Nginx clean urls rewrite for Mediawiki

Question

I've done my best to research and try solutions I've found before posting this, hopefully it will help others also.

I'm trying to write urls in Mediawiki to domain.com/PageTitle (I know this is bad practice). I've gotten it 99% working with this:

http://snipt.org/msh (off a tutorial for drupal so might be completely wrong for my purposes)

But what isn't working is when I add "&action=purge" to the end of a page title. It tries to show me a page called "PageTitle&action=purge".

I'm not sure how I got around this in Apache.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Some more information, pages with a / in the title don't show the logo because it thinks it's suddenly one directory wrong.

Here's my rules in Apache:

RewriteEngine On

/#anything that contains a dot without a colon should be left alone

RewriteRule ^[^:]*. - [L]

/#anything that contains a slash without a colon should be left alone

RewriteRule ^[^:]*\/ - [L]

/#redirect to main page

RewriteRule ^/*$ /index.php?title=Main_Page [L,QSA]

/#anything else is to be treated as a title

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

I need to convert the first two for nginx, and then we'll see where that get's me. Any help with that?

Answer 2

NginxMediaWiki:

http {
  include       mime.types;
  default_type  application/octet-stream;

  sendfile        on;
  keepalive_timeout  30;
  gzip  on;
  charset utf-8;

  server {
    listen 80;
    server_name wiki.nginx.org;

    root /var/www/mediawiki;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/wiki.nginx.org-access.log;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/wiki.nginx.org-error.log info;

    location / {
      index index.php5;
      error_page 404 = @mediawiki;
    }

    location @mediawiki {
      rewrite ^/([^?] *)(?:\?(.*))? /index.php5?title=$1&$2 last;
    }

    location ~ \.php5?$ {
      include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
      fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:8888;
      fastcgi_index index.php5;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
  }
}