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I'm trying to setup a wiki to use short urls with the following directory structure:

Apache DocumentRoot: /var/www/html

Mediawiki stuff is in /var/www/wiki, this includes index.php, extensions, images, etc.

I can get short URLS to semi-work using the following set up:

mediawiki.conf:

Alias /wiki/skins /usr/share/mediawiki/skins

Alias /wiki /var/www/wiki

<Directory "/var/www/wiki">

  LogLevel trace8

  SetEnv MW_INSTALL_PATH "/var/www/wiki"

  AllowOverride All

  Require all granted

  Options FollowSymLinks

  RewriteEngine On

  # This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS

  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]

  RewriteRule ^/*$ index.php [L,QSA]

</Directory>

In LocalSettings.php I added:

$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";

Now all links in the wiki omit the index.php?title= part and the rewrite rules seem to work. But the wiki only shows the bare html now, if that makes sense. The skin and the wiki logo are not being used now.

I've also tried using

$wgUsePathInfo = true;

but that doesn't change the outcome.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

I should withdraw this question because I see that mediawiki doesn't recommend installing a wiki like this. Manual:Short URL#No Skins says it's a "beginner's mistake". Now I'm trying it again putting the mediawiki install into the /w directory.