Will installing wordpress mess up mediawiki subfolder?

Installing WordPress above mediawiki might (would need to test) mess up mediawiki's permalinks system.  However, this would be relatively easy to fix by making sure the mediawiki .htaccess file clears out the WordPress rules.

There's nothing in the root directory except for htaccess. I need to make a home page of some sort.

What happens right now if you just go to 'oursite.com'?

It's nlpwiki(dot)org

Note mediawiki here:

nlpwiki(dot)org/wiki

Can I back up the wiki folder and install wordpress, then upload again if Wordpress messes mediawiki up?

You can.  But I wouldn't.  Why not just do it once?  I would install Wordpress to it's own subdirectory and put an index page in the web root that lets people select the blog or the wiki to go to next.

We need the index page to be graphically nice and have a CMS something like wordpress. It will be edited by non-techies. Any idea on how to do this fast and simple? I don't mind uploading again, it's just files, unless we have to reinstall.

'fast and simple?'  No.  It's always the details that get you.

I want to install Wordpress on the root, but I think there will be an htaccess conflict. Wordpress will just be for one page - the home page, how do I install wordpress and work out the htaccess conflict?

Or is there another good CMS for one page. I'm not a heavy developer.

Hre's the wordpress htaccess from a similar site:


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

There's no htaccess for the root or /wiki subdirectory.

Am I going to have an htaccess problem? Is there a better way?

My Wordpress sites do not have an 'htaccess' file on them.

By the way, my basic Wordpress installation consists of over 30 directories and 200+ files.  It is not just a single page.

This is working so far.