[Mediawiki-l] Personal wiki

[Markus Krötzsch]

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 at 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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