When I install the new files to the database it seems to cause problems and when I do a fresh clean install of the media wiki 1.16 I get a weird error associated with permissions files on the database. Originally the problem was PHP4, but found I could switch to PHP5 by activating a prompt within my control center for my website.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Christopher Eicher wrote:
I'm preping myself to install a couple of anti-spam methods to protect my wiki site (I hope). Unfortunately i've had little success installing the newest version of the wikimedia software (1.16) so i'm relying on the 1.6 version. Looking at this article here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit it says it can be
used
in versions 1.6 and up, but in the detailed information area it says it requires version 1.11 and up. What version does it need in order to
operate
correctly?
Not looking to have fort knoxx at the moment since my site is sort of
back
water, but down the road I do hope to increase my security a bit. Mostly want to prevent people from inputing naughty words probably using the $wgSpamRegex command and prevent established IP spam address from trying
to
create accounts to spam the wiki site.
Using an outdated version with security vulnerabilities is not the way to begin securing the wiki. What problems do you have upgrading? You don't have PHP 5? PHP 4 has reached its end of life and should not be used any more.
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