Hi, in the end I did a reinstall.
I am still getting This web page is not available. The web page at *http://www.thesii.org/wiki/w/index.php/Main_Page* might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Still confused! (There is no active .htaccess file and http://www.thesii.org/wiki/w/api.php works fine) Regards, Phill. On 31 January 2012 22:05, Tom Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's fine as is but the standard way is the have mediawiki live in > > subdir of the docroot like /w/ and then some other path (like /wiki/) > > is where the pretty (aka short) URLs live. > > > > Yes, heed Jeremy's advice, drop it in wiki/w/ which will allow for > > > > wiki.thesii.org/w/index.php to work, then play with the rewrite. The > manual is very specific > about not using the directory /w. It will work, but can be problematic > with some functions. > > > > The subdomain deffinately exists! > > > > Yes, it exists. > > > > Yes it does, wiki.thesii.org/api.php is valid, but..see below. > > > > As to what .htaccess would be complaining at, I'm at a loss. DNS has an > > entry for wiki.thesii.org (else we would get the header site), apache > tells > > it where it is installed and the programme files are all in the correct > > place? > > > > Something is redirecting / and /index.php and other paths to > > /index.php/Main_Page. That doesn't happen out of the box and you > > should figure out what it is and disable it. First get MediaWiki > > working at all and then worry about Short URLs. See > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL when you're ready for > > it. > > > > -Jeremy > > AMEN! > > > > A call to wiki.thesii.org is returning a 301 moved permanently redirect. > Where are you > redirecting too?? This is why I said rename htaccess to turn it off and > see if it will work > without trying to rewrite the URLs. > > > > > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > 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
