MediaWiki-l November 2005

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A Mediawiki for registered users only.
by Gordon Joly 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

I have started to create a Mediawiki for use only by registered users. I have set the following in Localsetting.php $wgWhitelistRead = array ( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "Wikipedia:Help"); $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['move'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['read'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['edit'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['upload'] = true; I have also set a timeout (returns to MainPage) to 600 seconds (was 10). $wgOut->addMeta( 'http:Refresh', '10;url=' . $titleObj->escapeFullURL() ); How do I stop the standard search engine from giving some (very limited access) to reading the text inside the wiki to non-logged in users? T.I.A. -- Gordo (aka LoopZilla) gordon.joly(a)pobox.com http://pobox.com/~gordo/ http://www.loopzilla.org/

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MediaWiki quit working
by Paul Oyler - SteelerDirtFreak Photography 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hello, I am hoping someone can help figure out what happened to our site. We are new to using any wiki program, but we were able to install 1.5.1 without any trouble. It was working fine, and several of us were getting used to how everything works. http://metaministry.com/wiki/ Last week, it suddenly 'broke' (for lack of a better word). I went to the MediaWiki home page, saw that there had been some sort of issue with 1.5.1 and so I promptly upgraded to 1.5.2, figuring that would correct our problem. Unfortunately, it had no effect; we are still left with the meaningless (to us) gibberish and no way to use our site. http://metaministry.com/wiki/ I hope that I have explained this correctly, as I am not entirely sure of all the right words to use. Can anyone offer any suggestions to help us figure this out and restore the functionality to our site? We will certainly be most grateful. -- Grace and Peace, Paul Oyler (for the MetaMinistry team) <http://justifiedbygrace.com>

