local machine and upload the directory tree. Rename it from "mediawiki-1.x.x" to something nice, like "wiki", since it'll be in your URL.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Hint: If you plan to use a fancy URL-rewriting scheme to prettify your | | URLs, you should put the files in a *different* directory from the | | virtual path where page names will appear. | | | | See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
is not clear enough about not using 'wiki' in case of URL-rewriting/Short URLs into 'wiki', and about 'wiki' being just an *example* of naming ?
Alexis
It was changed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/47298 to
Decompress the MediaWiki installation archive either on your server, or on your local machine and upload the directory tree. Rename it from "mediawiki-1.x.x" to something nice, like "wiki", since it will be appearing in your URL, ie. /wiki/index.php/Article.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Note: If you plan to use a fancy URL-rewriting scheme to prettify your | | URLs, such as http://www.example.com/wiki/Article, you should put the | | files in a *different* directory from the virtual path where page names | | will appear. It is common in this case to use w as the folder name and | | /wiki/ as the virtual article path where your articles pretend to be. | | | | See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Patches are welcome if that's still considered confusing.