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

Well, this line seems a little odd to me: $wgScriptPath = "$wgScriptPath/wiki";

ETA: Now it's trying to find http://www.seventh-star.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page, and I don't know why. There's nothing in either the .htaccess or the LocalSettings.php that says just "wiki" when it comes to defining a path or URL. 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. Here's my updated LocalSettings.php and .htaccess snippets: $wgSitename = "WikiFic"; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php"; ## If using PHP as a CGI module, use the ugly URLs $wgScriptPath = "/wikific"; $wgArticlePath = "{$wgScript}/$1"; $wgStylePath = "{$wgScriptPath}/skins"; $wgStyleDirectory = "$IP/skins"; $wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/wikific_logo.png"; $wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/images"; $wgUploadDirectory = "$IP/images"; .htaccess: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^wikific/(.+)$ /wikific/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA] -Azurite

Azurite wrote: 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 = "/$1"; *************************** 2) Is this the kind of short URLs you want?: http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific/Name_of_page 3) Is this the location of your wiki installation on your server?: /home/you/public_html/wikific/ 4) Is this the entire relevant contents of /home/you/public_html/.htaccess ?: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^wiki/(.+)$ /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 :-) http://Wikigogy.org <-- English lesson plans

Thomas Dalton wrote: I think that is why it is using "wiki" per some default defined elsewhere. Not what you want. The $wgScript line must come *after* the $wgScriptPath line in LocalSettings.php. Make it so. I keep $wgScriptPath line right above $wgScript line to keep this obvious, eg: $wgScriptPath = "...."; $wgScript = "...."; And be sure nothing else that references $wgScriptPath is above it. -- Roger Chrisman :-) http://Wikigogy.org -- English lesson plans

Roger Chrisman wrote: 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. -- Roger Chrisman :-)

Azurite wrote: 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

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" &lt;azurite(a)seventh-star.net&gt; wrote:

Azurite wrote: Probably just a cache issue. The links on http://www.seventh-star.net/wikific/Shizuka_Kawai look fine to me and work fine for me. If you still have trouble with that, you could go to the problem page, click its history tab, change "action=history" on the end of the URL to "action=purge" and hit Enter. That helps clear some stuff up sometimes. No sure what technically happens, but it refreshes cached stuff for the page. Roger