Actually I wonder if I spoke too soon. When I created the database for MediaWiki in MySQL I didn't specify anything for the "Collation" drop down because I really had no idea what to go in there, I just crossed my fingers.

Now when I look at the database tables it seems to have picked

Have I set myself up for future problems?

Regards,

Matt

Ah Hah!!!
Now I see another MediaWikii up. Congrats!!!
Where is your Wiki site?

Last edited by ngungo (2005-01-17 18:09:11)

Ryan Schwartz shown just how great this place is once again, by working out clean urls for mediawiki in response to a support ticket. I really appreciate this level of support, Ryan encouraged me to post his reply on the forums, so that it can help everyone else.

RyanSwartz wrote:

I looked at Matt's .htaccess from http://codex.wordpress.org/ and worked it out from there.

Here's your public_html/wiki/.htaccess:

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

And here's the one change I made in your LocalSettings.php:

1. If using PHP as a CGI module, use the ugly URLs
   $wgArticlePath = "$wgScriptPath/$1";

   #$wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1";

   And now all of the non-hardcoded index.php URLs work fine

However you still need to edit the various templates to remove the hardcoded index.php urls in the shipping mediawiki. Note this is with a version of 1.4b6

Lastly in this wiki page, brion, who knows all in terms of mediawiki, recommends having a separate code directory w and wiki directory to make things clearer, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rewrite_rules

I hope that this helps people with mediawiki and clean urls.
I'll update this post with the details of what to delete to make mediawiki templates clean too, ping me if I haven't done this by end of March
cheers
Gavin

Last edited by gavinbell (2005-03-10 23:55:23)

I'm gonna log my steps right here in doing a clean install of MediaWiki 1.4.5 on TxD with clean URL support, to mydomain.tld/wiki/. The TxD forums posts on this subject and MediaWiki pages related to clean URLs are a bit jumbled, and haven't worked out for me.

1. Database created through phpMyAdmin
2. Files uploaded to mydomain.tld/wiki/
3. Browsing to mydomain.tld/wiki/
4. Following the link to mydomain.tld/wiki/config/index.php
5. All enviromental conditions pass, except Turck MMCache
6. Entering configuration parameters, accepting defaults where available
7. Success; following link to mydomain.tld/wiki/index.php
8. Moving mydomain.tld/config/LocalSettings.php to parent directory; deleting /config directory
9. Reloading main page; MediaWiki now running with querystring URLs
10. Creating user account, user page created, redirected to Main Page
11. Applying Ryan's suggested .htaccess and LocalSettings.php changes, as related above by Gavin:

.htaccess

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

LocalSettings.php

$wgArticlePath = "$wgScriptPath/$1";

    
#$wgArticlePath = "$wgScript?title=$1";

12. Reloading Main Page with querystring URL: success
13. Browsing to mydomain.tld/wiki/: success, clean URL in address bar
14. Editing user page and About page: success
15. Setting Preferences (a "Special" page): success

Well, I suppose the act of tracing my steps aloud squared everything away, 'cuz I've not had the problems I did on my first install. Now it's on to templating, where things will surely get funky. Gavin, what's meant by this?

However you still need to edit the various templates to remove the hardcoded index.php urls in the shipping mediawiki. Note this is with a version of 1.4b6

There's no instance of `index.php` in the default MonoBook.php skin, for instance.

LQ

Last edited by Lou Quillio (2005-06-19 18:47:28)

The difference was that I had an .htaccess upstream in the vhosted domain containing this:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

AddType application/x-httpd-fastphp4 .php

Action application/x-httpd-fastphp4 /php-fastcgi/php4-fcgi

The second installation didn't know about php-fastcgi. This is evidently a prerequisite of successful MediaWiki installation on TxD. I doubt I had to force php4, but it's working now so I'll leave it alone.

LQ

Watch out for spammers with mediawiki. I got hammered, and I've had to put my wiki into full lockdown. :-(