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[tut]

Hi,

I try to change url in mediawiki site, so I can see wiki instead index.php in link. I am not able to do that.

Can you help me with that?

more info there Manual : Short URL

[Alexander]

Hello tut,

Have you decided on a format you wish your wiki addresses to be in? I will assume you wish for /wiki/page_title, however there are many other options. The proper steps are located here: Manual:Short URL/wiki/Page title -- no root access - MediaWiki

The first step will be to locate LocalSettings.php , and modify the following parameters:

$wgScriptPath = "/w";
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; 
$wgScriptPath! $wgLogo = "$wgScriptPath/wiki_logo.png";

The first being the location of the wiki folder, second being the wiki structure ($1 captures text, i.e. page_title) and the third being the location of your custom wiki logo.

If your host allows .htaccess files, you will then need to create a file named ".htaccess" (no quotes) and place the following contents within:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ /w/index.php [PT,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^/*$ /w/index.php [L,QSA]

(assuming wiki is the structure, /w/ is where your actual Wikimedia files are located)

This should allow you to access pages by name rather than page as long as your structure matches the rules in the configuration.

Try to see if this helps you, and follow the available resources Wikimedia provides. If not, report back what you have done (and information on the structure and current configuration files) and we can find out the problem from there.

Alexander.

[tut]

Okay, thank you Alexander. It works.:) Now I need to have multiple wikis and every each of them shall sharing its commons resources.

examples

en.wiki1.mysite.com/wiki/article

es.wiki1.mysite.com/wiki/article


I found some solutions and I tried that

WikiHelp - MyCambrian
Manual:Wiki family - MediaWiki

or this extension

but I am unable to do it cause my skills aren t good enough. I see always some error or don t understand the manual.

Pls help.

[Alexander]

I am afraid I am not well acquainted with the Wikimedia platform or software.

Try to perform every step one at a time, after a brief look it seems to give you what you need. If you have any specific troubles always ask.

There may be some Wikimedia specific forums for installation advice, or some well written tutorials on the web for multi-Wiki setup.