How to remove index.php from the URL of MediaWiki?

Question

I used this tool http://shorturls.redwerks.org/ to rewrite a short url for MediaWiki. From this: http://wikitest.org/fr/index.php/Accueil to this: http://wikitest.org/fr/wiki/Accueil.

Then I added this code to LocalSettings.php:

## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;
## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.
## For more information on customizing the URLs please see:
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
$wgScriptPath = "/fr";
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
$wgArticlePath = "{$wgScriptPath}/wiki/$1";
$wgUsePathInfo = true

But when I go to my site I get 404 Not Found. The resource requested could not be found on this server!

Answer 1

The changes to LocalSettings.php affects only the links in your wiki. You also need to add the proper rewrite rules to your server,so that there is actually something there for the user to see. In your case, adding something like this to .htaccess might work, assuming you are running Apache:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?fr/wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/fr*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]

You can find detailed instructions for your server in the manual.