{"id":624,"date":"2014-10-05T21:14:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abhinav.spsdarj.org\/?p=624"},"modified":"2016-03-06T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T06:49:20","slug":"guide-to-setting-up-mediawiki-on-hostgator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhinavkr.com\/musings\/2014\/10\/guide-to-setting-up-mediawiki-on-hostgator\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to setting up mediawiki on Hostgator"},"content":{"rendered":"

It isn’t all that easy to create a good mediawiki site with URL rewrite (you know… hide the “index.php<\/em>” part and make it all pretty looking like “YourDomain.ext<\/em>\/wiki\/<\/em>“), So here I put down a step by step method of going through this cumbersome process.<\/p>\n

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  1. QuickInstall mediawiki in a directory in your public_html folder. Say, in folder “wiki<\/em>“. (Now, your mediawiki installation is in “YourDomain.ext\/wiki\/<\/em>” but yet, when you go to YourDomain.ext<\/em>, you aren’t redirected to anywhere (like going to en.wikipedia.org<\/a> redirects you to en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/<\/em>). So now,<\/li>\n
  2. Add this to the .htaccess<\/em> file in public_html<\/em> to redirect your root folder link to the subfolder in which wiki is installed. (So now, when you enter YourDomain.ext<\/em>, it takes you to YourDomain.ext\/wiki<\/em>)\n
    RewriteEngine On\r\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?YourDomain.ext$\r\nRewriteRule ^(\/)?$ wiki [L]<\/pre>\n
    The only change you need to make is to change \u201cYourDomain.ext<\/em>\u201d to your domain and its extension. This will then redirect everything from the domain to the folder \/wiki<\/em> at that domain. If you want to change that folder just edit the \u201cwiki<\/em>\u201d part.<\/li>\n
  3. Now, I’ll give you a general explanation of how this next step works.\u00a0Add this to the .htaccess<\/em> in public_html\u00a0<\/em>following what you’ve already entered before.\n
    RewriteBase \/music\r\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f\r\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d\r\nRewriteRule ^wiki\/(.*)$ .\/wiki\/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<\/pre>\n
    ‘RewriteBase<\/strong>‘ defines where the rewrite will start. The example above will match after ‘YourDomain.ext\/music<\/em>‘. If you leave it at just a “\/” (i.e. YourDomain.ext\/)<\/em>, then rewrite starts after the .ext<\/em> itself. That’s what you probably want. Remove the “music<\/em>“\u00a0<\/em>from the code above.
    \n‘RewriteCond<\/strong>‘ makes sure that links to files (like stylesheets or images) are not rewritten, which can break MediaWiki’s formatting in some cases.
    \n‘RewriteRule<\/strong>‘ defines the rewrite. In the example above, ‘^wiki\/(.*)<\/em>‘ will invisibly load ‘wiki\/index.php?title=$1<\/em>‘, and\u00a0the page name (‘$1<\/em>‘) will replace everything after ‘wiki\/<\/em>‘\u00a0.<\/li>\n
  4. Add or edit the following setting in LocalSettings.php<\/em>. This causes the HTML generated by MediaWiki to refer to “\/wiki\/Articlename<\/em>” instead of the default.
    \n$wgScriptPath = \"\/music\/wiki\"; #based on requirement, you can keep it as $wgScriptPath = \"\/wiki\";<\/span>
    \n$wgArticlePath = \"$wgScriptPath\/$1\";<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Conclusion:<\/h3>\n
    So, At the end of working on all of this, summary goes:<\/p>\n
    Goes into public_html\u00a0.htaccess<\/em><\/h5>\n
    RewriteEngine On\r\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?YourDomain.ext$\r\nRewriteRule ^(\/)?$ wiki [L]\r\n\r\nRewriteBase \/\r\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f\r\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d\r\nRewriteRule ^wiki\/(.*)$ .\/wiki\/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]<\/pre>\n
    Goes to localsetting<\/em><\/h5>\n
    $wgScriptPath = \"\/wiki\";\r\n$wgArticlePath = \"$wgScriptPath\/$1\";<\/pre>\n
    Disclaimer:<\/h6>\n
    This article is not associated directly with the creators of mediawiki.
    \nTested on Hostgator servers. Do check out\u00a0Mediawiki’s manual on Short URLs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    It isn’t all that easy to create a good mediawiki site with URL rewrite (you know… hide the “index.php” part and make it all pretty looking like “YourDomain.ext\/wiki\/“), So here I put down a step by step method of going through this cumbersome process. QuickInstall mediawiki in a directory in your public_html folder. 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