Setup friendly URLs for MediaWiki on Apache2

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:

1 $wgArticlePath = "/$1"; 
2 $wgUsePathInfo = true; 
3 $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:

1 RewriteEngine On
2 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
3 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
4 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.