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<h2>Prologue</h2>
<p>When setting up MediaWiki you'll quickly realize that pages use /index.php.<br>
This can be annoying especially for search engines.<br>
To fix this we can do following changes:</p>
<h2>Modifying LocalSettings.php</h2>
<p>We append following code to it:</p>
<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgArticlePath = "/$1"; 
$wgUsePathInfo = true; 
$wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse = false;
</syntaxhighlight>
<h2>Creating .htaccess</h2>
<p>We need to create ".htaccess" on our web root of MediaWiki.</p>
<p>Make sure the apache server has mod_rewrite enabled.</p>
<p>.htaccess:</p>
<syntaxhighlight lang="apacheconf">
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?title=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
</syntaxhighlight>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>After we reload our page, we should land on /Main_Page which makes URLs a lot friendlier.</p>
[[Category:MediaWiki]]