Short URL
A Guide to Using MediaWiki in a Hosted Environment
An instructional website by the developer of mh370wiki.net - a MediaWiki site about Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
URLs
The default page URL for a MediaWiki-based webpage includes an unwanted path /w/index.php?Title= and the goal is to make that 'pretty' or 'short' by substituting the default path with /wiki.
Two articles explain this in more depth:-
- Short URL - covers the common process for rewriting /w/index.php?Title= as /wiki
- Short URL for .wiki Domain - covers the special case of a MediaWiki-based website with a top-level domain .wiki, such as this website. To avoid a URL with .wiki/wiki the .htaccess file and configuration in LocalSettings.php must be different from option 1.
See also .htaccess.
Default URL
The default URL shows the domain name / the installation directory (w) / the file index.php / and the current page Main_Page.
For example, when this website was installed the URL for the Main Page was mw.mh370.wiki/w/index.php/Main_Page.
Short URL
To shorten the URL requires commands in the .htaccess file which match a configuration in the LocalSettings.php file.
Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/wiki/Page_Title_--_.htaccess
The matching configuration in LocalSettings.php is:-
$wgScriptPath = "/w"; $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";
The result is a 'Short URL'.
This will suit most installations of MediaWiki, and is therefore most common - MediaWiki-based websites usually have /wiki/ in the URL.
Related Articles
Short URL for .wiki Domain
If the top-level domain is .wiki even a 'short URL' would look a bit strange with .wiki/wiki, but that can be changed.
Articles which relate to Short URL
Articles which relate to Short URL are included in Category:Short URL.
The CategoryTree Extension enables a listing of relevant sub-categories and pages:-
Links
- Manual:Short URL
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
- Manual:$wgArticlePath
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgArticlePath
- Manual:$wgScriptPath
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgScriptPath
- Manual:$wgActionPaths
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgActionPaths
- Manual:Short URL/wiki/Page Title -- .htaccess
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/wiki/Page_Title_--_.htaccess