DigitalOcean Mediawiki ShortURL

Bobotron

I come to you guys hoping someone has made this work.

I have a digitalocean account. I love it. I'm hosting a few things there, like the BJ Zanzibar backup, a couple of personal wikis for tabletop games, and some other stuff.

I cannot get any form of mediawiki shorturl function to work. It always, always, breaks.

I'm using CentOS 7, ngnix and the standard setup in these two tutorials:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mediawiki-on-centos-7

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-centos-7

I tried with root access. I tried with the non-root .htaccess.

I can't get it to work at all.

Anyone actually gotten this to work on digitalocean?

surreality

I've gotten it to work, but on Ubuntu. I am no help at all with CentOS. Not much help with general Ubuntu, either, but had managed this on it. Hopefully someone familiar with CentOS will chime in.

ixokai

This is apache config, doesn't really have anything to do with what distribution or host you have.

Have you seen: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

Bobotron

@ixokai

Yeah. I have used that guideline plus the redworks setup and still no luck. It WORKS and redirects just fine... and just gives me a 404, like it's not processing the php file.

ixokai

@bobotron Where is your actual wiki installation, the full path to the php?

EDIT: Oh wait, you said nginx. I don't know anything about setting it up for nginx.

Bobotron

@ixokai

Nah, I'm using apache. httpd.

My wiki is site/mw/index.php/Article

I'm just trying to remove the /index.php/

skew

This help at all? http://musoapbox.net/topic/2298/mediawiki-changing-index-php
I appreciate you commented on the thread saying you'd give it a try. But, that's what worked for me (on Ubuntu). @surreality gives another version that the original site I link handles, and is flagged as the "if you don't have root access" method. One or the other should work... I hope?

ixokai

@bobotron said in DigitalOcean Mediawiki ShortURL:

@ixokai

Nah, I'm using apache. httpd.

Oh, your first post mentioned nginx.

My wiki is site/mw/index.php/Article

I'm just trying to remove the /index.php/

I know what you're trying to do

What's your rewrite rules?

The reason I ask is because you don't remove index.php -- you map /wiki/foo to /mw/index.php/foo, that's how this short names work.

Bobotron

@skew
I tried to use what you posted and realized that mine is installed differently than yours, and I was missing the stuff to put into the LocalSettings.php so it didn't work.

@ixokai
I am not really a server admin. I think I posted ngnix thinking that I had installed it to get the Apache I got? I installed CentOS 7 because it was suggested to be the easiest one for PennMUSH to be installed/used with.

I use httpd to mess with my stuff, like apachectl to restart it when I make changes. I'm far from a server admin, so I'm kinda blind when it comes to crazy changes.

The rewrite rules it's giving me are:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?mw/wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mw/index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?mw/images/thumb/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mw/thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2 [L,QSA,B]

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?mw/images/thumb/archive/[0-9a-f]/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mw/thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2&archived=1 [L,QSA,B]

And the LocalSettings stuff:
$wgScriptPath = "/mw";
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
$wgArticlePath = "{$wgScriptPath}/wiki/$1";

When I enter all that, it returns a 404 Not Found error, but it does remove the index.php from the site.

ixokai

@bobotron Okay yeah the issue is you're not doing what the instructions are telling you to.

With the short urls, the "real" mediawiki lives in /w (/mw is fine), but everyone accesses it almost exclusively via /wiki -- which notably doesn't exist. Whenever Apache gets http://foo/wiki/Blah it rewrites it into a call to http://foo/w/index.php.

I refer you to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache again:

You have:

RewriteRule ^/?mw/wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mw/index.php [L]

What you need to have:

RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mw/index.php [L]

You're combining 'mw' (actual installation) with 'wiki' (rewrite aliases) into one thing and its breaking.

In your LocalSettings.php, you want:

$wgScriptPath = "/mw";
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";

Now you have a lot of other rules that there about images that I'm not sure what they do, I don't use them and haven't ever seen them so I wonder where you're getting these rule-sets from when you say "it's" giving me?

Bobotron

@ixokai

The redworks shorturl creator is filling in an image 404 handler; I can unclick the option, as I've never had 404 image errors but felt it was worth keeping in just in case.

I realize what I posted was reset, as I forgot to pull /wiki/ out of it as I was trying to just remove the index.php section (if I can't rewrite to just point to /mw/ that's fine, I can point to wiki without issue).

