I see, sorry I didn't understand. It works great. Thank you.
---Mike
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bilal Abdul Kader Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 9:42 PM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Redirect
This index.php should be at the root where you placed index.html with the redirect. This is different than index.php that is used by Wiki inside your wiki directory.
bilal
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Praising Jesus 1611kjb@gmail.com wrote:
I don't understand.
The file index.php is not visible to the internet (it's in a subdirectory called mediawiki) and certainly won't be seen by anyone typing wiki.1611kjb.org As I understand it, the standard is for a browser to look for index.html and then default.html and those must be in the root directory. I was under the impression that if I put a file called
.htaccess
in the root directory for the website (i.e., /wiki.1611kjb.org), the browser would follow that file. I found some directions on a website that implied
I
should create the file with the following inside:
Redirect permanent /wiki.1611kjb.org/ http://wiki.1611kjb.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
But it doesn't work.
If I remove index.html, default.html and .htaccess from the root, then
when
someone types in the domain name, they see my directory structure. Consequently, how would I get a browser accessing my site to read a file called index.php buried in a subdirectory (for that matter, if they could see that file, I wouldn't need a redirect, they'd already be accessing the file I'm trying to redirect to.
---Mike
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bilal Abdul Kader Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 7:14 PM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Redirect
use index.php
inside that file
<?php header("Location: http://wiki.1611kjb.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page "); ?>
bilal
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Praising Jesus 1611kjb@gmail.com wrote:
This is more of a general setup question than Wikimedia specific, but
I'm
certain you folks will have an answer.
My domain is 1611kjb.org. I created a sub domain called wiki.1611kjb.org
I want people, when they type in wiki.1611kjb.org to be redirected to
http://wiki.1611kjb.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
For the moment, I am using an index.html file with a refresh in it, but
not
all browsers support that method. I have been trying to do it with an .htaccess file, but I can't seem to get it to work. The sight is hosted
on
an Apache server running Linux with FrontPage Extensions activated.
What is the best way to get the redirect to happen correctly?
---Mike
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