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Sir Fry
Sir Fry

Reputation: 3

How to direct my index to MediaWiki index.php

I'm new to all of this honestly, I'm not even sure if i'm asking the question correctly. Basically I have a LAMP server setup to run mediawiki. I can get to by typing localhost/Wiki but I'd to only have to use localhost and it take me to the Main page of the wiki. Right now when I type it I just get a file browser (I removed the default apache2 index.html from /var/www/html. Another note to add is my Wiki index.php is under /var/www/html/Wiki/index.php. Let me know if this question is understandable as I am new.

Thanks for your time!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 769

Answers (2)

DanielMK
DanielMK

Reputation: 601

The right way to achieve this, is to install mediawiki on /var/www/html

But here is a quick and dirty way do redirect.

Create the file /var/www/html/index.html with the following lines:

<html><head><title>redirect</title>
<META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://localhost/Wiki">
</head><body></body></html>

So, when you go to http://localhost you will be redirected to http://localhost/Wiki

Upvotes: 1

Tgr
Tgr

Reputation: 28210

You need to set up URL rewriting (which is a way to tell the webserver how to translate the URL into a file system path - the default is something like <URL path> -> /var/www/html/<URL path> but you can do almost anything with the right configuration). There is a MediaWiki URL rewriting guide but if your wiki is accessible from the internet it's easier to use the Redwerks short URL builder.

Upvotes: 0

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