1.17 was EOL a long time ago. There's no proper way to make an ancient version of a piece of software that was made for a newer version of the software.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] On 2015-08-26 8:49 PM, James wrote: > Thanks Daniel for your prompt response! > > Currently, I am using Mediawiki version 1.17. > > I tried to add $wgEnableCanonicalServerLink > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableCanonicalServerLink> = > true; to LocalSettings.php. > When I add <link rel="canonical"> on Main Page, the code will visible. > > I tried CanonURL extension, but it requires Mediawiki version 1.20. > > Is there proper way to accept rel=canonical on version 1.17 of Mediawiki? > > Thanks. > James > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Daniel Friesen > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 2015-08-26 7:05 PM, James wrote: > > When I access wiki.old-domain.net <http://wiki.old-domain.net> > or .org, it will redirect me to > > http://wiki.domain.co/Main_Page. > > Now, I want to eliminate "/Main_Page" and make it single URL > > http://wiki.domain.co only. > MediaWiki does not support this. > > > The reason behind all of this is due to errors getting when > changing of > > address on Google search console which G wants to make it > wiki.domain.co <http://wiki.domain.co> > > only and not having /Main_Page. > > > > Any advise and help would be much appreciated. > MediaWiki should be setting rel=canonical for the main page, so there > should be no indexing issues with systems that want to strip the > /Main_Page from the url, both will end up indexing/providing > pagerank to > the same url. > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) > [http://danielfriesen.name/] > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
