Topic on Manual talk:Short URL/Apache

doesnt seem to be a problem anymore

On local Windows 10 apache installation %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} on windows creates 403 error.

## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

# Enable the rewrite engine

RewriteEngine On

# Short URL for wiki pages

RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]

# Redirect / to Main Page

RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]

You don't have permission to access /G:/WebSites/pw/w/index.php on this server.

[Sun Nov 18 10:55:39.710853 2018]

[core:error]

[pid 11584:tid 1264] (20023)

The given path was above the root path:

[client 127.0.0.1:20427] AH00127: Cannot map GET / HTTP/1.1 to file

This configuration however works fine:

## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

# Enable the rewrite engine

RewriteEngine On

# Short URL for wiki pages

RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ /w/index.php [L]

# Redirect / to Main Page

RewriteRule ^/*$ /w/index.php [L]

I'm also on windows and didnt have any issues. But Maybe you want to use alias instead, if you still have this problem.