How Do I Clean Up My Wiki URL?

[void]

I like how your URLs look for your wiki:

http://www.vaultwiki.org/books/VaultWiki-Manual

Right now Mine look like:

website.com/forum/showwiki.php?title=title

I want to remove the 'showwiki.php?title=' and have it coming out of a vault folder like you guys do. How do I do that?

Thanks for everything! This is going so much smoother than my last attempt with vbpro and mediawiki.

[pegasus]

Hi,

In addition to the settings I am going to discuss, you will need to modify your .htaccess file to accomplish what you want. You can get some help with that from this article: Configuring .HTACCESS

Now for the settings...

You can change the URL format in AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> VaultWiki: Server Settings.

Use the filename setting to set your "vault" or "wiki" folder name.
Set "Simplify Wiki URLs" to yes.

You can also make your URL: website.com/wiki/title
instead of: website.com/forum/wiki/title
by setting the Wiki Base URL to: website.com

That should get you close. Keep in mind that the URLs you will get won't look exactly like they do here until the next patch is released (ETA July 25).

[void]

I'm still having trouble getting this to work right, and I just upgraded to the latest version.

my htaccess file (located in my vb forum directory):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^wiki.php(.*)$ showwiki.php$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^showwiki.php?title=(.*)$ wiki/$1 [L,R=301]

I've enabled simple urls and changed the filename setting from 'showwiki' to 'wiki'. When I goto website.com/forums/wiki/title , i get a 404.

Can someone post their htaccess file as an example maybe? Or least point me in the right direction of what I'm doing wrong.

[pegasus]

You still need the rule to Rewrite wiki/ to showwiki_proxy.php. This is mentioned in the htaccess help page.

[void]

OK so here's my current htaccesss:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^wiki.php(.*)$ showwiki.php$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^showwiki.php?title=(.*)$ wiki/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^wiki/Default:(.*)$ wiki/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)?$ showwiki_proxy.php [L,QSA]

I went through my httpd.conf to make sure rewrite was enabled.

'LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so' is uncommented
and
I changed AllowOverride to all

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

I've enabled simple urls and changed the filename setting from 'showwiki' to 'wiki'.

still getting 404s when I goto website.com/forums/wiki/title

Thanks in advance!

[pegasus]

Try:

RewriteBase /forums/

If this doesn't work I would recommend moving the rules to the domain root.

[void]

Hey that did it! Thanks a lot!

Much appreciated!

[Badorties]

Hi i'm having a similar problem so i hope you dont mind me posting to the same thread.

I would like my wiki to display at website.com/wiki/article . Presently i have vb installed at website.com/boards/ . was wondering how exactly to make this happen?

In my vaultwiki server settings i have the following options:

Base url: http://webiste.com
filename of the wiki php: wiki
simplify wiki links: enabled

in my forum base, my htaccess is:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^wiki.php(.*)$ showwiki.php$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^showwiki.php?title=(.*)$ wiki/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^wiki/Default:(.*)$ wiki/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)?$ showwiki_proxy.php [L,QSA]

I attempted following the Configuring htaccess from the manual but it was slightly confusing. Is Case #1 from that guide inferring that the wiki is physically installed in /wiki/ ?

[pegasus]

Your .htaccess is correct if you want your wiki at /boards/wiki/ (which your server settings don't reflect).

VaultWiki must always be physically installed in the forum root. Case #1 suggests that you want your URLs to imply that it's installed in /wiki/ - not /boards/wiki/

Use the instructions on the 1st chapter of Configuring .htaccess to accomplish Case 1 (Wiki and Forum in Separate Folders). As discussed there, you need 2 .htaccess files to get this working.

[optikalefx]

So even though simplify URLs is on, and all the URLs look great, they won't work until you do htaccess changes? Thats where I am, I have simplify URL's on and they look good, but they all return a 404 error page. I did rebuild the URLs but i guess I need htaccess changes to make this work?

[pegasus]

That's correct. When the option is on, VaultWiki knows to make links in that format, but your server won't know what to do with them unless you make .htaccess changes.