Thread:Manual talk:Short URL/Apache/"300 Multiple Choices"/ common basename error - what now?/reply

I don't know where the "Multiple Choices" stuff is coming from.

But the .htaccess for your site should be in the root, not in /w, because it needs to rewrite things from /wiki/ which is not under /w, so it needs to be /.htaccess not /w/.htaccess.