1.17 was EOL a long time ago. There's no proper way to make an ancient version of a piece of software that was made for a newer version of the software.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]

On 2015-08-26 8:49 PM, James wrote:

Thanks Daniel for your prompt response!

Currently, I am using Mediawiki version 1.17.

I tried to add $wgEnableCanonicalServerLink https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableCanonicalServerLink = true; to LocalSettings.php. When I add <link rel="canonical"> on Main Page, the code will visible.

I tried CanonURL extension, but it requires Mediawiki version 1.20.

Is there proper way to accept rel=canonical on version 1.17 of Mediawiki?

Thanks. James

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Daniel Friesen <daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com mailto:daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote:

On 2015-08-26 7:05 PM, James wrote:
> When I access wiki.old-domain.net <http://wiki.old-domain.net>
or .org, it will redirect me to
> http://wiki.domain.co/Main_Page.
> Now, I want to eliminate "/Main_Page" and make it single URL
> http://wiki.domain.co only.
MediaWiki does not support this.

> The reason behind all of this is due to errors getting when
changing of
> address on Google search console which G wants to make it
wiki.domain.co <http://wiki.domain.co>
> only and not having /Main_Page.
>
> Any advise and help would be much appreciated.
MediaWiki should be setting rel=canonical for the main page, so there
should be no indexing issues with systems that want to strip the
/Main_Page from the url, both will end up indexing/providing
pagerank to
the same url.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)
[http://danielfriesen.name/]