On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Lucas <kilucas(a)gotadsl.co.uk> wrote: Which instructions say that? http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_14_0/phase3/INSTALL says to rename the directory to something else (mediawiki-1.14.0 is the default directory that would be created when you untar the files); the installation guide on MW.org doesn't say anything on the subject. In any event, you should move everything so that MediaWiki is at /var/www/mediawiki (or just /var/www/w; see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#Recommended_how-to_guide_.28… ). You will need to update your Apache alias, $wgScriptPath (in LocalSettings.php), and possibly $wgArticlePath when you do this. You won't have it if you haven't upgraded before; you'll need to either create it (copy AdminSettings.sample to AdminSettings.php and then edit it) or just define $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in LocalSettings.php.

Benjamin Lees wrote: In fact, AdminSettings.php is not needed for latest mediawiki versions. It will try to update with the normal db user (which should then have enough permissions to do so, of course).

On Jul 25, 10:20 pm, kilucas &lt;kevin.lu...(a)concave.co.uk&gt; wrote: This seems to have worked - many thanks. My wiki is now in .../ mediawiki/ and short urls aliasing this to .../wiki/ work with the following exception. The only oddity is that paths to images don't retain my short urls. If an article with path .../wiki/<article name> contains an image <imagename.jpg> then clicking on the image within the article takes me to .../wiki/File:<imagename.jpg> as I'd intuitively expected. But clicking on the image again here takes me to .../mediawki/images/ <imagename.jpg> where "mediawiki" now replaces the alis "wiki". I'm guessing that this is how it's supposed to work because Wikipedia swaps out the alias as well (although it swaps it to "wikipedia" instead). I wondered whether I'd mistakenly left an old reference to "mediawiki" somewhere but the only one I can find (apart from the obvious reference that my images are in a physical directory calkled / mediawiki/images, is in $wgScriptPath which didn't seem very relevant. And, if I changed it to /wiki, then my pages appeared to display without skins - very crudely. So I changed it back. There's no reference to "mediawiki" in my aliases either. So, should I expect short urls to apply to my images now I've simplified my directory naming or do you think my implementation is behaving normally as regards image urls? Many thanks for your help here. This is all in much better shape now! My next step is to see if I can understand how to run Platonides' script for moving my single images folder into hashed structures. Kevin

On Aug 1, 11:03 pm, Platonides &lt;Platoni...(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: The one at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgHashedUploadDirectory. I presume that running the script itself just involves copying the code into a file but I need to contemplate the remaining instructions first. If I have any queries I'll check for past posts and then post any new ones in a separate thread. Thanks