Thread:Project:Support desk/redirecting to main page: main page does not exist?/reply (4)

Modifying MediaWiki:Mainpage is a feature, which MediaWiki supports. And it will work. But it will have bad performance: MediaWiki is invoked and that only to do a redirect. A way faster method is to add an .htaccess RewriteRule, which rewrites calls to the main page to the new target. This circumvents MediaWiki and will be worlds faster.