Manual:Wiki in site root directory
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Why to, or not, use the root directory of a Web site as the wiki directory.
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[edit] Reasons why putting wiki pages in the root directory of the web site is bad
- You need special rules for robots.txt or favicon.ico, also for all wiki support files like skin images. See [1]
- Any scheme which does this is not supported by the MediaWiki developers. So if your scheme doesn't work with a new MediaWiki version, you're on your own.
Use the configuration used by Wikipedia if you want to be on the safe side.
TODO: Add mailing list references and expand the above
[edit] Wiki specific domainnames or subdomainnames
I like these two examples for sites that are predominantly wiki. If wiki is to be the dominant paradigm of a site, then no special wiki directory is needed and to use one is redundant and counter intuitive.
Why should above be deprecated? Please be specific, of course.
- Frankly, I'd agree. There should be better guides to getting this to work - I've tried everything on this site, including the Mediawiki type one (which I wouldn't prefer, but would be better than the huge and ugly URL I'm getting at the moment - /mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page is a huge waste of space when I only need /Main_Page for my site.
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- I strongly agree as well. This is really irritating -- we want to put the site's main wiki on a separate machine, and wiki.example.com/wiki/ is silly versus wiki.example.com/
