Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck <at> spamcop.net> writes: Well, According to various tutorials that I found on the Internet, this problem only occurs on some Linux solutions. A friend of mine has done the same on a Windows machine and not have these problems there. Furthermore, it should even be possible to forward to the startpage in the database.(I hope that the site exists in the database) If this is not possible, I hope that the possibility exists to forward to the search page of Wikipedia. I know no other way to access wikipedia than through the Startpage. But it is a case please tell me. AlexanderS.

Alexander Schuhmann wrote: I think the problem is that you don't have the namespaces configured correctly. By default, there's an interwiki of 'wikipedia' pointing to English wikipedia. As the German wikipedia main page is Wikipedia:Hauptseite, you get that odd redirect. Remove the wikipedia entry from the interwiki table. You should now be able to browse to the pages without getting redirected to English wikipedia. If you didn't have $wgMetaNamespace set to 'Wikipedia', set it so that the pages are found (I think that mwdumper will have correctly put Wikipedia:Hauptseite at Project:Hauptseite, other tools would have placed Wikipedia:Hauptseite at the main namespace).