And I had read over that, and kept looking at it and it seemed to match what the redworks builder was giving me. Even going back in and making the directory /wiki/Article, it still doesn't work. What you gave me matches up with what redworks outputs, but I still jut get a 404 Not Found error when it rewrites/redirects. What I have currently:

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

(I have the above, above my SSL stuff in my site.conf file).

$wgScriptPath = "/mw";
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";

Still just a 404 error, but it does rewrite (I go to mw and it rewrites to wiki/Main_Page and gives me a 404). I also tried it without that second rewriterule line and it still does the same.

ixokai

@bobotron said in DigitalOcean Mediawiki ShortURL:

And I had read over that, and kept looking at it and it seemed to match what the redworks builder was giving me. Even going back in and making the directory /wiki/Article, it still doesn't work.

I'm confused, what do you mean 'making the directory /wiki/Article'? The whole point of this is those don't exist?

Otherwise, I'm leaning towards stumped

Bobotron

@ixokai

Currently the wiki is stored in site.com/mw
The site loads as: site.com/mw/index.php/Article
The goal is to be: site.com/wiki/Artice

Using the options provided by the ShortURL builder (which looks like it matches up with what you provided), I get:

site.com/wiki/Main_Page (for example) with a 404 Not Found error.

The options I'm using are (in site.conf above my SSL):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mw/index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mw/index.php [L]

In LocalSettings.php:
$wgScriptPath = "/mw";
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";

ixokai

@bobotron said in DigitalOcean Mediawiki ShortURL:

@ixokai

Currently the wiki is stored in site.com/mw
The site loads as: site.com/mw/index.php/Article
The goal is to be: site.com/wiki/Artice

I don't know why you keep telling me this. I have known this since your first post.

I said I'm leaning towards stumped as to why you're getting a 404, not that you need to re-explain the information you've already given.

Are you configuring this in a .htaccess or in an apache config file?

Bobotron

@ixokai

Oh, my bad. Sorry, I thought the two different things I had posted about the setup might've been getting crossed. It's in the game.conf virtual host config file. I also tried the .htaccess version and it didn't work either. I know mod_rewrite is enabled, which was the first thing suggested to me.

ixokai

@bobotron said in DigitalOcean Mediawiki ShortURL:

@ixokai

Oh, my bad. Sorry, I thought the two different things I had posted about the setup might've been getting crossed. It's in the game.conf virtual host config file. I also tried the .htaccess version and it didn't work either. I know mod_rewrite is enabled, which was the first thing suggested to me.

Can you pastebin your site.conf? I can't think of anything else but looking at the whole config

Bobotron

@ixokai

https://justpaste.it/78j5y

I wonder if my SSL is messing with it? I wouldn't think so, but...

skew

While I really don't have any idea how any of this works... I do notice that site/mw/index.php/article is not site/index.php/article, the latter obviously being what the "most common" mediawiki setup seems to be.

Could be you need to go about this a very different way if you want to do site/wiki/article. More likely, you'll have success with site/mw/wiki/article?

ixokai

@bobotron said in DigitalOcean Mediawiki ShortURL:

@ixokai

https://justpaste.it/78j5y

I wonder if my SSL is messing with it? I wouldn't think so, but...

No, because that's not a site's ssl configuration (and in general, ssl and rewrite work together fine)

Aaand...

Just to be for sure safe, from the server can you:

ls /var/www/v5game/public_html/mw/index.php

and see a file?

@skew said in DigitalOcean Mediawiki ShortURL:

While I really don't have any idea how any of this works... I do notice that site/mw/index.php/article is not site/index.php/article, the latter obviously being what the "most common" mediawiki setup seems to be.

The index.php shortening is a hack, but works, but ew. No, /wiki is incredibly common.

Could be you need to go about this a very different way if you want to do site/wiki/article. More likely, you'll have success with site/mw/wiki/article?

Not that wouldn't work at all. @Bobotron is going about it the recommended and right way, its just not working (and I don't know why)

Bobotron

@ixokai
I got:

[elmerg@hotbmush-host mw]$ ls /var/www/v5game/public_html/mw/index.php

/var/www/v5game/public_html/mw/index.php

[elmerg@hotbmush-host mw]$