Thread:Project:Support desk/MediaWiki installation and Short URLs

I have tried everything that that anyone has told me to do. I just can't get make it so that the url just reads "athena.my-domain.local". (Athena is my wiki's name). I added the proper DNS settings in my Domain Controller as well so that the Server itself can be resolved by name.

Maybe I did this all wrong from the beginning so if anyone can clarify for me if what I did was right or wrong it would be great:

When I downloaded Mediawiki, the .tar.gz file was placed in the directory /home/mhtadmin/mediawiki-1.23.1.tar.gz then I decompressed the file and it remained in the same directory but was then called "mediawiki-1.23.1" then I renamed the file to just "mediawiki" and moved it (and all of its contents) to /var/www/ because I thought that's what I was supposed to do since /var/www/ is where index.html is. The directory is now /var/www/mediawiki. I then moved the LocalSettings.php into /mediawiki where it needed to be. At this point I was able to access my wiki page but now the URL reads "http://ip-address/mediawiki/index.php or I can browse to it by typing in "athena.my-domain.local/mediawiki/index.php" but when I log in it goes back to the IP address URL.

The directions on the mediawiki website on how to create a Short URL for Apache talk about "/w" and "/wiki" directories, I do not have these. This is frustrating me to say the least.

Can anyone help me? Please don't be vague in descriptions, be as specific and detailed as possible. I just wanna get this thing fully working :?(