I've tried all kinds of permissions from 777 on down with no luck. It's very strange. However, I Wasn't able to change the line as easy as that-- when I set the string to "" I got the text <portal> instead of the nothing I expected :)
Perhaps I'm not understanding the interaction between the Language.php file and the Special:Allmessages links. If I set the portal to "" in the Language file, nothing happened. If I then set MediaWiki:Portal (or whatever it's called-- I can't look right now) to nothing I would get "<portal>"-- or I could leave the Language.php file alone and rename the MediaWiki:Portal to anything I wanted and that would work-- except if I made it blank, the link was still there saying "Community Portal"
Quite vexing!
c
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:57:09 +0000, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:39:03 -0900, Chris Lott chris.lott@gmail.com wrote:
I thought I would get tricky and strip the lines out of the xhtml_slim.pt template for the Community Portal in the navigation section. Once I did that, I started getting a stream error (permissions problem):
Hm, have you accidentally changed the file's permission bits? Otherwise, I've no idea.
But I wanted to point out that, once you get the template working again, there's an easier way to do this anyway: setting the name of the portal link to be empty [""] should hide it completely. I'm afraid I don't have a 1.3 install working to play with, but although languages/Language.php suggests you do it there, I suspect you actually need to do it in the database by blanking the [[MediaWiki:Portal]] article in the wiki.
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]