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Here some random experience in setting up fpga4u.epfl.ch wiki with MediaWiki .

Secure login form

We wanted to have the login form of MediaWiki to be secured through https. We have to 2 VirtualHost directives. One for the SSL enabled access and the other for normal. We wrote these apache mod_rewrite:

For the VirtualHost on port 80:
#Rewrite login url to use httpsRewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^title=Special:Userlogin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R]

For the VirtualHost on port 80:
#Rewrite non login url to use normal http
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(?!title=Special:Userlogin)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}$1 [R]

Hope it helps.