I know this is more of an apache question, but it should be a slam-dunk and I am stuck..

I am trying to get short URLs working. I've configured mod-rewrite before on other systems and I can't find anything wrong with any of the various setups I've tried, but mod_rewrite is being ignored.

Here's my mediawiki setup:

Alias /mediawiki /var/lib/mediawiki

<Directory /var/lib/mediawiki/> Options +FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All order allow,deny allow from all </Directory>

# some directories must be protected <Directory /var/lib/mediawiki/config> Options -FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/lib/mediawiki/upload> Options -FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory>

This works fine, except that I have long URLs in the form of

http://newmoon.seiner.lan/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

I would really like

http://newmoon.seiner.lan/wiki/Main_Page

I've tried

root@NewMoon:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled# cat rewrite.conf <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mediawiki/index.php [L] RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log" RewriteLogLevel 5

</IfModule>

and various other places. If I take out the Alias in the mediawiki file, I get 404 errors.

Nothing is written in the rewrite log.

But if I intentionally break the rewrite.conf, I get an error, so I know apache is reading it, but it is not rewriting the URL ever.

I've tried adding the rewrite rules in /var/www/.htaccess, /var/lib/mediawiki/.htaccess, no joy.

Any hints on where I can look?

Thanks!