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I'm trying to change the default Main Page title and the URL.

I only see instructions on How do I change the Main Page title.

I also would like to change the URL to reflect the new homepage title.

I would like for my URL to go from this:

http://haitipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

to that:

http://haitipedia.org/wiki/Haitipedia

Versions:

MediaWiki version 1.16.2

PHP 5.x

MySQL 5.0.91-log

Hosting: GoDaddy Shared Linux

Hi Techies247,

You linked to the solution already: How do I change the Main Page title.

So follow the instructions ;-)

How do I change the Main Page title reads:
Simply click on the "Move" tab, and move the page to the desired page title.
Usually you also want to change which page is the main page.

So

• Move the Main Page to Haitipedia (or create it as a new page)
• Configure that "Haitipedia" should now be shown when opening the wiki (→ change which page is the main page)

Great this is working fine for me.. but the problem is I am able to do this is Authoring Wiki. When I pushing the content to English Wiki its not reflecting there. Can anyone help me please.

Hi Krinkle,

I followed up you instruction, it works on my local machine.

However, when I moved everything on to my hosting server. The main page reverted to .../index.php/Main_Page (which is supposed to be .../index.php/New_Name)

I repeat what I have done on my local machine, it just does not work on my hosting server. (in MediaWiki:mainpage, it still says New Name) The same issue happens to tab as well. (the value of MediaWiki:mainpage-nstab is ignored, and it still shows "Pages" on the main page)

Can you shed some light on this issue?

Cheers, Kevin

Are there any different values in both LocalSettings.php (apart from database connection and maybe some URL)?

Thanks for your reply.

I just did a "diff" on both LocalSettings.php files (remote and local), the only different is the DB connection setting. Nothing else.

Cheers, Kevin

Try running the maintenance script rebuildmessages.php. If it fails, try also rebuildLocalisationCache.php --force

i install wikimedia on my xamp localhost. in broser url like this one http://localhost/wikimedia/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

i want to remove index.php from url. how to do it please provide me step by step guide because i am fresher in wikimedia.

See Manual:Short URL/Apache and Differences between Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki

Hello. I tried to change the datename of Healthy Fandoms and Hatedoms wiki. Can you help me, please?

Did you follow the instructions? What's the result? Can you post a link to the wiki?