Rewrite in Mediawiki, remove index.php, .htaccess

Question

I've just installed Mediawiki on Apache and I want the URL should be:

localhost/Main_Page/
localhost/Special:Recent_Changes
...

instead of:

localhost/index.php/Main_Page/
localhost/index.php/Special:Recent_Changes

I've tried many times and in many ways but it still doesn't work. Any suggest for a "exactly" what to do, step by step. Mediawiki docs didn't talk about .htaccess. It had only Nginx and lighttpd.

Answer 1

You can have clean URLs with the following step.

Install the wiki into http://localhost/w and NOT into http://localhost/wiki then Modify the following in LocalSettings.php after you have set it up:

$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";

In the ROOT directory place the following .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on

## uncomment this rule if you want to redirect to http://localhost/wiki/Main_Page
# RewriteRule ^/$ /wiki/Main_Page [R]

## do the rewrite
RewriteRule ^wiki/?(.*)$ /w/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

Answer 2

Try the following code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ /mediawiki/index.php?title=$1&actions=$2 [L]

Answer 3

This MediaWiki documentation does talk about .htaccess.