Editing Manual/Short URL (section)

== Redirect visitor of your domain to your wiki == <!--T:90-->

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Our official guides for short url configuration include recommendations on how to point the root of your site to your wiki using your short url config.

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For example our [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Short URL/Apache</tvar>|Apache guide]] recommends using this to point your site root to your wiki:
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RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]
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<translate><!--T:93--> Note that we do '''not''' recommend doing a HTTP redirect to your wiki path or main page directly.</translate>
<translate><!--T:94--> As redirecting to the main page directly will hard-code variable parts of your wiki's page setup into your server config.</translate>
<translate><!--T:95--> And redirecting to the wiki path will result in two redirects.</translate>
<translate><!--T:96--> Simply rewrite the root path to MediaWiki and it will take care of the 301 redirect to the main page itself.</translate>

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If using VirtualHosts, place the rewrite rules into the virtual host declaration!