Yes, the Main Page is in the database. Assuming you're using Apache, simply enable mod_alias and then put this in your Apache Config:
ScriptAlias /mfqzww /srv/mediawiki/index.php Then change $wgScriptPath. Darren VanBuren ------------------------- Sent from my iPod Try Fedora 10 today. Fire it up. http://fedoraproject.org/ On May 3, 2009, at 0:18, "Theodore D. Sternberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to change $wgScriptPath from the default of "/wiki", but > I'm having > trouble. If I want to change it to, say, "/mfqzww", do I need to > create > a directory called "mfqzww" somewhere? (Didn't think so; there's no > directory > called "wiki".) > > Generally, I don't understand where things are. When I point a > browser to > localhost/wiki, I get redirected to localhost/wiki/index.php/ > Main_Page. I > see I have an index.php in /srv/mediawiki (same as the directory with > LocalSettings.php). But where is Main_Page? There's no such file. > Is > Main_Page just something in a MySql database? > > My goal is quite simple. I'm trying to set up a wiki for myself and a > few friends (we're not all on the same network though), and I'd like > to rely on obscurity to keep the material reasonably invisible to the > rest of the world. Unwanted visitors might guess http://tedsserver.net/wiki > , > but probably not something like http://tedsserver.net/mfqzww. So > that's > all I want to do; change "wiki" to "mfqzww". And unfortunately, just > changing $wgScriptPath doesn't seem to be enough. > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
