Rewrite Configuration

When installing VaultWiki for the first time, or upgrading to VaultWiki 4 from VaultWiki 3, or if you have made changes recently to Settings: Site Config, you may need to update your server's Rewrite configuration. If you are using default values for the following settings, you can skip this step:

• Filename of the Wiki PHP File
  
• Wiki URL Format

Depending on what kind of software your web server uses, the configuration will vary.

Apache

Locate the /.htaccess file in your forum directory or create a new one.

Add the following to the file:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# If filename is not 'wiki_index', replace WIKI_FILE and uncomment the following line
# RewriteRule ^WIKI_FILE.php wiki_index.php [L,QSA]

# If URL format is /wiki/path, uncomment the following 2 lines
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ wiki_index.php [L,QSA]

NginX

Open your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file for editing, locate the server block for the domain where VaultWiki is installed, and add the following, where /forums/ is your forum directory:

Code:

location /forums/ {
	# for vBulletin, uncomment the following line
# if ($request_filename != /(?:admincp|clientscript|cpstyles|install|images|modcp|cron|vbseo|vault))
# for XenForo, uncomment the following line
# if ($request_filename != /(?:admin|data|install|js|styles|vault)
{
		set $redirect_url $fastcgi_script_name;
		rewrite ^ /forums/wiki_index.php last;
	}
}

Note:

If you use vBSEO or some other method of catch-all URL rewriting, keep in mind that VaultWiki's rewrite rules should super-cede and completely replace the rules for your existing solution. You can pass URLs that VaultWiki fails to match to your catch-all script using the DEFAULT_SCRIPT directive in /vault/config.php.