Simon-
He beleives that you need root access to be able to
install the software
which is unfortunate since I do not have a virtual gnu/linux box... as a
result, when I run install.php it stops somewhere along the line when it
tries to create a wikiadministor in the mysql db..
Any ideas or ways to get around this?
You need to setup the database (use maintenance/tables.sql to do so), then
you can copy the files manually and adjust LocalSettings.php by hand (set
$wgDBuser and $wgDBpassword to a user that has read/write access to the
wikidb). Your wiki directory should look roughly like this:
maintenance/
style/
upload/ - create this and set write permissions if you want to enable
uploads
Article.php
DatabaseFunctions.php
DefaultSettings.php
DifferenceEngine.php
FulltextStoplist.php
GlobalFunctions.php
Interwiki.php
LanguageEn.php
Language.php
LinkCache.php
LinksUpdate.php
LocalSettings.php
LogPage.php
Namespace.php
OutputPage.php
redirect.phtml
SearchEngine.php
SearchUpdate.php
Setup.php
SiteStatsUpdate.php
SkinCologneBlue.php
SkinFramed.php
SkinNostalgia.php
Skin.php
SkinStandard.php
SpecialAllpages.php
SpecialAncientpages.php
SpecialAsksql.php
SpecialBlockip.php
SpecialBooksources.php
SpecialContributions.php
SpecialDebug.php
SpecialEmailuser.php
SpecialImagelist.php
SpecialIntl.php
SpecialIpblocklist.php
SpecialListusers.php
SpecialLockdb.php
SpecialLonelypages.php
SpecialLongpages.php
SpecialMaintenance.php
SpecialMovepage.php
SpecialNeglectedpages.php
SpecialNewpages.php
SpecialPopularpages.php
SpecialPreferences.php
SpecialRandompage.php
SpecialRecentchangeslinked.php
SpecialRecentchanges.php
SpecialShortpages.php
SpecialSpecialpages.php
SpecialStatistics.php
SpecialUndelete.php
SpecialUnlockdb.php
SpecialUnusedimages.php
SpecialUpload.php
SpecialUserlogin.php
SpecialUserlogout.php
SpecialVote.php
SpecialWantedpages.php
SpecialWatchlist.php
SpecialWhatlinkshere.php
texvc.phtml
Title.php
UpdateClasses.php
User.php
UserTalkUpdate.php
UserUpdate.php
Utf8Case.php
Version.php
ViewCountUpdate.php
wiki.phtml
Is there any possibility of including access controls
into wikipedia? I
would like to have some rather delicate documents collectively edited, but
I can not have people adding things to the list that would then make it
incorrect? (sensitive information...!) (-:
Well, we've built an encyclopedia on that very foundation ;-). But you can
give yourself and the people you trust sysop rights (UPDATE user set
user_rights='sysop' where user_name='myname';) and protect the pages you
do not want to be completely editable. We do this with Wikipedia's English
Main Page.
Regards,
Erik