Thread:Project:Support desk/Short URLs and default page addresses

When I migrate an existing MW wiki to a new virtual distributed server, the default page addresses change and I don't understand how to change them back.

According to the Manual:Short URL page:

MediaWiki's default page addresses looks like these examples:

http://example.org/w/index.php/Page_title (recent versions of MediaWiki, without CGI support) http://example.org/w/index.php?title=Page_title (recent versions of MediaWiki, with CGI support)

The first version is the one I've had in place and used for several years. I'm moving from a GoDaddy VDS running CentOS 5 and Plesk 9.5.3 to a GoDaddy VDS running CentOS 6 and Plesk 11. I have always had CGI support turned on for the web server. The same wiki on the newer server only recognizes the index.php?title= page names.

My MW is at 1.15. I am not yet able to upgrade it because of a different problem (MediaWiki_v1.19.1_installation:_Compilation_failed:_support_for_\P,_\p,_and_\X_has_not_been_compiled). Also, it seems safer to change one thing at a time....

I'm probably missing something obvious, but I don't know whether I should be looking to something in the httpd server configuration or the MW configuration to make the change.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide...

Michael Greis