[Mediawiki-l] Trying to get Short URLs to work

[Paul Coghlan]

I am trying to get the short URLs working and after searching the mailing
list archives don't see a solution to my problem anywhere.

I am starting to think that the Drupal modifications (see bottom) to
.htaccess are causing my "Page not found" errors on all Mediawiki pages.

I followed the instructions at both URLs below but have had little success.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_url
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Using_a_very_short_URL

Here are my steps so far:

1) I have added the following line into my LocalSettings.php file.

$wgArticlePath="/wiki/$1";

2) I have added the following line to my .htaccess file in the DocumentRoot
folder (/public_html)

RewriteRule ^/wiki/(.*)$ /archives/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]

Note that Mediawiki is installed into a folder called archives off of the
root (public_html). So the mediawiki index.php is located at

public_html/archives/index.php

I have Drupal installed into the root folder which already had inserted the
lines below into the .htaccess file. I simply added my new line below these.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

This has now become (to include the Mediawiki rule):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/wiki/(.*)$ /archives/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Paul