docs root or public_html as the case may be for others.
/wiki with a /wiki alias?
/a or /b or whatever and rewrite as /wiki or /public or whatever you want to rewrite it
too.
Updates are easier /w with your new install in /wnew. Update extensions, copy over images
directory, and any other files including localsettings. Rename /w to /wold and /wnew to
/w. Now run update.php. Test wiki.
White screen, turn on error reporting. Set at top of localsettings. Fatal in
....w/extensions/.... On line ... Comment out extension. Try to access wiki again.
Another white screen, repeat. Comment out the next extension in localsettings etc.
White screens can be avoided if you make sure all extensions are up to date to work with
the mw version you are updating too. Sometimes there might not be an exact it works with
version but the extensions talk page is a great place to look for a fix... Mod this file
line xxx to this or comment out these lines.
Tom
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On Jun 2, 2014, at 9:18 PM, Rob Lingelbach
<rob(a)colorist.org> wrote:
On Jun 2, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Tom Hutchison
<tom(a)hutch4.us> wrote:
Did you account for /images or /skins and a whole lot of other things in your .htaccess
file? Always a bad idea to put the install in the root.
You mean e.g. apache’s DocumentRoot or ServerRoot? I’ve been in the habit of having
mediawiki files go into a subdirectory based on (for example)
DocumentRoot/wiki/mediawiki-1.22.7. and then Alias it as DocumentRoot/wiki .
This is only the start of what you need to think
of. Robots.txt, google verification file, /extensions which store files such as processed
widgets. Search engines will have their way with your wiki. Indexing edit pages and
revision pages unless you create special rules not just Disallow /w. It will also make it
harder to upgrade which is a mute discussion at this point. Not saying root install
isn't possible. Just a whole lot of things to consider. To start: Check the path
for /images and a file. If your rewrite doesn't ignore the /images directory you'd
404 the call to it in a page. Simple test, call the hard url to an image.
/images/1/a/example.png. If it takes you to the wiki and says create a page your rewrite
is not excluding the directory and seeing it as a page.
thank you for the advice, I’ll look at that this evening.
--
Rob Lingelbach
http://rob.colorist.org
http://colorist.org rob(a)colorist.org
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