Re: [Mediawiki-l] Short URL reflecting wiki structure, no www

that if someone types in www.mydomain.com, the page that loads is mydomain.com. I think have managed to stop jumping from www to no-www between loging in by using $wgServer = "http://mydomain.com"; in my localsettings.php page, but someone can still load a page by typing the www in the address bar. Any thoughts on this one?"

Hello, Please bear with me, I'm really new to using wikimedia, and am not familiar with .htaccess work. I have searched the mailing list archives, but haven't found much. I have Googled, and have read several times the manual ('short URL' and 'using very short URL' in particular). I have attempted several variations of the suggestions found there, but I must be missing something relatively simple... Problem is, I have no idea what I'm missing. I am putting in a new wiki. I have the install in the root of the domain. Currently, my urls look like: http://mydomain.com/index.php?title=Main_Page First, I want to make sure that the www is never used in urls, and that if someone types in www.mydomain.com, the page that loads is mydomain.com. I think have managed to stop jumping from www to no-www between loging in by using $wgServer = "http://mydomain.com"; in my localsettings.php page, but someone can still load a page by typing the www in the address bar. Any thoughts on this one? Second, I'm wanting to get Short URL/Very Short URL working. I'm looking at using the .htaccess rewrite method, but all .htaccess example base themselves on the wiki being installed in /wiki or /w and I can't figure out how to get this to work? Would anyone have a working .htaccess sample for a wiki installed at /root ? Finally, what I'd *prefer* would be to reflect the site's structure within the URL, and end up with something like: http://mydomain.com/category/subcategory/article or http://mydomain.com/category/article This obviously addresses those pages which belong in categories and/or subcategories only. Thank you for any assistance or pointers on this topic, Sean _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l