[Mediawiki-l] Can't see mediawiki site; see folder content listing instead.

Rob Church robchur at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 02:09:49 UTC 2006


On 09/04/06, Joseph Brick <jbrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> Trying to set up a local mediawiki server on my Mac (osx 10.4.4).
> Installed mediawiki version 1.6.2  to
> Library/WebServer/Documents/mediawiki/
>
> Trying to follow this portion of the install instructions with no luck:
>
> "Hop into your browser and surf into the wiki directory.
> It'll direct you into the config script."
>
> So I go to http://127.0.0.1/mediawiki/ in my browser, but rather than
> being presented with a web page (which I assume would guide me through
> setup), I simply see the file listing of that folder.

Make sure Apache knows how to handle .php files, and that it knows
index.php is a valid index file for directories. See httpd.conf and
the documentation for pointers.


Rob Church



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