Denny Schierz wrote:

hi,

we switched from the source package to Debians one. We had a structure like:

http://www.foo.org/index.php/page

Debians version has:

http://www.foo.org/mediawiki/index.php/page

so, my problem is now, that nearly every "hard" link is now broken. I want to fix these links with mod_rewrite, but i'm not sure how. I know the page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL but i don't get it. We have also installed mailman and some more in the same way, so that i can't redirect easy all to the mediwiki/ folder.

So, what i want, is that every "hard URL" works, like before. One way were to suppress the mediawiki/ folder or, redirect from the URL without mediawiki/, to the correct page, _with_ mediawiki/

any suggestions?

cu denny

What about telling apache that the root folder is the mediawiki/ one?

Remember to change $wgArticlePath and $wgScriptPath at LocalSettings.php, so MediaWiki expects to be called as /index.php/page

However, I do recommend against using debian packages for mediawiki. Mediawiki is php, so there aren't binary versions, the debian package usually: *Are outdated. *Break the normal configuration in odd ways. *Which in turn, makes harder to help you.

And MediaWiki does a very good job installing directly. :)