Thread:Manual talk:Short URL/Apache/$wgArticlePath (2)/reply

The phrasing is somewhat confusing, but it isn't wrong. What is important is that your virtual article path does not conflict with the script path. The default configuration has no separate article path, so there is no conflict.

Script path: /w Article path: /w/index.php?title=$1
 * 1) Default

Now, if you decide to set up Short URLs, then you set up rewrite rules. In that case it is important that your shortcut does not match the script path:

Script path: /w Article path: /w/$1
 * 1) Short URLs: WRONG

Here there is a conflict because  can be an article or a file.

Script path: /w Article path: /wiki/$1
 * 1) Short URLs: RIGHT

Here there is no conflict (this is also how Wikipedia.org and MediaWiki.org are configured). is a script,  is an article.