On Jun 2, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Tom Hutchison <tom(a)hutch4.us> wrote:
Did you account for /images or /skins and a whole lot
of other things in your .htaccess file? Always a bad idea to put the install in the root.
You mean e.g. apache’s DocumentRoot or ServerRoot? I’ve been in the habit of having
mediawiki files go into a subdirectory based on (for example)
DocumentRoot/wiki/mediawiki-1.22.7. and then Alias it as DocumentRoot/wiki .
This is only the start of what you need to think of.
Robots.txt, google verification file, /extensions which store files such as processed
widgets. Search engines will have their way with your wiki. Indexing edit pages and
revision pages unless you create special rules not just Disallow /w. It will also make it
harder to upgrade which is a mute discussion at this point. Not saying root install
isn't possible. Just a whole lot of things to consider. To start: Check the path
for /images and a file. If your rewrite doesn't ignore the /images directory you'd
404 the call to it in a page. Simple test, call the hard url to an image.
/images/1/a/example.png. If it takes you to the wiki and says create a page your rewrite
is not excluding the directory and seeing it as a page.
thank you for the advice, I’ll look at that this evening.
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Rob Lingelbach
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