Manual:Wiki in site root directory
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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[edit]
See the manual on short URLs.
Considerations[edit]
- 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:
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]
- Periodically bugs pop up with various configurations and root URLs because MediaWiki was not designed for them. These are being tracked in task T34620; currently these are the outstanding issues:
- task T34621, a root action path completely overrides $wgActionPaths.
- task T40048, root article paths allow bypassing of nofollow and attacks on Special:Random.
- task T113160, 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.