Changing entry point URLs

[mononym]

Hi. I would like to remove the /wiki/ in my site's URL: https:example.com/wiki/some_page -> https://example.com/some_page

I added two variables in app/data/LocalSettings.php:

$wgArticlePath = '/$1';
$wgScriptPath = '/';

After a restart, the https:example.com landing page loads but without any CSS style. All other pages behind /wiki/ did not "move" and do not exist at the new URLs.

On the mediawiki one step in the process is "Rename the installation directory of MediaWiki on your server from /wiki to /w [i.e. / in my case]." How can I do that ?

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EDIT: with $wgScriptPath = ''; the stylesheet is loaded.

[james]

Hello @mononym
I have investigated this issue and found the following.

According to my understanding after reading the documentation the LocalSettings.php should include the following:

# Set the script path to root
$wgScriptPath = "";

# Set the article path for pretty URLs
$wgArticlePath = "/$1";

# If you're using a different entry point than index.php
$wgScript = "/index.php";

# For resource loading
$wgResourceBasePath = $wgScriptPath;

Just for good measure I also cleared the Main Page cache with:

php maintenance/run.php purgePage <<< "Main Page"

But sadly, this did also not work.
So the only thing now breaking it could be the apache2 config and there it is.

By default (not editable) - https://git.cloudron.io/packages/mediawiki-app/-/blob/master/apache/mediawiki.conf?ref_type=heads:

ServerName %{HTTP_HOST}

<VirtualHost *:8000>
    DocumentRoot /app/code

    LogFormat "%{X-Forwarded-For}i %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" proxy
    CustomLog "|/bin/cat" proxy
    ErrorLog "|/bin/cat"

    # https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Security
    php_flag register_globals off

    ## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]
    RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]

    <Directory /app/code>
        Options +FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    # some directories must be protected
    # images/ still has to be accessible since mw references it directly
    <Directory /app/code/images>
        Options -FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        <IfModule mod_php7.c>
            php_admin_flag engine off
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I put the app into recovery mode and edited the Apache2 site file and changed the rewrite to the following:

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/rest\.php
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]

and started the app with /app/pkg/start.sh and got a working MediaWiki under sub.DOMAIN.tld/Main_Page.

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To make this usable for you and everyone else, an app update would be needed where users, like you, could also upload a custom Apache2 site setting file that will be included to overwrite the default one.

I am converting / hijacking this topic into a feature request.