Thread:Manual talk:Short URL/Apache/Never applies the rules even when AllowOverride is on./reply

Note that only adding stuff to apache config files doesn't automagically make MediaWiki aware of the new URL scheme. You should change $wgArticlePath accordingly so MediaWiki generates URLs following that scheme.

You said you want your URLS to be http://mywiki.com/article, but you set up rules for URLs like http://mywiki.com/wiki/article :

RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/fts/index.php [L]

Also note that the URL scheme you propose is not recommended, since there are more paths under your mywiki.com domain that shouldn't be treated as wiki pages. Looks like you're missing reading/understanding some important parts of the manual.

And I don't understand why do you have a fts link pointing to the parent folder. That's really awkward.