Patricia Barden wrote: > Hello all: > > I have a question about some basic configuration settings in > LocalSettings.php that I'm hoping someone can help me with. > > I have an established wiki that was originally set up using MediaWiki > 1.4.x (I think). I just upgraded to 1.15.x. > > Is there any downside to having the URL set up as > http://www.mywiki.com/index.php > versus the recommended way; i.e., http://www.mywiki.com/wiki/index.php? > > Is there any way to switch over to the recommended way without > changing the URL that is shown to the public and search engines? > Perhaps, some way to rewrite the URL in the background? > > Thanks in advance for your help, > > Patricia
Hello Patricia No, there's no downside. http://www.mywiki.com/index.php is a stable uri scheme. http://www.mywiki.com/wiki/index.php is not "recommended" in any particular way (you can use that equally well if you wish, though). The problem with http://www.mywiki.com/index.php?title=MyWiki is that people find those titles ugly. There are two common ways to prettify them: *http://www.mywiki.com/index.php/ArticleTitle (automatic with path info support) *http://www.mywiki.com/wiki/ArticleTitle (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL for instructions) Note that having /wiki/ArticleTitle does *not* involve moving index.php to a folder called wiki. index.php must be at a different path. /wiki/ would be a virtual folder and use web server magic to pass it to php. Some people want to have the articles at http://www.mywiki.com/ArticleTitle That *does* give problems. Having index.php at the root doesn't. Since it's an established path, I wouldn't move the wiki root. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
