Hi there,
I'm not sure if this is a bit too naive, and wether its a FAQ or a completely new stupid question.
I would like to setup a wiki on my notebook for my study and research notes and book excerpts. Puzzling around with hundreds of text files is quite unsatisfactory. Besides, having used wikipedia online for a while my way of thinking started to be wikified ;-)
Currently I work with didiwiki, but this has a poor search algorithm that's even case sensitive, it doesn't support formula etc.
I would like to have mediawiki on localhost, accessing it from localhost, and don't allow anybody else in the network to use it (guess a firewall is enough?).
I read the installation procedure, but it appears it is more for people having some network background.
I've installed the php packages etc. via apt-get (I'm using Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy, with Gnome), but I don't get that thing to work.
I'd very much appreciate some "mediawiki for idiots" instructions about how to make my personal wiki run.
Best regards, John
P.S.: I wouldn't need a complete page history. saving just the last 2-3 edits would be enough.
If you want to stop any network user to surf your personal Wiki Following command will stop anyone from accessing your HTTP port
iptables -A INPUT -s 0/0 -i eth0 -p TCP --dport 80 -j DENY
On 4/1/06, John Wiedenhoeft wiedenhoeft@gmx.net wrote:
Hi there,
I'm not sure if this is a bit too naive, and wether its a FAQ or a completely new stupid question.
I would like to setup a wiki on my notebook for my study and research notes and book excerpts. Puzzling around with hundreds of text files is quite unsatisfactory. Besides, having used wikipedia online for a while my way of thinking started to be wikified ;-)
Currently I work with didiwiki, but this has a poor search algorithm that's even case sensitive, it doesn't support formula etc.
I would like to have mediawiki on localhost, accessing it from localhost, and don't allow anybody else in the network to use it (guess a firewall is enough?).
I read the installation procedure, but it appears it is more for people having some network background.
I've installed the php packages etc. via apt-get (I'm using Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy, with Gnome), but I don't get that thing to work.
I'd very much appreciate some "mediawiki for idiots" instructions about how to make my personal wiki run.
Best regards, John
P.S.: I wouldn't need a complete page history. saving just the last 2-3 edits would be enough.
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Am Samstag, den 01.04.2006, 18:36 +0530 schrieb Amit Vyas:
If you want to stop any network user to surf your personal Wiki Following command will stop anyone from accessing your HTTP port
iptables -A INPUT -s 0/0 -i eth0 -p TCP --dport 80 -j DENY
Thanks. I have Firestarter running, there are no rules listed for incoming traffic yet (list is called "allowed connections"). So I guess that's already the case? Or is this command somewhat different (sorry for my lack of expertise, I try to catch up).
Regards, John
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:27:37 +0200 John Wiedenhoeft wiedenhoeft@gmx.net wrote:
Am Samstag, den 01.04.2006, 18:36 +0530 schrieb Amit Vyas:
If you want to stop any network user to surf your personal Wiki Following command will stop anyone from accessing your HTTP port
iptables -A INPUT -s 0/0 -i eth0 -p TCP --dport 80 -j DENY
Thanks. I have Firestarter running, there are no rules listed for incoming traffic yet (list is called "allowed connections"). So I guess that's already the case? Or is this command somewhat different (sorry for my lack of expertise, I try to catch up).
Yep, it's OK. Your configuration does not allow any incoming connections, so people won't be able to contact your webserver running your MediaWiki.
Wilinckx.
