Manual talk:Short URL/wiki/Page title -- no root access

Possible Syntax Error
There appears to be a syntax error in the instructions to setup the .htaccess file.

There are 3 references to a path w/index.php?title but the rest of the document refers to wiki/ being the base path.

Chaning the instances of w/ to wiki/ should get it working. --Paul D. 72.243.145.70 05:27, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Syntax Change
Rather than refer to wiki/ as being the directory, it might be better to use  wiki_path / with a callout that wiki_path is the location under public_html (or www) of your installation. --Paul D. 72.243.145.70 05:27, 15 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I think it should be  --Alvin-cs 12:50, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

This solution partially worked for me
I've got Apache2Triad installed with mediawiki in a htdocs/wiki directory. I had to take the basename code out as recommended and the wiki loads up, I can edit mainspace articles, but user:space, Special:space template:space doesn't seem to be operating - any ideas? en:user:joopercoopers--81.77.220.89 03:04, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Worked, but a problem
I had to changed index.php to php5 since on our host. That solved the issue, but we have a bigger problem - we have a forum installion within our public_html folder - thus, any links going directing to our .com are instead returning a 500 error.

Is there anyway to do the htaccess file WITHIN the wiki folder? --71.177.82.149 07:32, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Had to change a few things
Here's how my changed htaccess looks.

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)$ w/index.php5?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA] - Added the 5 to .php RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ w/ [L,QSA] - Changed the second wiki/ with w/

This allows me to run it on the /wiki directory while having a forum in the main directory. --Mephisteus 17:36, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

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Not working
I still cannot get this to work. I've tried having my wiki in both a "w" directory, as well as a "wiki" directory. All I'm getting are 500 error messages. .htaccess is enabled on my site, as I regularly change URLs and such. I've really got no idea where the problem is coming from.

How to get this to work
I've got my wiki installed on wiki.example.com and it's in the root dir for this subdomain. How can I get this to work?
 * Okay got it, it's very easy and you only have to remove a few things. Enjoy!

Root Access
Doesn't having to mess with followSymLinks and "AllowOverride None" defeat the purpose of this tutorial being made for people with no root access?
 * The article mentions AllowOverride None at the end so that people whose .htaccess files aren't working will know what to ask their hosts. Being able to ask your host to change a setting is not the same thing as having root access. —Emufarmers(T 21:18, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Improvement/source of problems?
With the help of richardk of http://forum.modrewrite.com/viewtopic.php?t=5463 I use the following rules to have the added side-benefit that old links to URLs using index.php are automatically redirected to the new URL scheme. This means that http://sitename/index.php/Main_Page will redirect to http://sitename/wiki/Main_Page. This is my .htaccess

Options All Options -Indexes RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^wiki/index.php(/(.*))?$ /wiki/$2 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^wiki(/(.*))?$ w/index.php?title=$2 [QSA,L]

I notice that some things are broken - images or attachments retrieved through cached search engine results return 404s (well, wiki pages that don't exist). So the search result is http://sitename/wiki/images/e/eb/file.doc which is not there, but changing that to http://sitename/w/images/e/eb/file.doc allows one to retrieve the file correctly. Does that also happen with the generic rules, or is it a bug introduced by the rules I use which provide backwards compatibility? Apapadop 12:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)