Well.

It appears I had installed 1.2.0 instead of a newer release. Downloaded and installed 1.2.5 and it found that my PHP installation was configured with apache2handler and it did all the right things to run with ugly URLs and now everything is fine. Sorry to have been an idiot.

brad

The Centerfielder wrote:

Thanks for the fast response. I'll give all this a try when I get to work tomorrow; I do know the web install complained of an older version of PHP, but I was unable to find the latest version as an .rpm, so went with the default.

And thanks for the fine software; it's very impressive.

brad

Brion Vibber wrote:

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On May 4, 2004, at 18:07, The Centerfielder wrote:

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I've installed MediaWiki on an ISP's servers and had no trouble. Recently I built a RedHat box for an internal wiki at work, and URLs of the form

http://internal.domain/index.php/Main_Page

result in a 404 error. I've applied the suggested RewriteEngine rules specified at http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_config#mod_rewrite to a .htaccess file where index.php is, but that didn't help. Any suggestions?

Some PHP configurations don't allow using extended path information after the script name; in particular when configured as CGI or 'apache2handler' it will fail. The (web-based) install tries to detect known-bad configurations, but it might have missed yours or if you installed 1.2.4 it won't have had the apache2handler detection in yet.

Add this to LocalSettings.php: $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1";

and if necessary this: $wgUsePathInfo = false;

Now make sure your rewrite configuration is using the long-form URLs for the destination (/index.php?title=Main_Page)

Can you run the following short script to check if it's something new we have to check for?

<?php print "PHP server API is: " . php_sapi_name(); ?>

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)