New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Really confused new user re-directing to Main_Page

2 Aug 2007


      I just did a install of mediawiki 3 days ago so I know absolutely nothing,
well I did get some great help on editing pages.
I know absolutely nothing about PHP.
I am having a hard time with a starting page.
After the install and initial startup of the wiki I go to:
http://mywiki.xxx:90/DHLXMLwiki/index.php/Main_Page
Ok, so I figure I can just start here and add some text and get on my way.
However I am getting to the wiki by way of a re-direct on a Windows 2003 IIS
web server to an Apache web server
on a different machine on the network.
My re-direct is set for http://mywiki.xxx/index.php/Main_Page
BUT (a big but) the URL in the browser is
http://mywiki.xxx:90/DHLXMLwiki/index.php/Main_Page/
There is no Main_Page/ so I am prompted to edit the page:
Main Page/
There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title
http://dhlxml.mobiledhl.com:90/DHLXMLwiki/index.php/Special:Search/Main_Pag
e/  in other pages or edit
http://dhlxml.mobiledhl.com:90/DHLXMLwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page/&action
=edit  this page.
What is the suggested way of doing a re-direct from IIS?
I have to use IIS for some other web sites at the IP address so, that I can
see, I have to use a re-direct.
This is really confusing to say the least.
Thanks for the help.
Ralph