Hello Wilinckx, Here are my responses to your questions: Q.the kind of URL you'd like to have - I would like to have url look like how it is in en.wikipedia.org ie en.wikipedia.org/Unix etc etc.. Q. the URL's MediaWiki links to when he links to an Article Also please note, I am unable to login or do anything at all once I try to make non ugly urls. - Currently the links look like this http://wiki/wiki/index.php?title=FEC if the changes do work I would anticipate they look like http://wiki/wiki/FEC Q. the URL MediaWiki says in it's HTML output the MonoBook CSS files should be found - Here's the entry in the html output that you are asking for. <style type="text/css" media="screen,projection">/*<![CDATA[*/ @import "/wiki/skins/monobook/main.css"; /*]]>*/</style> Q. the name of the directory MediaWiki is installed in - Mediawiki is installed in /opt/local/htdocs/wiki Q. the part of LocalSettings.php containing $wgScriptPath, $wgStylePath , etc - Settings from Localsettings.php are as follows. $wgScriptPath = "/wiki"; $wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins"; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php"; Q. and the mod-rewrite rules you've setup in httpd.conf ? - The .htaccess in /opt/local/htdocs/wiki/ contains the following entries. ----------------------------- # close the php security hole... # not actually needed but probably a good idea anyway php_flag register_globals off # first, enable the processing - Unless your ISP has it enabled # already. That might cause weird errors. RewriteEngine on # uncomment this rule if you want Apache to redirect from www.mysite.com/ to # www.mysite.com/wiki/Main_Page RewriteRule ^/$ /wiki/Main_Page [R] # do the rewrite RewriteRule ^wiki/?(.*)$ /w/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA] ----------------------------- The httpd.conf has the following entries in the very end. ## Wiki Settings Alias /wiki /opt/local/htdocs/wiki/index.php Alias /index.php /opt/local/htdocs/wiki/index.php RewriteEngine on RewriteLog "logs/rewrite.log" RewriteLogLevel 5