Hi

I'm trying to get MediaWiki running on a Fedora 1 i686 box with Fedora PHP 4.3.4, Fedore Apache 2.0.48 and MySQL 4.0.17 from www.mysql.com.

At the moment I'm installing one site but if it goes well I might want to install others on the same server.

I'm getting confused with the directories and the suggested httpd.conf.

In LocalSettings.pm I have this:

$IP = "/var/www/wiki/wiki"; $wgServer = "http://wiki.example.com"; $wgScriptPath = "/wiki"; $wgArticlePath = "{$wgScript}?title=$1";

For httpd.conf I have (style and upload dirs left out to make it shorter):

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName wiki.example.com

DocumentRoot "/var/www/wiki"

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .phtml AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps php_admin_flag engine off

<Directory "/var/www/wiki/wiki"> DirectoryIndex wiki.phtml php_admin_flag engine on AllowOverride None order allow,deny allow from all </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

This basically works but at / there is the default Fedora page that is served when there is no index.html

I did try getting it installed in /var/www/wiki rather than /var/www/wiki/wiki but that didn't work, I've also not got any mod-rewrite rules working (I have tried to get them working but with no luck).

I'd like a directory / httpd.conf /mod_rewrite setup that would seperate off the code that is repeated for multiple sites from the site specific stuff and I'd like URIs that are as short as possible (I guess /w/ and /wiki/ can't be left out?).

Do people use a ScriptAlias for /w/ or something?

Does anyone have a setup that that they could post as an example (I have spent some time in this list archives and on the web site but couldn't find any answers...)?

One other thing, what is the difference between these two, is the $wgDBsqlpassword variable the MySQL root password (that is what I'm using but I don't understand why I'm also prompted for it when I run install.php):

$wgDBpassword = ""; $wgDBsqlpassword = "";

Thanks

Chris