From ESWStanford
The wiki can now be accessed by the shorter URL http://www.stanford.edu/group/esw/wiki/Main_Page as well as the original http://www.stanford.edu/group/esw/cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page. Implemented by Kristof 15:47, 6 February 2007 (PST)
See mediawiki manual for a brief description of how to do this. Basically there are two files governing this process: .htaccess in our WWW directory and LocalSettings.php in the cgi-bin/mediawiki directory.
.htaccess
The rewrite rule suggested by Mediawiki above works with the Stanford-appropriate parameters and is put in .htacces in the WWW directory:
# first, enable the processing - Unless your ISP has it enabled # already. That might cause weird errors. RewriteEngine On # do the rewrite (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL) RewriteBase /group/esw/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*) cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]
Getting rid of /group/esw/
At some point, we way want to have the URL esw.stanford.edu go directly to www.stanford.edu/group/esw/wiki/Main_Page. A rule similar to the following would have to be put before the RewriteRule above, and after the RewriteEngine.
# uncomment this rule if you want Apache to redirect from www.mysite.com/ to # www.mysite.com/wiki/Main_Page # RewriteRule ^/$ /wiki/Main_Page [R]
LocalSettings.php
LocalSettings.php was edited to add the line
$wgArticlePath = "/group/esw/wiki/$1";
so that links created in the wiki point to the new shorter URL.
