I've been working on upgrading a wiki I administer to the lastest vestion of MediaWiki from the svn repository, and have run into an odd issue with URL rewriting.

I've disabled the RewriteEngine in my .htaccess file while trying to puzzles out exactly what's been going on, but it seems that attempts for me to navigate to the url http://test.krakiipedia.org/w/, which is where the wiki software resides, result in the URL http://test.krakiipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W/index.php and a 'The page isn't redirecting properly' error in Firefox.

Another example: http://test.krakiipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page Results in: http://test.krakiipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W/index.php With the same error displayed by Firefox.

Now, for the really curious part. The URL http://test.krakiipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit sort of seems to work, telling me I need to login to edit the page, which is normal. However, I can't log in to see if anything else is happening. It also appears as it it's trying to have me edit the page named "W/index.php" instead of "Main Page".

The best I can come up with is that $1 in my $wgArticlePath definition is being replaced with "W/index,php" regardless of anything.

The relevant lines from my LocalSettings.php files are:

$wgScriptPath = "/w"; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php"; #$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; $wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1";

I normally have my .htaccess file set up to rewrite the URL in the form of " http://test.krakiipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page", and I originally thought this was the cause, but it seems to be the 1.9alpha version.

I've run the database update on a copy of the live database that is running 1.6.7 now, which didn't help the situation.

Any ideas?

Oliver Kurek