MediaWiki-l September 2005

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Changing the user login system
by Sechan, Gabe 17 Sep '05

17 Sep '05

I'm setting up a wiki for a system that has an existing corporate login system. We want it to be integrated with this system, rather than relying on an external one. Especially I don't want it to set any type of cookie to check user id, as this may weaken the security of the existing system. Basicly anywhere it figures out the user id, I'd like to pull that and rely on my code to figure out what user it is (I will still have a user table in the db, it will map external user ids to wiki ids). Can anyone point me out to what files would need to be changed? I'm guessing User.php, but what file actually does the logon sequence? Gabe

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Error during install of MediaWiki: Fatal error: Class rccacheentry
by David Broccardo 17 Sep '05

17 Sep '05

I'm getting this error during the installation process ( I have changed the permission of the config folder to 777 ): Fatal error: Class rccacheentry: Cannot inherit from undefined class recentchange in /home/userkirk/public_html/includes/Skin.php on line 53 Here is a copy of the install report: ------------------------------------------------------ MediaWiki 1.4.9 installation Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. Checking environment... * PHP 4.3.11: ok * Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. MediaWiki will work correctly, but this setting increases your exposure to potential security vulnerabilities in PHP-based software running on your server. You should disable it if you are able. * PHP server API is apache; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP is configured with no memory_limit. * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Turck MMCache not installed, can't use object caching functions * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: /home/userkirk/public_html * Script URI path: * Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually. Fatal error: Class rccacheentry: Cannot inherit from undefined class recentchange in /home/userkirk/public_html/includes/Skin.php on line 53 Dave

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Default search? Adding namespaces to it
by Bass, Joshua L 17 Sep '05

17 Sep '05

I added a namespace and put several pages into it. However, I cannot make the search function default to searching both the main and the new namespace. The namespace is "Key Term", so I added this to my LocalSettings.php: $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault = array( NS_MAIN => true, NS_KEY_TERM => true ); It only searches the Main namespace.

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Import dump
by shardsofmetal 17 Sep '05

17 Sep '05

I was wondering how you import an xml dump from meta. When I tried using Special:Import, it gave me the error "Unknown Import Source Type". If there is a different way i should be doing this, please let me know. Thanks, shardsofmetal

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mediawiki behind reverse proxy - relative links
by ralf-buero＠kruedewagen.de 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hi, I am trying to run mediawiki (v1.4.0) behind a reverse proxy. The reverse proxy is set up with Apache2 mod_proxy module. The problem is now, that mediawiki is using an absolute path in href links, which I can't handle with mod_proxy. Example of a mediawiki link in HTML-Source: <a href="/mediawiki/index.php/Special:Recentchanges" .....> My $wgScriptPath is set to "/mediawiki". My mod_proxy config looks like: ------------------------------------ ProxyPass /app1/ http://192.168.1.1/ ProxyPass /app1 http://192.168.1.1 <Location /app1/> ProxyPassReverse / </Location> <Location /mediawiki/> ProxyPassReverse /app1 </Location> ------------------------------------ Note: The Location directive is an alternative of "ProxyPassReverse /app1/ http://192.168.1.1/", see http://www.apacheweek.com/features/reverseproxies. When I access http://www.myproxy.com/app1/, the mediawiki pages are loaded well. The Browser URL is set to http://www.myproxy.com/app1/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page. Fine. But all links in the nagigation box are pointing to e.g. http://www.myproxy.com/mediawiki/index.php/Special:Recentchanges. The "/app1" is missing here, so the navigation links fail. This is because mediawiki sends always an abolute href path back. I have tried to set $wgScriptPath to "./mediawiki", "mediawiki" or "../../mediawiki". But that didn't work. Has anybody experiences with running mod_proxy towards mediawiki ? How can I set mediawiki to use relative links in HTML sources ? Any other suggestions ? Thanks in advance Ralf

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Best way to follow content changes on the Wiki?
by Marcel de Ruiter 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hi there, We have a small but growing Wiki out here and I wonder what are the most efficient ways to monitor updates and changes by other users, other than just looking at the recent changes page? Anyone having suggestions? Many thanks. Marcel --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos

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Page Templates
by Chris McIntosh 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hi, I would like to define a standard page to use for documenation on my wiki. It should look something like Header: ... Business Case: ... Notes and Progress: ... etc I tried to set this up first with a wiki template. {{ProjectTemplate|Blah|blah|blah}} However it doesn't seem to be able to give me the flexibility to create different section of markup and possible change their position at a later time. I am thinking of something like an html page where I define different sections and then can define a stylesheet at a later time. Is there anything like this in Mediawiki? Chris McIntosh

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Sessions
by B. Magilavy 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hello, I am trying to integrate Mediawiki 1.4.9 into an existing site, with one log-in for both, which I want to be the main-site log-in. The wiki is in a subdirectory of the main site. What I have done so far to integrate the two: As a query string, my main log-in sends the variables that SpecialUserLogin.php expects from its own form. (The POST requirement for processing in SpecialUserLogin.php has been disabled; the check for POST was already done in the main site log-in.); I have added the handler $wgHooks['UserLoginComplete'][] = array('addtosessions', $loginreturnto) to add the necessary main site variables to the session. [Once I get it working, I'll come back to the case of an incomplete login.] I have $wgUseMemCached = false; although I found that the session would not survive the first wiki page-change without my commenting out, in User.php, the code: function SetupSession() ... /*if( $wgSessionsInMemcached ) { require_once( 'MemcachedSessions.php' ); } else */ ... This works fine, as long as I stay in the wiki directory. However, whenever I leave the wiki directory to go back up to the main site or to look at edit help at the mediawiki site, and come back again, I have lost my wiki session. Is there a save routine and/or a session object that I cannot find, that needs modification? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you very much, Beryl Magilavy Avalon Internet email: bmagilavy(a)avalon-internet.com web: http://avalon-internet.com Telephone: +1 415-864-2089

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escaping user input
by Paul Jones 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

I am creating a custom special page to gather some information from user. I have create a table to store the data in and am trying to use the Database object to access it. This all works fine, but I need to validate the user input. I would like to use mysql_real_escape_string to avoid sql injection, but there does not seem to be any function in the Database object to escape a string. I suspect there is an easy way to do this since mediawiki accepts a lot of user input. Anyone know what the best way to go about escaping user input is within the mediawiki architecture? Thank you, Paul

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mediawiki install problem
by judi chen 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hi, I install mediawiki 1.49 on Redhat Linux 9. After I followed the instruction and installed mysql, apache and php, I got the following error msg when I tried to config the mediawiki on the web browser. Checking environment... * PHP 4.4.0: ok * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP is configured with no memory_limit. * No zlib support. * Turck MMCache not installed, can't use object caching functions * Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: /var/www/wiki * Script URI path: * Connected as root (automatic) * Connected to database... 4.1.14-standard; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements * Database wikidb1 exists * There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if updates are needed... * Granting user permissions... ...linkscc table already exists. ...hitcounter table already exists. ...querycache table already exists. ...objectcache table already exists. ...categorylinks table already exists. ...logging table already exists. ...user_rights table already exists. ...have ipb_id field in ipblocks table. ...have ipb_expiry field in ipblocks table. ...have rc_type field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_ip field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_id field in recentchanges table. ...have rc_patrolled field in recentchanges table. ...have user_real_name field in user table. ...have user_token field in user table. ...have ur_user field in user_rights table. ...have log_params field in logging table. ...have ss_total_pages field in site_stats table. ...already have interwiki table ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards ...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good. Converting links table to ID-ID... Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server. Can sommeone help, thanks Judi __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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