On Jun 2, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Tom Hutchison <t...@hutch4.us> wrote: > Did you account for /images or /skins and a whole lot of other things in your > .htaccess file? Always a bad idea to put the install in the root.
You mean e.g. apache’s DocumentRoot or ServerRoot? I’ve been in the habit of having mediawiki files go into a subdirectory based on (for example) DocumentRoot/wiki/mediawiki-1.22.7. and then Alias it as DocumentRoot/wiki . > This is only the start of what you need to think of. Robots.txt, google > verification file, /extensions which store files such as processed widgets. > Search engines will have their way with your wiki. Indexing edit pages and > revision pages unless you create special rules not just Disallow /w. It will > also make it harder to upgrade which is a mute discussion at this point. > Not saying root install isn't possible. Just a whole lot of things to > consider. To start: Check the path for /images and a file. If your rewrite > doesn't ignore the /images directory you'd 404 the call to it in a page. > Simple test, call the hard url to an image. /images/1/a/example.png. If it > takes you to the wiki and says create a page your rewrite is not excluding > the directory and seeing it as a page. thank you for the advice, I’ll look at that this evening. -- Rob Lingelbach http://rob.colorist.org http://colorist.org r...@colorist.org _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
