[Mediawiki-l] Overriding Ugly URL's

[Michelle]

We're trying to switch hosting of our wiki to a provider that doesn't  
limit the max_questions resource (Lunarpages).  We've got everything  
working, but not until I switched LocalSettings.php from 'pretty' to  
ugly URL's.

First, is there an intelligent way for me to ask Lunarpages why their  
php is installed this way and if something simple can be changed?

Second, I've read http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ 
Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url but I'm not sure if the .htaccess  
suggestions will work for the case of keeping index.php but changing  
to the pretty URL, especially since we're running from a subdomain.   
Has anyone done that?

Michelle