[Mediawiki-l] Changing the name of the front page, a few site/page name-related other questions.

[Ken McDonald]

Our front page won't be named "Main_Page", but "Welcome to...". Is there 
a way to change MW's "default" page? I'm guessing that moving the Main 
Page to the page name we want to show up would write in an automatic 
redirect, so that opening the site would open Main_Page, which would 
then redirect to "Welcome to..."--but I don't know for sure (and don't 
want to find out the hard way that it doesn't work!), and am also 
wondering if there's a "better" way. I poked around in the 
DefaultSettings.php and did searches on it, but the only hits I found 
weren't relevant.

Also, a question that may or many not be relevant to MW, but since 
you're reading :-) . . . the entry URL for the site is currently 
http://www.myserver.com/site which opens up the main page. However, 
http://www.myserver.com shows the contents of the directory the holds 
the site directory. We certainly want that blocked, and if possible 
(since for the time being the wiki is the only thing that will be 
running at that site) would like a reference to http://www.myserver.com 
to automatically open the front page of the wiki.

I've tried putting in a .htaccess denying all access into 'site''s 
parent directory (just copied the one in "maintenance") so that 
http://www.myserver.com/ would be blocked, but that doesn't seem to 
work--do I need to restart the Apache server? And is a redirect via 
.htaccess the simplest way to achieve the desired redirect from the site 
name to the wiki?

As always, many thanks,
Ken