https://www.saruman.biz/saruwiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Change_MediaWiki_subpath Change MediaWiki subpath - Revision history 2026-05-13T02:23:38Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.40.0 https://www.saruman.biz/saruwiki/index.php?title=Change_MediaWiki_subpath&diff=2334&oldid=prev Saruman!: Page started 2009-02-07T17:39:37Z <p>Page started</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Change MediaWiki pathname==<br /> <br /> By default, the MediaWiki instance will appear on your site in a subdirectory of your main site, e.g. &#039;&#039;&lt;nowiki&gt;http://www.saruman.biz/mediawiki&lt;/nowiki&gt;&#039;&#039;. This is not always what you want. If you want a different path name, e.g. just &quot;wiki&quot;, or maybe even &quot;foobar&quot;, you&#039;ll have to make two changes:<br /> <br /> * You&#039;ll have to change the &#039;&#039;apache.conf&#039;&#039; file that by default is in &#039;&#039;/etc/mediawiki&#039;&#039; - and that&#039;ll have moved to &#039;&#039;/etc/mediawiki/&lt;instancename&gt;&#039;&#039; if you&#039;ve followed the instructions to creat a [[Create_a_Wikifarm|wikifarm]]. In it, you find an Alias line that you&#039;ll have to change; in the case of a change from &#039;&#039;/mediawiki&#039;&#039; to &#039;&#039;/foobar&#039;&#039; to<br /> Alias /foobar /var/lib/mediawiki<br /> * You&#039;ll also have to change a line in &#039;&#039;LocalSettings.php&#039;&#039; which should be in the same location as &#039;&#039;apache.conf&#039;&#039;. The line defines the path name for all PHP scripts to use, so in the case of a change from &#039;&#039;/mediawiki&#039;&#039; to &#039;&#039;/foobar&#039;&#039;, it becomes<br /> $wgScriptPath = &quot;/foobar&quot;;<br /> <br /> Naturally, you&#039;ll have to restart your Apache2 webserver in order to effectuate the changes.</div> Saruman!