On Saturday 01 April 2006 15:06, Amit Vyas wrote:
If you want to stop any network user to surf your personal Wiki Following command will stop anyone from accessing your HTTP port
iptables -A INPUT -s 0/0 -i eth0 -p TCP --dport 80 -j DENY
In addition, you can configure the wiki to let only your local user access any pages in any way, and then configure a (probably not very secure) auto-login for localhost. At the end of your LocalSettings, try:
### User permissions: take all privileges from anonymous users $wgWhitelistRead = array( "Special:Userlogin", "-", "MediaWiki:Monobook.css" ); $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
# not secure but good enough :-) $wgHooks['AutoAuthenticate'][] = 'authenticateLocalUser'; function authenticateLocalUser($user) { global $wgServer; if ($wgServer == 'http://localhost') { $user = User::newFromName('yourusername'); } }
where you replace "yourusername" with the actual user. Similar settings also work nicely if you still want to allow yourself or some others to access your wiki remotely, which is not possible when completely blocking the wiki with a firewall.
Cheers,
Markus
On 4/1/06, John Wiedenhoeft wiedenhoeft@gmx.net wrote:
Hi there,
I'm not sure if this is a bit too naive, and wether its a FAQ or a completely new stupid question.
I would like to setup a wiki on my notebook for my study and research notes and book excerpts. Puzzling around with hundreds of text files is quite unsatisfactory. Besides, having used wikipedia online for a while my way of thinking started to be wikified ;-)
Currently I work with didiwiki, but this has a poor search algorithm that's even case sensitive, it doesn't support formula etc.
I would like to have mediawiki on localhost, accessing it from localhost, and don't allow anybody else in the network to use it (guess a firewall is enough?).
I read the installation procedure, but it appears it is more for people having some network background.
I've installed the php packages etc. via apt-get (I'm using Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy, with Gnome), but I don't get that thing to work.
I'd very much appreciate some "mediawiki for idiots" instructions about how to make my personal wiki run.
Best regards, John
P.S.: I wouldn't need a complete page history. saving just the last 2-3 edits would be enough.
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I would like to setup a wiki on my notebook for my study and research notes and book excerpts. Puzzling around with hundreds of text files is quite unsatisfactory. Besides, having used wikipedia online for a while my way of thinking started to be wikified ;-)
I encourage you to do this! I use a local wiki for about2 years now, havin about 3000 pages - and I still like it. What I do not like, is that my wiki is a bit dumb. That's why we create an extension to MediaWiki, called Semantic MediaWiki [1], which allows to use a (quite) simple syntax to state link types. This open a whole world of structuring abilities that goes beyond categories. Youn can have RDF export of your wiki and then do SPARQL queries on you knowledge. It's like creating a database foru your stuff on the fly without ever thinking about the tables. You just write on the page of "Berlin": ... is the [[captial of::Germany]] ... then, later you can query your wiki for "*, captial of, Germany" and get Berlin back. That'S quite different from a keyword or backlink search. It's like the next step. It's easy to install, too. You just install MediaWiki and then a MediaWiki extension [2]. Enjoy!
[1] about & demo: http://wiki.ontoworld.org [2] software: http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki
Kind regards,
Max Völkel -- Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org voelkel@fzi.de +49 721 9654-854 www.xam.de
First Workshop on Semantic Wikis: http://semwiki.org
many thanks for all your tips. wilinckx was so kind to chat with me for 2 days, and we managed to setup a local wiki. its phantastic, it works perfectly. BTW, will there be support for lilypond in mediawiki in the near future?.
@max: i will try as soon as my algebra exam is over. thanks for the links.
cheers, john
On 4/1/06, John Wiedenhoeft wiedenhoeft@gmx.net wrote:
I'd very much appreciate some "mediawiki for idiots" instructions about how to make my personal wiki run.
Download and install xampp. It's very easy to set up. Also run the xampp security script. After that's all done, test it by visiting localhost.
Once it works, go into your sbin and delete or chmod -x the services you don't want to use.
Move the htdocs folder to htdocs-backup. Make a new htdocs folder.
Untar mediawiki in the htdocs folder.
Point your browser to localhost, and follow the mediawiki install instructions.
To stop others from using your wiki, use the firewall suggestions and also consider requiring logins to view your wiki.
I have done this myself and it was very easy. I was frustrated with all the other tools I had to learn and this was great.
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