I am an absolute beginner at MediaWiki, and just installed an instance through my hosting provider. When I create a new page on the wiki, its URL is always prefaced by index.php?title=. I wonder if this is symptomatic of where I installed MediaWiki, or relevant to a preference I could modify in local_settings? I'd like pages to look likehttp://wiki.stevenarntson.com/Group_1rather thanhttp://wiki.stevenarntson.com/index.php?title=Group_1
URLs of created MediaWiki pages always include index.php?title=
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There's a full guide on how to do this in the MediaWiki manual: Short URL.Essentially, you put your MediaWiki files in an unrelated directory (e.g. /w) then use the following to rewrite to the root:RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-fRewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-dRewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]To tell MediaWiki you've done this, set the following in your LocalSettings.php:$wgScriptPath = /w;$wgArticlePath = /$1;