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Re: Intranet Single Signon
by Alistair Johnson 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Chris, if you check archives of this list you'll see I've posted a solution to the NTLM passthrough authentication issue a few times for MW1.4. Anyway, our code that does this is below. Cheers, Al. function loadFromSession() { global $wgMemc, $wgDBname; if ( isset( $_SESSION['wsUserID'] ) ) { if ( 0 != $_SESSION['wsUserID'] ) { $sId = $_SESSION['wsUserID']; } else { return new User(); } } else if ( isset( $_COOKIE["{$wgDBname}UserID"] ) ) { $sId = IntVal( $_COOKIE["{$wgDBname}UserID"] ); $_SESSION['wsUserID'] = $sId; } else if ( isset($_SERVER["AUTH_USER"])) { //Rembrandt modification to allow logon via authentication information //passed from IIS global $wgUser; global $wgDeferredUpdateList; //get the username $temp = explode('domainname', strtolower($_SERVER["AUTH_USER"])); //remove the domain name from AUTH_USER if ($temp[1] == "") { $name = $temp[0]; } else { $name = $temp[1]; } if (substr($username,0,1) == "\\") { $username = substr($username,1);} //pull in the usernames and passwords we'll need for the database lookup global $wgDBprefix; global $wgDBuser; global $wgDBpassword; global $wgDBserver; global $wgDBname; //we'll use PHP's MYSQL module to access the mediawiki database $link = mysql_connect($wgDBserver,$wgDBuser,$wgDBpassword); @mysql_select_db($wgDBname, $link) or die( "Unable to select user database for NTLM authentication"); $query="SELECT * FROM " . $wgDBprefix . "user WHERE LOWER(user_name) = '" . strtolower($name) . "'"; $result = mysql_query($query, $link); $row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC); mysql_close($link); //set the variables we need to transparently authenticate $sId = $row['user_id']; $_SESSION['wsUserID'] = $row['user_id']; $_SESSION['wsUserName'] = $row['user_name']; $_SESSION['wsToken'] = $row['user_token']; //set cookies with this info to make life easier for us in the future global $wgCookieExpiration, $wgCookiePath, $wgCookieDomain, $wgDBname; setcookie( $wgDBname.'UserID', $row['user_id'], 0, $wgCookiePath, $wgCookieDomain ); setcookie( $wgDBname.'UserName', $row['user_name'], 0, $wgCookiePath, $wgCookieDomain ); setcookie( $wgDBname.'Token', $row['user_token'], 0, $wgCookiePath, $wgCookieDomain ); } else { return new User(); } if ( isset( $_SESSION['wsUserName'] ) ) { $sName = $_SESSION['wsUserName']; } else if ( isset( $_COOKIE["{$wgDBname}UserName"] ) ) { $sName = $_COOKIE["{$wgDBname}UserName"]; $_SESSION['wsUserName'] = $sName; } else { return new User(); } $passwordCorrect = FALSE; $user = $wgMemc->get( $key = "$wgDBname:user:id:$sId" ); if($makenew = !$user) { wfDebug( "User::loadFromSession() unable to load from memcached\n" ); $user = new User(); $user->mId = $sId; $user->loadFromDatabase(); } else { wfDebug( "User::loadFromSession() got from cache!\n" ); } if ( isset( $_SESSION['wsToken'] ) ) { $passwordCorrect = $_SESSION['wsToken'] == $user->mToken; } else if ( isset( $_COOKIE["{$wgDBname}Token"] ) ) { $passwordCorrect = $user->mToken == $_COOKIE["{$wgDBname}Token"]; } else { return new User(); # Can't log in from session } if ( ( strtolower($sName) == strtolower($user->mName) ) && $passwordCorrect ) { //modified to allow for case differences between mediawiki and NTLM usernames if($makenew) { if($wgMemc->set( $key, $user )) { wfDebug( "User::loadFromSession() successfully saved user\n" ); } else { wfDebug( "User::loadFromSession() unable to save to memcached\n" ); } } $user->spreadBlock(); return $user; } return new User(); # Can't log in from session } -----Original Message----- From: Chris McIntosh [mailto:cmcintosh@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 7:19 a.m. To: mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Re: Intranet Single Signon I should add more information. $wgIP is set to the login name of the user. So what I am doing here is checking if that login name is already a vaild user if so load it, else create a new account with that name. All that works well, as I said before only problem I have been able to find is saving the preferences. Can't seem to get that token set right. I think it is some sort of session issue since my code executes on each load, but I am not sure. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks Chris McIntosh On 11/16/05, Chris McIntosh <cmcintosh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I am modifying the source code to allow our internal Intranet users to > automatically log in to the wiki based on their username applied by apache. > I do this by using mod_ntlm to get their NTLM credentials and then > want to seemlessly log them in. > > The problem I am having is setting up the user variable (wgUser) properly. > I have tried the following. > > For now I have it near the bottom of Setup.php just to test around > line 300. > > if ( $wgUseRemoteUser) > { > if ($userid = $wgUser->idFromName($wgIP)) { $wgUser->setId($userid); > $wgUser->loadFromDatabase(); } else { $wgUser = > $wgUser->newFromName($wgIP); $wgUser->setId($wgUser->getMaxId()); > $wgUser->addToDatabase(); > } > $wgUser->setToken() ; > $wgUser->setCookies(); > } > > The problem with this approach is I can't change any preferences for > this user. Everything else seems fine but if I try and change a > setting like Underline links, the preference page won't save. I have > tracked that down to the edit token not being set properly, but I am > not sure how to set it. If I remove the check in SpecialPreferences > where it calls matchEditToken then everything works fine. > > Any advice? > > Thanks > Chris McIntosh > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Installing on a read only file system
by Arthur Guy 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Why don't you set up Apache and MySQL on your system, run the instillation and then copy the completed directory over? Arthur -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sechan, Gabe Sent: 16 November 2005 20:04 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] Installing on a read only file system It has to do with how we manage code. Basicly, I cannot touch that file system directly, however I can ask a program to cp a file onto it (more or less. Its more complicated than that). If I have a pre-generated file, I can have it copied to that filesystem. I cannot just create a new file on it though. Although changing the config file to write to a totally different directory and then copy it over might work- I'll try it out. Gabe -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Hans Voss Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:54 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Installing on a read only file system Ehm, maybe a stupid question, but if the filesystem is readonly, I assume the read-only wil have to be lifted in order to install new software on it (like the wiki). Either make the configuration part of the install process or (and?) Make the LocalSettings.php and the images directory a link (hard link) to somewhere on a read/write filesystem. LocalSettings assumes that you might want to change some parameters at some point, the images directory assumes that you want to enable uploads. On 11/16/05, Sechan, Gabe <sechan(a)amazon.com> wrote: > I'm trying to install mediawiki, but the system we use to deploy code has it on a read only file system. I can't just chmod the config directory. Is there another way to configure it? It seems like I'd just need to generate 1 or 2 files, and run some sql commands. > > Gabe > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- ---- Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards Hans Voss --------------------------------------- skype: hans.voss google talk enabled I am looking for people to invite to Gmail. I have 100 invitations left. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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RE: [Mediawiki-l] Installing on a read only file system
by Sechan, Gabe 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

It has to do with how we manage code. Basicly, I cannot touch that file system directly, however I can ask a program to cp a file onto it (more or less. Its more complicated than that). If I have a pre-generated file, I can have it copied to that filesystem. I cannot just create a new file on it though. Although changing the config file to write to a totally different directory and then copy it over might work- I'll try it out. Gabe -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Hans Voss Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:54 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Installing on a read only file system Ehm, maybe a stupid question, but if the filesystem is readonly, I assume the read-only wil have to be lifted in order to install new software on it (like the wiki). Either make the configuration part of the install process or (and?) Make the LocalSettings.php and the images directory a link (hard link) to somewhere on a read/write filesystem. LocalSettings assumes that you might want to change some parameters at some point, the images directory assumes that you want to enable uploads. On 11/16/05, Sechan, Gabe <sechan(a)amazon.com> wrote: > I'm trying to install mediawiki, but the system we use to deploy code has it on a read only file system. I can't just chmod the config directory. Is there another way to configure it? It seems like I'd just need to generate 1 or 2 files, and run some sql commands. > > Gabe > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- ---- Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards Hans Voss --------------------------------------- skype: hans.voss google talk enabled I am looking for people to invite to Gmail. I have 100 invitations left. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Intranet Single Signon
by Chris McIntosh 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

