Re: HTTP/404 on Special:Upload when using POST

On Sun, 4 May 2025, Brian Wolff wrote:
> If i were to guess, probably something wrong with apache config (e.g. for
> some reason the rewrite rule is ignored on POST). Check your apache error
> log.

Yes, it was some Rewrite snafu after all. Installed a fresh Mediawiki on 
the same machine with a different path, and as soon as I enabled the 
ShortURL hacks the same thing happened.

So, I re-read the documentation for Apache[0] again and now have:

  Alias       /wiki  /var/www/mediawiki/index.php
  RewriteRule ^/*$   %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/mediawiki/index.php [L]

And, in LocalSettings.php:

 $wgScriptPath           = "/mediawiki";
 $wgArticlePath          = "/wiki/$1";
 $wgUsePathInfo          = true;

For some reason I never had that "Alias" directive in my Apache 
configuration before, I don't know how this even worked before. But with 
all that uploads are working again. \o/

Thanks for responding!

Christian.

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache
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