Manual:Short URL/wiki.example.com/Page title--Subdomain using Lighttpd
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Subdomain with no Subdirectory in Article URL using Lighttpd[edit]
To put MediaWiki in a root directory with the Lighttpd webserver, use the following rule (assuming mod_rewrite is loaded and your wiki is installed into /w relative to your document-root):
In LocalSettings.php[edit]
$wgScriptPath = '/w'; # Path to the actual files. This should already be there
$wgArticlePath = '/$1'; # Virtual path. This directory MUST be different from the one used in $wgScriptPath
$wgUsePathInfo = false; # To get special links like history or edit work
In your lighttpd.conf[edit]
url.rewrite-once = ( "(^/[^:]*[\./].*)" => "$1", "^/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))?" => "/w/index.php?title=$1&$2", )
If you want to host this on a seperate domain (which is very likely for a wiki in the root-dir) do:
$HTTP["host"] == "wiki.example.com" {
server.document-root = "/path/to/webroot"
url.rewrite-once = (
"(^/[^:]*[\./].*)" => "$1",
"^/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))?" => "/w/index.php?title=$1&$2",
)
}
If you want to allow ampersands in titles too (or any other character that might be considered an argument delimiter in the query string) you can make a more complicated rule using mod_magnet. For more information, see lighttpd's documentation about mod_magnet on their website.