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1. taglad
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   I'm tearing my hair out and quickly going bald trying to solve this problem.

   I want to install mediawiki as a subdirectory under my wordpress install with short urls.

   viz http://www.example.com <- wordpress here, top level

   http://www.example.com/wiki/ <- mediawiki here

   mediawiki pages are re-written so that they are short

   http://www.example.com/wiki/mypage

   I've tried many combinations of editing localsettings.php in mediawiki directory, and .htaccess in wordpress directory, and .htaccess in mediawiki directory with no joy.

   I can achieve what I want by running mediawiki from the top of a domain or sub-domain viz

   my.example.com/mypage <- mediawiki pages rewritten to short url here

   help appreciated. i don't have many strand of hair left ! :-)

2. jagwire
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   I had the same problem. Here's what I did that worked.

   Worpress is installed at the top level )of the site http://www.example.com. MediaWiki is (and must be) installed at http://www.example.com/w/. Pages are rewritten in MediaWiki to look like http://www.example.com/wiki/mypage.

   .htaccess looks like this

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   # BEGIN MediaWiki
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^wiki/(images|skins|fckeditor)/ - [PT,L,QSA]
   RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)$ w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]
   RewriteRule ^wiki/*$ wiki/ [PT,L,QSA]
   RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*:.*)$ w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]
   RewriteRule ^wiki/(.+)$ w/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]
   # END MediaWiki
   </IfModule>
   
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   # BEGIN WordPress
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   # END WordPress
   </IfModule>

   LocalSettings.php has the following set:

   $wgScriptPath	    = "/w";
   $wgArticlePath      = "/wiki/$1";

   I think the trick is to have have MediaWiki .htaccess rules first then the WordPress rules. I'm sure the .htaccess file is ugly but it works and I haven't had a chance to go back and rework it. There are a few urls that still show funny but the work and always redirect back to the friendly urls.

   I hope you hairs grows back.

3. eastonellsworth
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Thanks jagwire - you saved my hair too. :) Great solution.

4. RyuMaou
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   What version of MediaWiki are you using? Were you able to integrate it into the blog security, too? How about linking back and forth?

   This looks like a great way to do it and I'd LOVE to see a tutorial somewhere!

5. wmburke
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Thank you for this solution. I was struggling with integrating the two .htaccess necessities as well.

6. GATEKeeper
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   HUGE help - thanks!

7. techguy
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Thanks. This worked like a charm for me and saved me having to figure it out myself.

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