Editing Manual/Short URL (section)

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The default MediaWiki installation path looks like this:
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: <code>/var/www/html/mediawiki</code> ''<translate><!--T:6--> (installed as root user)</translate>''
: <code>/home/johndoe/public_html/mediawiki</code> ''<translate><!--T:7--> (installed with a shared hosting provider)</translate>''

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MediaWiki's default page addresses looks like these examples:
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: <code><nowiki>https://example.org/w/index.php/Page_title</nowiki></code> ''<translate><!--T:9--> (recent versions of MediaWiki, without [[w:Common Gateway Interface|CGI]] support)</translate>''
: <code><nowiki>https://example.org/w/index.php?title=Page_title</nowiki></code> ''<translate><!--T:10--> (recent versions of MediaWiki, with CGI support)</translate>''

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Using the methods outlined on this page, we can configure something like this:
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: <code><nowiki>https://example.org/wiki/Page_title</nowiki></code> <translate><!--T:12--> This is the most common configuration, same as on Wikipedia, though not the default because it requires server-side modifications</translate>
: <code><nowiki>https://example.org/view/Page_title</nowiki></code>
: <code><nowiki>https://wiki.example.org/view/Page_title</nowiki></code>
: <code><nowiki>https://example.org/Page_title</nowiki></code> 
: <code><nowiki>https://wiki.example.org/Page_title</nowiki></code> 

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<translate><!--T:137--> See <tvar name=1></tvar> for potential problems and solutions.</translate>

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