Getting Pretty URLs with phpwiki

The default for the phpwiki wiki software is to have links of the form /index.php/HomePage. This is ugly. To get Wikipedia-style permalinks, append the following to .htaccess and verify that you have the mod_rewrite apache module installed:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.php/([^\.]*)$ /redir.php?dest=$1
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ /index2.php/$1

Now, move your index.php to index2.php. Create a redir.php file that contains only a redirection:

<?
header( 'Location: /' . $_REQUEST['dest'] );
?>

I am aware that phpwiki does support native link prettifying. However, I couldn’t get it to work and had to solve it in some way.

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