Manual talk:Short URL/LocalSettings.php

cgi hint

With CGI it is now possible to have Short URLs.

Add the two following lines to LocalSettings.php:

$wgUsePathInfo = true;
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/index.php/$1"; (my installation of mw is in the subfolder /wiki)

Tested with PHP 5.2.6 CGI/FastCGI and Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) and MediaWiki 1.13.1 --79.198.93.195 21:20, 11 September 2008 (UTC)