Hi,
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 15:35, Phill Whiteside PhillW@thesii.org wrote:
Is there a link as to how to create said Main_Page?
Yeah, you can tell I'm a n00b to this :)
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 16:30, Phill Whiteside PhillW@thesii.org wrote:
yeah, http://wiki.thesii.org is a subdomain pointed to via the DNS and set up in apache as to the where the root area is.
as per
[...]
/var/www/html/thesii.org/wiki
holds the files....
[...]
so, it seems that directory structure is correct.
I'm not sure how this is non standard, it is a normal way to set up something?
It's fine as is but the standard way is the have mediawiki live in subdir of the docroot like /w/ and then some other path (like /wiki/) is where the pretty (aka short) URLs live.
The subdomain deffinately exists!
Yes, it exists.
As to what .htaccess would be complaining at, I'm at a loss. DNS has an entry for wiki.thesii.org (else we would get the header site), apache tells it where it is installed and the programme files are all in the correct place?
Something is redirecting / and /index.php and other paths to /index.php/Main_Page. That doesn't happen out of the box and you should figure out what it is and disable it. First get MediaWiki working at all and then worry about Short URLs. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL when you're ready for it.
-Jeremy