[Mediawiki-l] moving wiki "root"?

[Christensen, Courtney]

Couldn't you leave the files where they are and modify your apache re-write rules?  I don't use apache so I'm not sure on this one, but it sounds like what people have used it for.

Good luck!
-Courtney




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From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of McHale, Nina
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:12 AM
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] moving wiki "root"?

Hi, all,

First post--please don't hurt me. :)

I installed MediaWiki a couple of months ago to begin using as an intranet for about 80 people in an academic library environment. At the time, the idea was to only have a portion of the intranet be a wiki. Now, I'm sold, and I want to make the wiki the environment for the whole intranet. Question: how do I move the wiki files from /siterootfolder/wiki/ to just having the wiki files be the site root? Can I just dump them into the site root folder, or would that break stuff, including the existing articles? :)

Part of my motivation for doing this is shortening URLs even more:

http://hostname/wiki/My_Article_Title

http://hostname/My_Article_Title 

I feel like if the intranet is contained entirely within the wiki, we don't need the extra /wiki/ in the URL.

Does MediaWiki work okay installed in the site root folder? Oh, and of course, there is already content in the wiki...

Thanks in advance for your help,

Nina
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