Getting rid of ugly URLs in MediaWiki

Hey guys,
I've been at it all weekend but no joy. I recently 'upgraded' from Snow Leopard Server to Mountain Lion and I'm in the process of rebuilding everything that is dependent on MySQL.
I've hit a roadblock with setting up MediaWiki and 'pretty URLs'. The installation has worked fine but it now sits at wiki.domain.com/index.php/Main_Page instead of the 'pretty URL' setup of wiki.domain.com/wiki/main_page
Has anyone had any success in configuring Apache on OS X Mountain Lion Server to allow for the use of 'pretty URLs'?
Any help in this matter would be most appreciated.

Hi everyone,
I finally figured it out so I thought I would share it here.
The Website Root was set as /Volumes/Data/MediaWiki/
MediaWiki was installed at /Volumes/Data/MediaWiki/w/
(Change according to your setup)
After creating a fresh MySQL database I then ran though the MediaWiki installation wizard which could be reached at http://wiki.domain.com/w/
At this point the URL looks ridiculous not don't worry! Just run through the installation and put the localsettings.php file that is generated into the /w/ folder.
Then what you wanna do is open up your favourite text editor which is capable of being authenticated as admin (this is important as we are working with a .htaccess file). I use SubEthaEdit with "hidden files" turn on in terminal. Google Search for "show hidden files in finder" to do this and then run the command in Terminal. Finder will restart then hidden files will be visible.
Put this code into a new document:
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache
# Enable the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On
# Short url for wiki pages
RewriteRule ^/?wiki(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]
# Redirect / to Main Page
RewriteRule ^/*$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]
Save it as a .htaccess in /Volumes/Data/MediaWiki/
Important to note that you are NOT saving it in the MediaWiki installation which I have in:
/Volumes/Data/MediaWiki/w/
Once you have done this, go into the /w/ folder where MediaWiki actually is and open up the localsettings.php document.
Find this:
## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;
## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.
## For more information on customizing the URLs
## (like /w/index.php/Page_title to /wiki/Page_title) please see:
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
And change the settings directly below it to reflect this:
$wgScriptPath = "/w";
$wgArticlePath= "/wiki/$1";
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
And Voila! You have done it!!!!
If you need any help, find me on Twitter @FlyingSquidwolf.

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