Eureka!!! It's what I need, thanks very much. Giovanni _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

I have been able to get my wiki up and configured quite easily, although modifying the navigation box took some figuring out. However, the one last thing I want to do is to figure out how to modify the URLs using Apache rewrite rules. I don't have access to httpd.conf on my hosted site, just .htaccess files. But when I tried the hint in <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_rules> nothing happened. Moreover, I want to also change the base URL, as I use URL forwarding on my site. Any help would be appreciated! Please see below for more details.

I really hope I can get this working, as it is the only thing holding up making my site go live! Thanks again to anyone who can clear up the confusion!

P. Kerim friedman wrote: That setup was used when MusicWiki was in a different server (under /wiki directory). My actuall configuration follows (Wiki at http://www.music-wiki.org for .htaccess or httpd.conf): RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php?tile=Main_Page [L] # Don't rewrite requests for files in MediaWiki subdirectories, # MediaWiki PHP files, HTTP error documents, favicon.ico, or robots.txt RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/stylesheets/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(redirect|texvc|index).php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/error/(40(1|3|4)|500).html RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/favicon.ico RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots.txt # Make sure there is no query string (Unless user is making a search) RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/Special:Search # Rewrite http://wiki.domain.tld/article properly, this is the main rule RewriteRule ^/(.*) /index.php/$1 [L] I think the following configuration will fit your needs (changing http://something.org to http://some.org and doing URL "beautification"): RewriteEngine on # Change http://something.org to http://some.org RewriteCond %{REQIEST_URI} ^something.org RewriteRule ^(.*) some.org$1 # Main_Page not specified RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php?tile=Main_Page [L] # Don't rewrite requests for files in MediaWiki subdirectories, # MediaWiki PHP files, HTTP error documents, favicon.ico, or robots.txt RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/stylesheets/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(redirect|texvc|index).php RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/error/(40(1|3|4)|500).html RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/favicon.ico RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots.txt # Make sure there is no query string (Unless user is making a search) RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/Special:Search # Rewrite http://wiki.domain.tld/article properly, this is the main rule RewriteRule ^/(.*) /index.php/$1 [L] Hope it helps. -- Alisson Sellaro MusicWiki :: http://www.music-wiki.org Plug It In! :: http://www.plugitin.com.br AIM : sellaropelucio ICQ : 150658836 Jabber: sellaro(a)jabber.linux.it MSN : alissonsellaro(a)hotmail.com _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l