[Mediawiki-l] Losing the index.php

[Patrick Atoon]

Howdy,

I've been experimenting with RewriteRules and LocalSettings.php
to get rid of the "index.php" in the URL, but I'm running into
unexpected problems.

The setup now seems to work using:

---- LocalSettings.php ----------------------------------
$wgScriptPath       = "";
$wgScript           = $wgScriptPath . "/index.php";
---------------------------------------------------------

"Seems", because there is a strange balance between Apache and
PHP keeping the "index.php" most of the time out of the URL. The
correct setup would be:

---- LocalSettings.php ----------------------------------
$wgScriptPath       = "";
$wgScript           = "";
---------------------------------------------------------

but this causes an infinite "Error 302 Moved Temporarily" loop
(Using Firefox, Apache 2.0.52, Squid 2.5 and Mediawiki 1.3.8) for
the URL in the script tag on each page:

   <script src="?title=-&amp;action=raw&amp;gen=js&amp;smaxage=0"
   type="text/javascript"></script>

It looks like the empty $wgScript causes the mayhem in the
function getLocalURL() in Title.php (via Skin.php and SkinPHPTal.php).
The code looks sensible, though.

My RewriteRules look like this:

---- httpd.conf -----------------------------------------
RewriteEngine On

# Redirect old /wiki/ urls
RewriteRule ^/wiki/(.*)$ http://www.rapdict.org/$1 [R,L]

RewriteRule ^/index.php/(.*)$ http://www.rapdict.org/$1 [R,L]

# Don't rewrite requests for files in MediaWiki subdirectories,
# MediaWiki PHP files, HTTP error documents, favicon.ico, or robots.txt
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(stylesheets|images|skins)/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(redirect|texvc|index).php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/error/(40(1|3|4)|500).html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/favicon.ico
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots.txt

# Rewrite http://wiki.domain.tld/article properly, this is the main rule
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
---------------------------------------------------------

Does anyone know how to counter the infinite 302 loop for that script
URL?

Greetings,

Patrick

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