Manual:Wiki in site root directory

It is possible to use the root directory of a domain as the wiki directory and have the URLs look like this: "example.com/Page_title", but it is NOT recommended.

Guides
See the manual on short URLs.

Considerations

 * Potential need for special rules.
 * You might need special rules for "robots.txt" or "favicon.ico", also for all wiki support files like skin images, extensions that load content from the "/extensions/" folder (such as CSS, JS, or images), and root scripts like api.php, thumb.php, and image_auth.php. This is all compatible with having your wiki in your website's root directory.
 * On the other hand, you might not. For instance the following in .htaccess on an Apache server seems to allow existing files and directories to be accessed as normal:




 * Periodically bugs pop up with various configurations and root URLs because MediaWiki was not designed for them. These are being tracked in ; currently these are the outstanding issues:
 * , a root action path completely overrides.
 * , root article paths allow bypassing of nofollow and attacks on Special:Random.
 * , Super-short URLs are formed incorrectly for articles with titles starting with a slash.
 * Any scheme which does this is not supported by the MediaWiki developers. Use the configuration used by Wikipedia if you want to be on the safe side.