Azurite, it will help us check your work if you will post a link to your wiki.

No problem. It's at http://seventh-star.net/wikific

Based on the code snippets from my LocalSettings.php and my .htaccess (from the public_html folder), what is causing this? My wiki isn't hosted in a folder called "wiki," but that seems to be what it's looking for, for some reason. Where should I edit? -Azurite

Well, this line seems a little odd to me:

$wgScriptPath = "$wgScriptPath/wiki";

Azurite wrote:

there ARE ways to use Pretty URL with PHP as CGI and *NO* root access... right?

Yes. That is my situation, too; it works. There are several ways. Instructions at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL are a little hard to untangle but my best reference.

This URL is interesting -- it works!:

http://seventh-star.net/wikific/Main_Page

(Notice that links on it however point to wrong URLs. They should point to simple http://seventh-star.net/wikific/Page_name style URLs if I understand what you want.)

And this URL informs me as follows:

http://seventh-star.net/wikific/Special:Version

MediaWiki: 1.10.1 PHP: 5.1.6 (cgi) MySQL: 4.1.22-standard ******** NOTE: My hazy recollection is PHP 5.1 does NOT PLAY NICE with MedaiWiki. Someone please confirm! ******** and you have several EXTENSIONS and HOOKS installed.

Azurite, the devil is in the details:

0) What operating system and Web server are you running on your server? Linux? Apache? What is the name of your Webhost, and Web hosting plan name?

1) Is this what you want the base URL to your wiki to be?:

http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific

(I see that currently /index.php/index.php/index.php... is looping onto that so fixing that first)

***I think*** you can fix that by changing these two lines:

$wgScriptPath = "$wgScriptPath/wiki"; $wgArticlePath = "$wgScriptPath/$1";

to:

$wgScriptPath = "wikific"; $wgArticlePath = "/$1";

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2) Is this the kind of short URLs you want?:

http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific/Name_of_page

3) Is this the location of your wiki installation on your server?:

/home/you/public_html/wikific/

4) Is this the entire relevant contents of /home/you/public_html/.htaccess ?:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^wiki/(.+)$ /wikific/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

5) Do you have a /home/you/public_html/wikific/.htaccess ?

(You may want to *move* your wiki .htaccess here for efficiency; although it is working now, in its present location it routs all hits to all urls at seventh-star.net needlessly through this rewrite. You only *need* seventh-star.net/wikific hits to go through this rewrite.)

Caveat: I'm a pudding head -- anyone can do what I can do but not necessarily by following my pudding headed instructions but give it a try. The devil is in several details. Good luck!

Roger Chrisman wrote:

Roger Chrisman wrote:

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$wgScriptPath       = "wikific"; $wgArticlePath      = "/$1";

I may have above wrong. If it doesn't work, try:

$wgScriptPath = "wikific"; $wgArticlePath = "$wgScriptPath/$1";

Let us know what happens.

Sorry I don't know, but maybe this in LocalSettings.php:

$wgScriptPath = "/wikific"; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php";

## If using PHP as a CGI module, use the ugly URLs # $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript/$1"; $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1";

And this in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on Options FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /wikific/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

No I'm not trying to be unhelpfully complex. I just don't really know how it works but above works for me with PHP as CGI on Linux and Apache.

Azurite wrote:

Here's what I have in the two necessary files:

Good stuff. You should post this on the Talk page for the Short URL help page on mediawiki.org so it's documented for others. I am _certain_ others will appreciate it - questions about this have shown up on the mwusers forum.

Mike

I posted my solution from here on the Manual: Short URL talk page already, but I'll be glad to add/move it to the overview/overview talk page if that's a better place for it. But I've just been told that the solution is not 100% complete:

On one of my Wiki pages (http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific/Shizuka_Kawai), the links out (to other pages in the Wiki) are for some reason looking for http://seventh-star.net/wiki/ArticleName, which is not my directory (wiki is not; wikific is). I don't know why it's looking for this. Oddly enough, when I go to edit the page, in the preview that shows above the edit box, the links are correct when I hover over them AND when I click on them!

Does anyone have an idea as to why this may be, if my settings (from previous emails) in .htaccess and LocalSettings.php were fine enough to load everything properly? What a mystery! -Azurite

When there is a release candidate, it will be announced here and you'll see it on mediawiki.org Regards,

On 9/3/07, Metaspheres metaspheres@yahoo.com wrote:

Was supposed to be released a couple of weeks ago. What happened? Is there a release candidate available (aside from going through the drudgery of subversion)? The suspense is killing me.

Sincerely,

Sven

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Out of curiosity I would be interested to know whether this configuration allows you to have pages that include an ampersand?

E.g 'Hammer & Nail'

When I tried this (using httpd.conf) I was able to create the page but when I tried to edit it I was taken to 'Hammer '. The ampersand broke the URL.

I seem to recall that the question mark symbol is problematic also.

Paul

On 9/2/07 8:24 PM, "Azurite" azurite@seventh-star.net wrote:

Thank you everyone for your help! I got it working-- short URLs *AND* CSS! Here's what I have in the two necessary files:

LocalSettings.php:

$wgSitename = "WikiFic";

## If using PHP as a CGI module, use the ugly URLs $wgScriptPath = "/wikific"; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgArticlePath = "$wgScriptPath/$1";

$wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php";

$wgStylePath = "{$wgScriptPath}/skins"; $wgStyleDirectory = "$IP/skins"; $wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/wikific_logo.png";

$wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/images"; $wgUploadDirectory = "$IP/images";

.htacess:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^wikific/(.+)$ /wikific/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

For anyone that has difficulty with this on their own webspace and wants to follow similar directions, my install works as such:

• PHP as CGI module
• Wiki installed in its own subdomain/folder, wikific (which is in the

public_html), a folder on a shared host (NO ROOT ACCESS).

Once again, thanks to everyone with all their suggestions and helpful info! -Azurite

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$wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php";

## If using PHP as a CGI module, use the ugly URLs $wgScriptPath = "/wikific";

You're using $wgScriptPath before defining it. That can't help matters...

Azurite wrote:

I am curious though, what is the purpose of the curly brackets in the values for some of these settings? The Manual seems to make it seem like they're necessary, but I'm not sure.

On php, you can insert a variable ($variable) into a text string and have it expanded ("The variable value is $variable Is that right?". However, under some circunsances, you need it to be into curly braces to be susbtituted.