Hi Everybody,
I have been trying to use the pre-packaged installs for mediawiki on my
new
ubuntu server and I wanted to abstract away my URL and
make it something
more along the lines of /something_descriptive/page rather than
/mediawiki/page. In my previous uses of mediawiki I could do this with a
simple alias; however, the new packages for lucid do not seem to play well
with this. I installed the lamp-server^ and mediawiki packages via apt-get
and have standard configurations. The server without modifiction works
fine.
But if I change the Alias statement in
/etc/mediawiki/apache.conf it
breaks
terribly. For some reason, adding a second Alias
statement at the end of
my
/etc/apcahe2/apache.conf file will work; however, once
the page loads the
displayed URL is still the old style, that is
"/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page". I suspect the spaghetti mess of symbolic
links in this package is making something go awry. I have tried modifying
the following settings in /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php:
$wqArticlePath
$wgScriptPath
$wgUsePathInfo
The results of various modifications of these have either been a seemingly
working redirect from apache to a blank page with now source. Or a
redirect
loop warning. If anybody could help me get these URLs
cleaned up I would
really appreciate it. Also, I have been trying to find this for some time,
but is there any place where the ubuntu packages are ACTUALLY
documented?
They rarely follow the standard configuration of what they contain
(apache,
mysql, etc) and the absurd number of symbolic links in
many of them makes
their folder structure almost impossible to navigate around and determine
which files correspond to the original configuration files of the
software.
Some package specific documentation resources would
really help.
Thanks guys.
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[Michael Hutchinson]
Hello,
It may have already been suggested, but about the best way to get MediaWiki
on Debian is to manually install it from the source package. There's more
than just one reason to do this, however. Not only do you get to choose the
URL / directory structure that you want, but you also get a much later
version of MediaWiki. Currently Debian 5 will pull in version 1.12 of
MediaWiki, where the current version is 1.15.4.
The Ubuntu 10 guide should work quite well for Debian, though I didn't
bother, I just met the dependencies and installed.
Cheers,
Michael.