# Short url for wiki pages(dunno if [PT,L] is required instead) RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wiki/index.php [L] # Redirect / to Main Page(dunno if [PT,L] is required instead) RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]

OK, this is my first attempt to use rewrite rules. I've done the best I can to follow the instructions at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Manual:Short_URL/Apache<http://www.media…he>. I've created an .htaccess file and put it at root at http://www.vanslyck.us as follows: ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Manual:Short_URL/Apache<http://www.media… # Follow symbolic links(dunno if this is needed or not) Options +FollowSymLinks # Enable the rewrite engine RewriteEngine On # Short url for wiki pages(dunno if [PT,L] is required instead) RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wiki/index.**php [L] # Redirect / to Main Page(dunno if [PT,L] is required instead) RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L] then I added the following lines to the end of LocalSettings.php: # Enable Short URLs # http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Manual:Short_URL<http://www.mediawiki.or… $wgUsePathInfo = true; # added this after getting the redirect loop error. $wgScriptPath = "/wiki"; $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; Can anyone see something obviouis that I know how to recognize? ______________________________**_________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.**org &lt;MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l<https://lists…

On 01/12/2013 08:03 PM, Steve VanSlyck wrote: %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} is wrong there. Try replacing those lines with this: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/?wiki/(.*)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^/*$ /wiki/Main_Page [L,QSA] HTH, Mark.

That's working great - thanks Mark! Can this be adjusted so that calls to http:mysite.com redirect to http://_www_.mysite.com?

On 01/12/2013 08:03 PM, Steve VanSlyck wrote: %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} is wrong there. Try replacing those lines with this: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/?wiki/(.*)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^/*$ /wiki/Main_Page [L,QSA] HTH, Mark.

RewriteRule ^/?wiki/(.*)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

It turns out that when rewrite rules are placed directly into a <VirtualHost> block %{REQUEST_FILENAME} is empty. Which leads to bugs in the rewrite rules. So it was replaced with %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} which ends up with pretty much the same value but is never blank.