Topic on Manual talk:Short URL/Apache

I've read this, and a wide range of other pages I've found in searches, and still have no clue how to get this ShortURL malarky working. Can somebody help me out? I've installed on localhost, so have root access. But when I try to write these rules and try to restart Apache, I'm met with an error message like below:

AH00526: Syntax error on line 14 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:

Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Where and exactly how am I suppose to set up this stuff?? Am I supposed to put these lines of RewriteEngine and such inside some type of tags??

Hopefully I'm fiddling with the right file at least, but this is the entirety of it.

<VirtualHost *:80>

   # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that

   # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating

   # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName

   # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to

   # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this

   # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.

   # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.

   #ServerName www.example.com

   ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

   DocumentRoot /var/www/html

   # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,

   # error, crit, alert, emerg.

   # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular

   # modules, e.g.

   #LogLevel info ssl:warn

   ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

   CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

   # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are

   # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to

   # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the

   # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only

   # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".

   #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf

</VirtualHost>

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Apparently, you need to install or enable mod_rewrite first, to be able to use that syntax in the apache configuration. That may largely depend on the linux distribution you use. There's an example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/869092/how-to-enable-mod-rewrite-for-apache-2-2

Thank you, that got me a little further. The wiki loads, but the main page looks weird, with the sidebar on the very bottom, and with seemingly no css. If I try http://localhost/wiki/Main_Page, however, there is a Not found error message.

Is there an example somewhere of what these files are supposed to look like when completed and working?

Right now my sites-available .conf holds (with the comments sections removed):

<VirtualHost *:80>

	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot /var/www/html

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


	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

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While the LocalSettings.php file has:

## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;

## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.

## For more information on customizing the URLs

## (like /w/index.php/Page_title to /wiki/Page_title) please see:

## https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL

$wgScriptPath = "";

$wgScriptExtension = ".php";

$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";

## The protocol and server name to use in fully-qualified URLs

$wgServer = "http://localhost";

## The URL path to static resources (images, scripts, etc.)

$wgResourceBasePath = $wgScriptPath;

Some of that was gotten to by using https://shorturls.redwerks.org. Perhaps it is completely messed up, but it's hard to understand what is supposed to be written in the files.

do you still have this problem? I had some hard time getting it to work for myself, maybe I can help.