Lukas Haase wrote:

Hi,

I have installed MediaWiki on the root of the webspace on http://www.example.com.

Now, when I visit http://www.example.com I am automatically redirected to http://www.example.com/index.php/Main_Page

Can I configure MediaWiki such that the main page stays at just http://www.example.com ??

Thank you, Luke

No. Each page needs to have a name.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 13:43, Lukas Haase lukashaase@gmx.at wrote:

Hi,

I have installed MediaWiki on the root of the webspace on http://www.example.com.

Now, when I visit http://www.example.com I am automatically redirected to http://www.example.com/index.php/Main_Page

Can I configure MediaWiki such that the main page stays at just http://www.example.com ??

Assuming that Apache is your web server, you can use mod_rewrite or the ProxyPass directive to map http://www.example.com to http://www.example.com/index.php/Main_Page

ProxyPass will be easiest to configure and should just require something like:

ProxyPass / http://www.example.com/index.php/Main_Page

Docs live at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass

Note: I've not tested and it's 2am here. You've been warned. :)

Cheers! --zak

Hi,

Am 28.05.2010 08:33, schrieb Clayton:

On 05/27/2010 11:13 PM, Platonides wrote:

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Lukas Haase wrote: [...]

No. Each page needs to have a name.

:-( The first thing MediaWiki does not support :-(

The closest you can get is http://www.example.com/Main_Page if you set up short URLs (which removes the index.php part).

See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL

No, this does not help. I use MediaWiki for my homepage and I want to use the same URL as OpenID. So I added the following to the head of my template:

<link rel="openid.server" href="https://secure.example.com/openid" /> <link rel="openid.delegate" href="https://secure.example.com/openid" />

Actually it works, I can sign on with www.example.com (e.g. to Wiki Commons) but my (OpenID)user gets converted to www.example.com/index.php/Main_Page

I hope you understand my concern.

Regards, Luke

Hi,

Am 28.05.2010 21:13, schrieb OQ:

[...] Don't use the example.com/Page_title URL scheme. It isn't supported by developers and WILL break in ways you can't foresee (and if it doesn't, the developers might break it in a future version just to spite you). Some examples can be found at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_in_site_root_directory#Reasons_why...

While it's still possible to do this, it's not recommended.

Thank you, I followed the instructions and modified my path: I moved mediawiki to /w, added the Alias directive and this is now my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^$ /wiki/Main_Page

# Make sure old URLs work for some time... RewriteRule ^index.php/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/wiki/$1 [R,L]

Actually this solves not my problem described above: http://www.example.com is redirected to http://www.example.com/wiki/Main_Page :-( :-(

So I still can't use www.example.com as OpenID :(

Regards, Luke

Hi,

Am 28.05.2010 21:54, schrieb OQ:

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Lukas Haaselukashaase@gmx.at wrote:

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RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^$ /wiki/Main_Page

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Actually this solves not my problem described above: http://www.example.com is redirected to http://www.example.com/wiki/Main_Page :-( :-(

Yes, because your rewrite rule says to do that.

No, it does not. This rule would redirect:

RewriteRule ^$ http://www.example.com/wiki/Main_Page [R]

My rewrite rule just maps the address "/" internally to the main page. The user should NOT be redirected. This is obviously done by MediaWiki.

In short I just want: * Access my wiki through http://www.example.com * Use www.example.com as OpenID, i.e. it should not be redirected externally.

Regards, Luke

Am 28.05.2010 22:03, schrieb OQ:

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Lukas Haaselukashaase@gmx.at wrote:

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Hi,

My rewrite rule just maps the address "/" internally to the main page. The user should NOT be redirected. This is obviously done by MediaWiki.

It can't be both. Either A) You moved mediawiki to /w/ in which accessing / shouldn't ever reach mediawiki

This is obviously done by MediaWiki (I guess with header("Location ...")

B) Or you didn't move mediawiki to /w/ even though you say you did.

I did:

$ ls -la insgesamt 20 drwxr-xr-x 3 luke www-data 4096 28. Mai 23:44 . drwxr-xr-x 18 luke www-data 4096 27. Mai 23:42 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 luke www-data 335 28. Mai 23:44 .htaccess drwxr-xr-x 16 luke www-data 4096 28. Mai 23:32 w $ cat .htaccess RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^$ /wiki/Main_Page

And in the webserver config:

Alias /wiki /srv/www/w/index.php

Ok, once more: My rewrite-rule in the .htaccess *internally* hides "/wiki/Main_Page" behind "/". No HTTP redirect is done!

Proof:

RedirectRule ^$ /test.html

$ echo hello, world > test.html

Accessing this yields:

hello, world

and the client browser states http://www.example.com and *NOT* http://www.example.com/test.html. So my redirect does NOT do ANY HTTP redirects!

But MediaWiki seems to do so afterwards ...

Again: I *do* want my Wiki be accessible at http://www.example.com (in some way) but it should not (HTTP) redirect to something else (at least for the start page).

Regards, Luke