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==Navigation==<br />
{{web software|MediaWiki}}: [[MediaWiki customization|customization]]: [[shortening MediaWiki URLs]]{{sidebar|__TOC__}}<br />
==Overview==<br />
The most reliable method seems to be the mod_rewrite, which requires access to either httpd.conf or requires particular handling options for .htaccess to be switched on (fortunately, they usually seem to be). Failing that, another method is:<br />
* [[using error handlers to tidy MediaWiki URLs]]<br />
<br />
Some additional methods are documented in the [[#links]], below.<br />
==Using mod_rewrite==<br />
This is probably documented elsewhere, but this is what actually worked on a shared server without root access or a shell.<br />
<br />
First, the .htaccess file needs to include:<br />
{{quoteon}}<br />
:&lt;IfModule [[mod_rewrite]].c&gt;<br />
::RewriteEngine on<br />
::<br />
::RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
::RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
::RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]<br />
:&lt;/IfModule&gt;<br />
{{quoteoff}}<br />
<br />
Second, modify LocalSettings.php:<br />
:$wgScriptPath = '';<br />
:wgArticlePath = $wgScriptPath.'/$1';<br />
<br />
This assumes MediaWiki is installed in the root of the www pages, e.g. <nowiki>http://yourdomain.com/Main_Page</nowiki> is the wiki's main page; if you have it in a subfolder, e.g. <nowiki>http://yourdomain.com/wiki/Main_Page</nowiki>, then:<br />
<br />
:$wgScriptPath = '/wiki';<br />
<br />
Then do ?action=purge on any page to test it. Internal links on existing pages will convert to the new URLs any time they are saved or purged.<br />
<br />
The above seems to work for everything (including editing) without breaking old-style URLs.<br />
<br />
This method is also documented here, with some minor changes: http://wiki.welldesignedurls.org/Clean_Urls_for_MediaWiki<br />
<br />
Wish list:<br />
* proper handling of page named [[.htaccess]] (click on that for a demonstration of the problem)<br />
* ability to have the wiki installed in a subdirectory while still making it appear to be in the domain's root folder<br />
<br />
==Comments==<br />
Please feel free to post comments here or on the Talk page if you try any of these procedures.<br />
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6/23/2007: I used your .htaccess and then set ''$wgArticlePath = "$wgScriptPath/$1";''. This way the forwarding works regardless of what directory the wiki is located in. In my case it was ''/wiki''. --Jordan Mendler ({{email|jmendler|ucla|edu}})<br />
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12/02/2007: Method worked fine, using Jordan Mendler's modification to allow for my ''/wiki'' subdirectory. You should post this on mediawiki's [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL Manual:Short URL] page, as they do not have this solution listed and it seems simpler and possibly less bug-prone then other methods. --Adam Burley (AKA Bilby) (bilbyATdigitalcaveDOTorg)<br />
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2007-12-02 MW 1.11 seems to do something which breaks log-ins using the above method. I solved this once, but I'm not sure which specific change made the difference. Here's part of the LocalSettings from a MW 1.11 installation where logins work fine:<br />
<php><br />
## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;<br />
## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.<br />
$wgScriptPath = "";<br />
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";<br />
<br />
# standard Woozle MW customizations<br />
$wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php";<br />
$wgArticlePath = "/$1";<br />
$wgUsePathInfo = false;<br />
</php><br />
<br />
==Links==<br />
* <s>[[metawikipedia:Eliminating index.php from the url|Eliminating index.php from the url]]</s> moved/consolidated<br />
* [[mwsite:Manual:Short URL|Manual:Short URL]]<br />
* [http://wiki.welldesignedurls.org/Clean_Urls_for_MediaWiki Clean URLs for MediaWiki]</div>LiaceLlial