Manual:Short URL/wiki/Page title -- Lighttpd rewrite--root access

Lighttpd rewrite #1
Example configuration: Then there are two things needed to change in two files:
 * wiki is installed in /w/ direcotry in http root dir.
 * you want to avoid index.php
 * you want to access articles as /wiki/Article
 * lighttpd.conf
 * enable mod_rewrite in server modules
 * add below code as rewriting (first line should use +=, not =, if you have other rewrite-once rules, or append these to the ones you have):

url.rewrite-once = (    # What does this line do?  It seems to prevent any page with a dot in its     # name from being rewritten, unless it's preceded by a colon.     # "(^/wiki/[^:]*[\./].*)" => "$1",     "^/wiki/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))?" => "/w/index.php?title=$1&$2",     "^/wiki" => "/w/index.php", ) After restarting lighttpd it should work. The code is not fully rewriting the code cause pages lik Linking to this page or Printable version etc are linked to /w/index.php?... anyway. So this code requires tweaking by more experienced users.
 * now edit /w/LocalSettings.php

Lighttpd rewrite #2
Here a working setup for pretty URLs like http://florian-konnertz.de/wiki/Hauptseite


 * MW root is in doc root subfolder 'wiki/'
 * lighttpd-1.4.13
 * mediawiki-1.11.0


 * In LocalSettings.php:

$wgScriptPath      = "/wiki";	     // where the wiki root is under the doc root $wgArticlePath	    = "/wiki/$1";   // how rel.urls are prefixed on the page $wgUsePathInfo	    = false;        // if MW determines the page by URL path and not only by URL query args


 * lighttpd.conf:

url.rewrite-once = (           "^/wiki/[sS]kins.*$"  =>      "$0",            "^/wiki/([^\?]*)$"    =>      "/wiki/index.php?title=$1",	)


 * First line returns subrequest urls to css files etc. unchanged.
 * Second line checks for URLs without "?" (assumes it's a simple URL like above)


 * URLs which pass both are left unchanged, ie. http://florian-konnertz.de/wiki/index.php?title=Spezial:Abmelden&returnto=Hauptseite

Not completely sure if i didnt miss a possible case... hope this helps groovehunter 05:37, 28 May 2008 (UTC)