By default, DokuWiki does no URL rewriting, resulting in URLs like this:

http://example.com/doku.php?id=page

These URLs are considered ugly and are not indexed well by some search engines.

Rewriting URLs in Apache is done through the mod_rewrite module of Apache 1 or Apache 2. The module is enabled in httpd.conf with the following line (make sure it is not commented out):

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

On many kinds of Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, etc) you may enable mod_rewrite with:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

The setup of module mod_rewrite is done through so-called rewrite rules, which can be either defined directly in the server’s main config or in a .htaccess file located in DokuWiki’s main directory. DokuWiki comes with an .htaccess.dist file which contains the needed rewrite rules for mode 1, but commented. Just copy the file to .htaccess (in the folder that contains doku.php, caveat Debian users) and uncomment the lines to enable rewriting.

In Debian 6 at least you do not have to copy anything. /usr/share/dokuwiki/.htaccess links to /etc/dokuwiki/htaccess. So there is no caveat anymore.

.htaccess

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /dokuwiki

RewriteRule ^_media/(.*)              lib/exe/fetch.php?media=$1  [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^_detail/(.*)             lib/exe/detail.php?media=$1  [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^_export/([^/]+)/(.*)     doku.php?do=export_$1&id=$2  [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^$                        doku.php  [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}       !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}       !-d
RewriteRule (.*)                      doku.php?id=$1  [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^index.php$               doku.php

Remember to set following in the Configuration Manager (/start?do=admin&page=config)

  • Use nice URLs: .htaccess (use find, it’s far down)
  • Use slash as namespace separator in URLs [x]

otherwise rewrite rules will not be useful.

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