I am testing 1.4 beta 3. So far so great! Seems very fast to me. :-)
There are only two problems - one formal, and one very much perplexing.
The formal is the type of upload for parserTests.txt - my FTP client
wants it uploaded as binary file.
The second is the stubborn reluctance of the system (it is not my
browser or cache) to change some messages, like "*Missing image*" - in
Language.php, I have changed it to "MI", but still the message says
"Missing image". The same with the subtitle (I have extended it), with
"The Free Encyclopedia" tag under the sitename, with the copyright text
I want it to read "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. All content is
available under $1", and probably elsewhere.
Thank you,
Plamen
Hi MediaWiki Sysops/Admins/Devs,
Hi readers of this ML,
I'm working on a Portal for an NGO. The public Wiki (using MediaWiki) i
already installed + configured and it works great - MediaWiki is a really
great written piece of work! (i really like the xhtml template! this made
the integration sooo easy!!!! thanx!!! ;-) (after making it public, i
will announce the "CP-Wiki" here and everywhere else)
Now i'm trying to find the best Wiki-Engine, that is able to work in the
Member-Section of this NGO.
All the advantages of the MediaWiki are suiting me well and i want to use
it as well in the Member-Section as well as on the public area.
The thing is: As Members are already identified/logged-in (folder access)
in the Member Section, i don't want to have a second log-in for the Wiki
to confuse the people ... and other people are per definition not
accessing this closed WIKI ;-)
My question is therefore:
###########################################
Is it possible to make use of $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] for user-management
in MediaWiki?
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If it is not "out-of-the-box" possible, i would be happy hearing, that
someone else is doing it this way. Sharing experiences would be nice ;-)
This mainly, because i know, that if i would hack mediawiki to support
something like this (i didn't yet had much time to have a look at the
code in detail), and then mediawiki gets updated to a version that breaks
my code, i would be needing again some hours to make it work again ...
and this for each new version, that breaks my things :-(
Every kind of feedback is welcome! If you know a wiki engine, that suits
better for such a situation, feel free to let me know.
Thank you for reading this and THANK YOU VERY MUCH in advance for any
input on this subject,
Best Regards,
Damir Perisa
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He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.
-- Sinbad
Hello,
I tried to upgrade some mediawiki installations from 1.2 to 1.4 beta
and run into trouble with convertLinks.inc . It seem that there are
some functions used which are not defined (I tried the last tgz and
HEAD from cvs):
lines 71 & 90: $dbw->setBufferResults
line 105: wfLimitResult
I think I fixed these in my install, but after convertlinks finished
all other stuff stopped working :-) I think the mysql connection was
closed somewhere.
So I skipped the whole convertlinks and my wiki lost all the "what
links to here" bits. Are there any other problems which could show up
later?
christof
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Are the built-in category pages pre-populated? My install of MediaWiki using
the latest Wikipedia database dump shows relatively sparse category pages
compared to those on Wikipedia.org.
For example, [[Category:Japanese_language]] on the en Wikipedia shows 2
subcategories and 58 of articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Japanese_language
My install shows:
Category:Japanese language
Articles in category "Japanese language"
There are 0 articles in this category.
I'm not trying to create categories. I just want the category pages linked
from, for example, [[Wikipedia:Browse]], to have some content. Is there a
maintenance script that needs to be run? I couldn't find any help on meta or
the list archives.
I'm using:
MediaWiki 1.3.9
2004-12-09 database dump
Thanks,
Paul
Thanks for everyone's help on this. Looks like I'm better off putting the wiki
somewhere
other than SourceForge.
G. Kulczycki
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>On Dec 20, 2004, at 8:45 PM, gregwk wrote:
>[snip]
>> Is SourceForge somehow fundamentally different from the Mozilla and
>> DreamHost servers?
>
>That's correct.
>
>Mozilla runs their own server, so doesn't have to worry about malicious
>local users. (By the way, the page you were looking at is just a copy
>of the documentation on meta.wikimedia.org.)
>
>DreamHost runs PHP scripts through a CGI handler, so the effective user
>ID of the script process can be that of the particular virtual host's
>own account. Thus your own script can read files that other local users
>and their scripts cannot read.
>
>SourceForge runs PHP as an Apache module, with all users' scripts
>running under a single user ID which is different from the user and
>group IDs of the individual projects. It is impossible for your script
>to read a file unless all scripts are given permission to read the
>file.
>
>For more information please see:
>http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?
>docid=4297&group_id=1#security
>
>http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?
>docid=14267&group_id=1#websharedreason
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That certainly sounds reasonable, but some web pages seem to indicate that
some
people have at least had success in restricting access to the
LocalSettings.php file.
