apache - Rewrite old mediawiki URL pattern to short URL format -

we have been running mediawiki installation years now. during upgrade newer version, decided switch short url pattern wikipedia uses. working fine.

so our config file looks

  # enable rewrite engine   rewriteengine on    # short url wiki pages   rewritecond %{document_root}%{request_uri} !-f   rewritecond %{document_root}%{request_uri} !-d   rewriterule ^(.*)$ %{document_root}/index.php [nc] 

as specified in documentation mediawiki.

but have old urls floating around other places, support still.

the old url this:

wiki.domain.com/wiki/index.php/articlename 

now url looks this:

wiki.domain.com/wiki/articlename 

but using old url, gives page not found.

we have tried using online htaccess tester find correct rewriterule. , work there. not when using in on our apache server config.

tried rule, right after rewriteengine on:

rewriterule ^(.*?)index\.php(/|$) /$1 [r=301,nc,ne] 

which supposed redirect user new url. still page not found error, , url still looks same. our new rewrite rule wrong, or might there else wrong in apache config. provide config file if need be.

ended rule:

rewriterule ^(.*?)index\.php\/(.*) $1$2 [l,nc,r=301] 

select parts before , after index.php , store them using (). using $1 , 2 create new url string. i'm sure there better solutions, works too.