Manual:Short URL/wiki.example.com/Page title--Subdomain with no Subdirectory in Article URL

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[edit] Subdomain

[edit] Subdomain with no Subdirectory in Article URL

If you want to use something like http://wiki.example.com/Article_Title, make the following changes to .htaccess and LocalSettings.php after installing. These instructions assume MediaWiki is installed to wiki/ (under subdomain), the subdomain is only for the wiki, and that the main page is Main_Page. .htaccess lines are pretty much exactly what the owner of http://www.muscatelli.info/ posted on the discussion page.

This method also would work for main-domains (like www.example.com/Article_Title).

[edit] .htaccess

The first step is to make sure that requests for /Article_Title get interpreted correctly. Make sure your .htaccess is Allowed to Override "FileInfo" and the +FollowSymLinks Option is on. The following lines should be added to .htaccess in the root of the wiki.example.com domain:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

[edit] LocalSettings.php

Now that URLs like http://wiki.example.com/Article_Title work, all that remains is to tell MediaWiki to use those URLs. This is done by defining $wgArticlePath in LocalSettings.php. Here's an example, defined just after $wgScriptPath:

$wgScriptPath       = "/wiki";
$wgArticlePath      = "/$1";
$wgUsePathInfo = false;

[edit] Localization

Note, if you setup not an english version, you must change (for .htaccess) rewrite rule according name of Title Page in your language. Following sample is for russian:

RewriteEngine On
# anything that contains a dot without a colon should be left alone
RewriteRule ^[^:]*\. - [L]
# anything that contains a slash without a colon should be left alone
RewriteRule ^[^:]*\/ - [L]
# redirect to main page
RewriteRule ^/*$ /wiki/index.php?title=Заглавная_страница [L,QSA]
# anything else is to be treated as a title
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

note russian text Заглавная_страница is a Windows-1251 encoded.