Difference between revisions of "Setup friendly URLs for MediaWiki on Apache2"
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<p>We append following code to it:</p> | <p>We append following code to it:</p> | ||
<syntaxhighlight lang="php" | <syntaxhighlight lang="php"> | ||
$wgArticlePath = "/$1"; | $wgArticlePath = "/$1"; | ||
$wgUsePathInfo = true; | $wgUsePathInfo = true; | ||
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<p>Make sure the apache server has mod_rewrite enabled.</p> | <p>Make sure the apache server has mod_rewrite enabled.</p> | ||
<p>.htaccess:</p> | <p>.htaccess:</p> | ||
<syntaxhighlight lang="apacheconf" | <syntaxhighlight lang="apacheconf"> | ||
RewriteEngine On | RewriteEngine On | ||
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f | RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f | ||
Latest revision as of 22:18, 27 February 2021
Prologue
When setting up MediaWiki you'll quickly realize that pages use /index.php.
This can be annoying especially for search engines.
To fix this we can do following changes:
Modifying LocalSettings.php
We append following code to it:
$wgArticlePath = "/$1";
$wgUsePathInfo = true;
$wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse = false;
Creating .htaccess
We need to create ".htaccess" on our web root of MediaWiki.
Make sure the apache server has mod_rewrite enabled.
.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?title=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
Conclusion
After we reload our page, we should land on /Main_Page which makes URLs a lot friendlier.