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Mxmsj at 08:22, 30 December 2016

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	In my local installation of MediaWiki, the scripts are in <''C:\wamp\www\mediawiki''>.		In my local installation of MediaWiki, the scripts are in <''C:\wamp\www\mediawiki''>.

	I ~~want~~ the short URL to be <''http://localhost/wiki''>, followed by page names.		I am using WampServer 3 (x64), but I imagine that the same principles would work on other versions.

			I wanted the short URL to be <''http://localhost/wiki''>, followed by page names.

			This is what worked for me:

	; In httpd.conf		; In httpd.conf
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	; This .htaccess may not be strictly necessary, but it doesn't hurt.		; This .htaccess may not be strictly necessary, but it doesn't seem to hurt.
	<pre>		<pre>
	## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache		## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

Mxmsj at 08:16, 30 December 2016

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	; In LocalSettings		; In LocalSettings.php
	<pre>		<pre>
	## Base path to the directory containing the wiki;		## Base path to the directory containing the wiki;

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In my local installation of MediaWiki, the scripts are in <''C:\wamp\www\mediawiki''>.

I want the short URL to be <''http://localhost/wiki''>, followed by page names.

; In httpd.conf
<pre>
alias /wiki /wamp/www/mediawiki/index.php

<Directory "/wamp/www/mediwiki">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
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; In LocalSettings
<pre>
## Base path to the directory containing the wiki;
## Cf. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
$wgScriptPath = "/mediawiki";
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";
$wgUsePathInfo = true;
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; This .htaccess may not be strictly necessary, but it doesn't hurt.
<pre>
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

# Enable the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On

# Redirect / to Main Page
RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mediawiki/index.php [L]
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== Links ==
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL MediaWiki Manual, "Short URL."]

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