I am modifying the source code to allow our internal Intranet users to automatically log in to the wiki based on their username applied by apache. I do this by using mod_ntlm to get their NTLM credentials and then want to seemlessly log them in. The problem I am having is setting up the user variable (wgUser) properly. I have tried the following. For now I have it near the bottom of Setup.php just to test around line 300. if ( $wgUseRemoteUser) { if ($userid = $wgUser->idFromName($wgIP)) { $wgUser->setId($userid); $wgUser->loadFromDatabase(); } else { $wgUser = $wgUser->newFromName($wgIP); $wgUser->setId($wgUser->getMaxId()); $wgUser->addToDatabase(); } $wgUser->setToken() ; $wgUser->setCookies(); } The problem with this approach is I can't change any preferences for this user. Everything else seems fine but if I try and change a setting like Underline links, the preference page won't save. I have tracked that down to the edit token not being set properly, but I am not sure how to set it. If I remove the check in SpecialPreferences where it calls matchEditToken then everything works fine. Any advice? Thanks Chris McIntosh

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design interfaces using wikimedia
by Rit 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hi, Im new to all this. Im considering using wikimedia to create an interactive web-art-gallery site. Ive been looking around but cant seem to find any really well designed/ cool looking sites that use wikimedia - ie the interface always looks like wikipedia. Doe this mean I dont have control over the design of the site? Are there any links/ examples of sites that use wikimedia/ interactivity and have creative interfaces? looking forward to any responses. Thanks, Rit

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Mediawiki 1.4 installation problem
by pdc124＠yahoo.co.uk 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

ive installed mediawiki 1.4 on a couple of gentoo servers ( 1.4 is the most recent version labelled as stable in gentoo package tree). I dont want to upgrade to PHP5 ATM - installing 1.5 prompts me to install PHP5. Im getting the same error mesages fomr both installtions (different servers) IE generates an error message Quote: Line :2 Char :1 Error :syntax error Code:0 In FF the JSconsole shows Quote: Error: syntax error Source File: http://www.server/wiki/index.php?title=-&action=raw&gen=js Line: 1 Source Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Error: The stylesheet http://www.server/wiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Monobook.css&action=raw&ct… was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/html", is not "text/css". Error: The stylesheet http://www.server/wiki/index.php?title=-&action=raw&gen=css was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/html", is not "text/css". is it me ? or gentoo ? or mediawiki ?

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dmoz pagerank and url rewriting
by FxParlant 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

I'm not a specialist, but if you use firefox and a google pagerank plugin, you've surely noticed sometimes this little thingy, yellow and blue which appears on some websites. I'm told it is meant to say that the site was accepted in the DMOZ directory. I've just noticed that many of mediawiki users are already in the dmoz, but the plugin doesn't show it. I guess this is caused by the url rewriting habbit in use among the mediawiki community. 1) Am I right about these suppositions ? 2) Has someone found a way to keep the redirection for the pages, but have at least on the welcome page, the dmoz signal? As a conclusion, I should say it is not a big deal, and google pagerank are not so much of an important matter. Nevertheless, if I can make my site any better for directories, and engines that's always a good thing. Thanks for your reactions and I hope, hints. François http://www.fxparlant.net

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Template goblin
by FxParlant 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hi, Hacking around in mediawiki 1.5 I came up with an unexpected behavior, which let me think that external links attributes inside templates are treated in a different way as external links inside normal pages. --> Can someone tell me where external links attributes of templates are treated in MW15? My aim is to allow total html in all pages except in discussion. I did this by surrounding the Sanitize::removeHTMLtags() with if (1 == $this->mNamespace){ ... } Some of my templates contain amazon iframes links. But they are totally broken, ending up with: <iframe src=<a href="http:... I did my best to find which regexp searches for the attributes inside templates, but I didn't find it. -->Can someone tell me how to deactivate this transformation? THE GOBLIN Nevertheless I came accros this weird behavior: The iframes links are perfectly rendered as soon as an ISBN call is placed before: {{:BOOK|123456789}} --> broken {{ISBN|123456789}} --> OK {{:BOOK|123456789}} --> OK --> Can someone explain what kind of different treatment the ISBN brings to the page ? (Actually, I'd rather have an explanation of how to have my template links rendered untouched, without adding an ISBN call) Thanks a lot for your help. François

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MediaWiki-l November 2005