Question

I recently installed MediaWiki version 1.19 on a Debian server running Apache. I am able to access pages successfully. However, the pages come up unstyled. I cannot load the stylesheet in my browser.

Using Firebug, I’ve compared the response headers for my site to those for a Wikipedia page. The relevant difference appear to be that my site serves up the stylesheet url (load.php?debug=true&lang=en&modules=mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared|skins.vector&only=styles&skin=vector&*) as text/html content-type and Wikipedia serves it up text/css.

I suspect that it has something to do with the Apache rewrite module settings. I found this page discussing the issue and offering various suggestions for the rewrite rules. I’ve tried them all without any success.

One additional detail that may be relevant: I’m running the MediaWiki code out of the /var/www/wiki directory on my Debian server. I’ve updated the appropriate MediaWiki config settings and added these lines to the .htaccess file in /var/www:

RewriteEngine On

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

What can I do to get Apache to serve up this load.php?debug=true&lang=en&modules=mediawiki... link as text/css content?

Answer 1

The issue turned out to be a basic configuration problem. I had the DocumentRoot in my Apache configuration set to /var/www/wiki. I had the wgScriptPath in LocalSettings.php set to /wiki.

Changing wgScriptPath path to "" and getting rid of the .htaccess rules solved the problem.