can't get my main Mediawiki url to redirect to the wiki Main_Page

edit index file for redirect to

 //wiki/index.php/main_page

Hi ssvl I'm a newbie to linux so I'm assuming you mean the index.php file under /var/www/html/wiki/index.php...where in the doc do I add that line?

Hi,

Just edit for root html file. This must be:
/var/www/html/index.html

I guess there is no index.html file present for your web home directory this is why it is listing the directory.

Just create this if it does not already exist. In the file add these line:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=http://wiki.mydomain.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">

Save exit.

IT is done :)

Cheers,
K.

In Text Editor I created the index.html file as you instructed and typed in the appropriate code.  Now when I type http://wiki.mydomain.com the directory no longer appears, but nothing else does either, it is just blank and doesn't redirect.  If I double-click the newly created index.html file it opens Firefox and I am brought to the http://wiki.mydomain.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page...

Hi,

It seems to me that it may b a browser issue. Will you clear your webcache and try again ? Alternatively you may try to reacy the site from another browser.

What browser do you use nad what is the version ?

I'm using Firefox, cleared the cache and no joy.  Tried IE as well no joy

Hi,

It is very strange that refresh does not work right away. I have never seen such a thing nor could find any complaint about it in apache orums. Will you please retry to access your root and then do

tail /var/log/httpd/access_log

and please paste the result of / request here.

66.83.214.194 - - [16/Nov/2006:14:11:17 -0500] "GET /wiki/skins/common/images/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://wiki.billian.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text"
66.83.214.194 - - [16/Nov/2006:14:11:17 -0500] "GET /wiki/skins/monobook/external.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://wiki.billian.com/wiki/skins/monobook/main.css?9" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text"
66.83.214.194 - - [16/Nov/2006:14:11:17 -0500] "GET /wiki/skins/monobook/user.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://wiki.billian.com/wiki/skins/monobook/main.css?9" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text"
66.83.214.194 - - [16/Nov/2006:14:11:17 -0500] "GET /wiki/skins/common/images/wiki.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://wiki.billian.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text"
66.83.214.194 - - [16/Nov/2006:14:11:17 -0500] "GET /wiki/skins/monobook/bullet.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://wiki.billian.com/wiki/skins/monobook/main.css?9" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text"
66.83.214.194 - - [16/Nov/2006:14:11:17 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 290 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text"
66.83.214.194 - - [16/Nov/2006:14:11:17 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 290 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text"
66.83.214.194 - - [16/Nov/2006:14:11:17 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 290 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text"
66.83.214.194 - - [16/Nov/2006:14:51:11 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 290 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text"
66.83.214.194 - - [16/Nov/2006:14:51:11 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 290 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text"

Here's the ls -al result as well:
total 264
drwxr-xr-x  5 root     root   4096 Nov 16 14:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root     root   4096 Oct 17 16:05 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root      0 Nov 14 16:24 access.log
-rw-r--r--  1      501 zope  17997 Oct 13 20:07 COPYING
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root      0 Nov 14 16:24 error.log
-rw-r--r--  1      501 zope    162 Oct 13 20:07 FAQ
-rw-r--r--  1      501 zope 159466 Oct 13 20:07 HISTORY
-rw-r--r--  1 jclifton root   1019 Nov 16 14:09 .htaccess
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root     94 Nov 16 10:48 index.html
-rw-r--r--  1      501 zope   3989 Oct 13 20:07 INSTALL
drwxr-xr-x 10 root     root   4096 Oct 17 15:24 phpmyadmin
drwxr-xr-x  9 root     root   4096 Aug 15 08:53 phpMyAdmin-2.8.2.2
-rw-r--r--  1      501 zope   3535 Oct 13 20:07 README
-rw-r--r--  1      501 zope  21177 Oct 13 20:07 RELEASE-NOTES
-rw-r--r--  1      501 zope  12210 Oct 13 20:07 UPGRADE
drwxr-xr-x 15      501 zope   4096 Nov 16 14:10 wiki
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root      0 Nov 14 16:22 wiki_access.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root      0 Nov 14 16:22 wiki_error.log

It's working!!  After I did the ls -al and refreshed the redirect succeeded!  

ok please clear log first and try once more:

> /var/log/httpd/access_log

Please don't omit > it will clear the access_log file

and try to reach only  http://wiki.mydomain.com

in fact I've noticed your domain is in the log file and browsed with my internet browser it took me to the
http://wiki.billian.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

as it should :)

:) yeah I tried it too and its working :)) I have done similar refreshes for like 100 web servers or so :)

I can't tell you how awesome this is, I've been banging my head on this off and on for three days.  You rule, KeremE!!  Thanks a million
-jimshock

Congratulations :) Happy to hear that. You're welcome :)