For example, Mozilla's wiki (at
http://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php/LocalSettings.php)
states:
"The wgDBuser and wgDBpassword variables contain the login name and password
to be
used by MediaWiki to access the database. Make sure the specified user has the
proper
access rights to be able to manipulate the wiki's table on the database
server.
Also keep in mind that the LocalSettings.php permissions should not allow
other users to
view this file as it contains security-related data."
And a page that explains how to set up MediaWiki at DreamHost
(http://wiki.schubart.net/How_to_Install_MediaWiki_at_DreamHost)
contains the following section:
"Increase Security
The PHP files contain passwords, so let's restrict access:
chmod 600 /home/bob/wiki.bobsdomain.com/wiki/*.php"
Is SourceForge somehow fundamentally different from the Mozilla and DreamHost
servers? If not, I'm inclined to think that someone has had success in this.
However,
when I try to change the permissions of my *.php files to 600, I am unable to
log into
the wiki. Has anyone had any experience setting up a MediaWiki and setting
their *.php
file permissions to 600?
G. Kulczycki
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>On Dec 20, 2004, at 1:49 PM, gregwk wrote:
>> I set up a MediaWiki on SourceForge.
>> It seems that anyone with an account on SourceForge has read access to
>> my LocalSettings.php file, which contains my database password.
>[snip]
>> I am using MediaWiki 1.3.9. Any suggestions on how to prevent people
>> from reading my database password?
>
> From what I can tell, you can't reliably do this on SourceForge.
>
>The file must be readable by the web server; because of the way file
>permissions work this generally means it's readable by any local user:
>I can log into the SF servers as my own account and read your files, or
>I can write a web script on my SF site to read your SF site's files.
>
>If the file is owned by you (instead of by the web server) then you can
>at least keep other people from changing its permissions, but you can't
>stop them reading it.
>
>If SF used PHP's "Safe Mode" (which is problematic for many reasons,
>but sometimes useful for multiuser systems) this might be able to stop
>other peoples' PHP scripts from reading your file, but would probably
>not stop them from logging in and looking at your file or writing CGI
>scripts and looking at your file.
>
>Any database-driven application running on SF will have a similar
>problem, as far as I can see. In order to connect to the database, the
>scripts _must_ have access to the plaintext password to open a
>connection. Since the scripts are run under a common user ID, they all
>have access.
>
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I set up a MediaWiki on SourceForge.
It seems that anyone with an account on SourceForge has read access to my
LocalSettings.php file, which contains my database password.
>From what I have read on the web, it seems that some people have successfully
been
able to change the permissions of LocalSettings.php to 600. However, when I
try this I
get the following warning and error when I try to visit my site.
Warning: main(./LocalSettings.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied
in /home/
groups/t/ta/takocompiler/htdocs/wikitako/index.php on line 19
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './LocalSettings.php'
(include_path='.:/usr/
local/share/pear') in /home/groups/t/ta/takocompiler/htdocs/wikitako/index.php
on line
19
I am using MediaWiki 1.3.9. Any suggestions on how to prevent people from
reading my
database password?
Thanks,
Greg Kulczycki
Giovanni,
I had a similar problem a couple of weeks ago & Jamie was kind enough to
provide the following advice:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Bliss [mailto:astronouth7303@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2004 8:54 a.m.
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] custom extension including <script> tags
>
> Try placing the code in a seperate file and referencing it in a single
> line. This works for me:
>
> function renderRandomQuote( $input )
> {
> $output = '<script type="text/javascript"
> src="http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/xml/spotlight_js.php"></script>
> <a href="http://www.chiefdelphi.com/"
> title="http://www.chiefdelphi.com/"><img
>
src="http://furc.zapto.org/wiki/stylesheets/monobook/external.png"></a><span
> class="urlexpansion"> (<i>http://www.chiefdelphi.com/</i>)</span>';
> return $output;
> }
>
> (This is actually in use on "http://furc.zapto.org/wiki/", using the
> tag <randomquote>) I think the code that handles the output doesn't
> preserve things within <script> tags, but it will preserve attributes.
So the way to work around this problem is to keep the javascript in an
external file & call it via an extension. Note that the call *must* be on a
single line to make this work.
al.
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From: Giovanni [mailto:gputignano@tiscali.it]
Sent: Monday, 20 December 2004 12:23 a.m.
To: Jamie Bliss; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Java Script
I want to use JavaScript in a wiki that I use to create eBay insertion so
I'm the only that use that wiki.
I would like to know how to unblock <script> tag for the purpose I said
above.
Thanks,
Giovanni
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In Mediawiki, we can use {{namespace:page}} or {{templatePage}} to embed
a page. But {{Special:Newpages}} doesn't work that way. Is there any
workaround?
Thanks
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John
