Patricia Barden wrote:
Hello all:
I have a question about some basic configuration settings in LocalSettings.php that I'm hoping someone can help me with.
I have an established wiki that was originally set up using MediaWiki 1.4.x (I think). I just upgraded to 1.15.x.
Is there any downside to having the URL set up as http://www.mywiki.com/index.php versus the recommended way; i.e., http://www.mywiki.com/wiki/index.php?
Is there any way to switch over to the recommended way without changing the URL that is shown to the public and search engines? Perhaps, some way to rewrite the URL in the background?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Patricia
Hello Patricia
No, there's no downside. http://www.mywiki.com/index.php is a stable uri scheme. http://www.mywiki.com/wiki/index.php is not "recommended" in any particular way (you can use that equally well if you wish, though).
The problem with http://www.mywiki.com/index.php?title=MyWiki is that people find those titles ugly. There are two common ways to prettify them: *http://www.mywiki.com/index.php/ArticleTitle (automatic with path info support) *http://www.mywiki.com/wiki/ArticleTitle (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL for instructions)
Note that having /wiki/ArticleTitle does *not* involve moving index.php to a folder called wiki. index.php must be at a different path. /wiki/ would be a virtual folder and use web server magic to pass it to php.
Some people want to have the articles at http://www.mywiki.com/ArticleTitle That *does* give problems. Having index.php at the root doesn't. Since it's an established path, I wouldn't move the wiki root.