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

[Rotem Liss]

Ken McDonald wrote:

>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
>_______________________________________________
>MediaWiki-l mailing list
>MediaWiki-l at Wikimedia.org
>http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
>
>  
>
Of course, I meant to say that the PHP redirect will solve the second 
problem.


-- 
#define Name RotemLiss
#define Mail mailSTRUDELrotemlissDOTcom
#define Site www.rotemliss.com