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=== Subdomain with no Subdirectory in Article URL using Lighttpd ===

{{Wiki-in-docroot}}

To put MediaWiki in a root directory with the Lighttpd webserver, use the following rule (assuming mod_rewrite is loaded and your wiki is installed into /w relative to your document-root):

==In [[Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php]]==

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
$wgScriptPath = '/w';        # Path to the actual files. This should already be there
$wgArticlePath = '/$1';  # Virtual path. This directory MUST be different from the one used in $wgScriptPath
$wgUsePathInfo = false; # To get special links like history or edit work
</syntaxhighlight>

==In your lighttpd.conf==

 url.rewrite-once = (
    "(^/[^:]*[\./].*)" => "$1",
    "^/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))?" => "/w/index.php?title=$1&$2",
 )

If you want to host this on a seperate domain (which is very likely for a wiki in the root-dir) do:

 $HTTP["host"] == "wiki.example.com" {
    server.document-root = "/path/to/webroot"
    url.rewrite-once = (
        "(^/[^:]*[\./].*)" => "$1",
        "^/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))?" => "/w/index.php?title=$1&$2",
    )
 }

If you want to allow ampersands in titles too (or any other character that might be considered an argument delimiter in the query string) you can make a more complicated rule using mod_magnet. For more information, see lighttpd's documentation about mod_magnet on their website.

== See also ==
* [[Manual:Installing MediaWiki with Lighttpd]]
* [[Manual:Short URL/wiki/Page title -- Lighttpd rewrite--root access]]