Fix it! Copy the content to a w directory and change 1 line in localsettings.php. Then use a .htaccess to rewrite urls, its very easy.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url

Frisoni

On 11/6/06, Patricia Barden webmaster@prwatch.org wrote:

Hello all:

I was interested in this exchange since I've never really been absolutely sure how to do this:

...

But in the interest of short URLs, I serve my MediaWiki directly from site / without any /wiki/ or /w/ directories. So above meathod would not work on my installation.

Any ideas how I can exclude robots from crawling all my wiki's edit, history, talk, etc, pages *without* excluding its article pages?

Excluding index.php using robots.txt should work if an article link on your page is http://mysite.tld/My_Page.

So, what do you do if the wiki is in the root directory and not a subdir and you're using ugly URLs?

Thanks,

~Tricia webmaster@prwatch.org

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