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ddonche
ddonche

Reputation: 1065

Mediawiki 404 error on Main Page

I had a mediawiki installation on an old website, still have the database and all the info that the wiki contained. I basically did a direct FTP transfer of all the old directories to a new website.

I changed in LocalSettings.php the following to account for my new locations:

$wgScriptPath       = '/forge';
$wgArticlePath = '/forge/$1';
$wgRunJobsAsync = false;
$wgScriptExtension  = ".php";

Really the only thing I had to do was update the script path and the article path to be different from what they were before. All the db login info is the same. Yet I am getting a 404 page not found error when I try to access the site. Something is working properly because when I type in the URL with /forge, it comes up as /forge/Main_Page. Is there some other setting I need to be changing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 724

Answers (1)

MaxSem
MaxSem

Reputation: 3547

  1. Did you configure Apache rewrites for pretty URLs like /forge/Page_title? Doesn't seem so.
  2. Don't point $wgScriptPath and $wgArticlePath to the same directory. While it's theoretically possible to make it work with more rewrites (e.g. making it differ between /forge/Page and /forge/index.php?... and so on), this is a pain in the ass to accomplish and is explicitly not supported by MediaWiki developers.

Upvotes: 2

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