Setup friendly URLs for MediaWiki on Apache2
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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.