Thread:Manual talk:Short URL/Apache/what one of the rewrite rules actually does on different versions of Apache

The rule 'RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mediawiki/index.php [L]' seems to work on Apache 2 to redirect hostname/wiki_folder to hostname/wiki_URL_path. On Apache 1, which is still the default on one (probably all) the main BSD distros (though you can install an Apache 2 package--it is just recommended not to install any other packages than the base system unless you absolutely need their functions,) the rule seems to redirect the root of one's entire site to the wiki. Please be clear about what these rules do and give recommendations that will work for both main versions of Apache.'