Common Theme for MediaWiki and WordPress
From Sandro Groganz, Open Source Marketing Consultant
I have been asked repeatedly via email about details of my site setup, merging MediaWiki and WordPress.
Directory structure
- <webroot>/design: Side-wide CSS, header, footer, image files.
- <webroot>/mediawiki: You guessed it, this is where the MediaWiki installation resides.
- <webroot>/weblog: WordPress is installed here.
Design
You can download my compressed design/ archive.
Make sure you adjust the following parameters in config.php:
- $_SG_DESIGN['include_path']: Should point to the design/ directory, e.g. /var/www/design/.
- $_SG_DESIGN['domain']: The URL of your Web root, e.g. http://sandro.groganz.com.
Next, download my WordPress theme, uncompress and move it to <webroot>/weblog/wp-content/themes/. In header.php and footer.php, you will see that I included the relevant files from design/ there. Adjust the paths in the two files in case something does not work out.
In MediaWiki, I created a skin by renaming the default skin folder to sandrogroganz/ and by adding sandrogroganz.php to <webroot>/mediawiki/skins/. This file includes the header and footer from design/.
Rewrite Rules
To glue it all together on the URL level, I created the following rewrite rules.
Content of <webroot>/.htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
# Canonical hostname
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^sandro\.groganz\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sandro.groganz.com/$1 [L,R=301]
# Redirect old pages
RewriteRule ^about_me$ /wiki/About_Me [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^about_me/biography$ /wiki/Biography [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^about_me/contact$ /wiki/Contact_Me [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^talks(.*)$ /wiki/Talks [L,R=301]
# URLs like example.com/Main_Page
#RewriteRule ^/COPYING$ /mediawiki/COPYING [L]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mediawiki/
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(robots\.txt|favicon\.ico|winfwiki\.png|design)
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /mediawiki/index.php/$1 [L,NE]
#RewriteRule ^$ /wiki/Overview [L]
# URLs like example.com/wiki/Main_Page
RewriteRule ^wiki/?(.*)$ /mediawiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^$ /wiki/Overview [L]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/.*&.*
</IfModule>
Content of <webroot>/weblog/.htaccess:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /weblog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /weblog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
