Couldn't you leave the files where they are and modify your apache re-write rules? I don't use apache so I'm not sure on this one, but it sounds like what people have used it for.
Good luck! -Courtney
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of McHale, Nina Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:12 AM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] moving wiki "root"?
Hi, all,
First post--please don't hurt me. :)
I installed MediaWiki a couple of months ago to begin using as an intranet for about 80 people in an academic library environment. At the time, the idea was to only have a portion of the intranet be a wiki. Now, I'm sold, and I want to make the wiki the environment for the whole intranet. Question: how do I move the wiki files from /siterootfolder/wiki/ to just having the wiki files be the site root? Can I just dump them into the site root folder, or would that break stuff, including the existing articles? :)
Part of my motivation for doing this is shortening URLs even more:
http://hostname/wiki/My_Article_Title
http://hostname/My_Article_Title
I feel like if the intranet is contained entirely within the wiki, we don't need the extra /wiki/ in the URL.
Does MediaWiki work okay installed in the site root folder? Oh, and of course, there is already content in the wiki...
Thanks in advance for your help,
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