[Mediawiki-l] hiding and sharing articles/namespaces to thepublic

[Richard Evans]

This is exactly the kind of discussion I was hoping for :-) Thanks everyone!

Immediate updating of the public site is not a requirement for me. A nightly 
update will do just fine. However, I am now of the opinion that the same 
database can be used for two wiki's just using two different accounts. Let 
me explain my plan:

1) My present wiki, which is in a secure "https" apache folder and protected 
from public viewing by requiring users to authenticate through my companies 
domain controller and uses the LDAP modules will remain "as is" where the 
wiki will use the standard admin read/write MySQL database account in the 
LocalSettings.php for all access to the wikidb. Thus, this, the first wiki's 
URL would be something like:
https://www.mycompany.com/wiki/index.php

2) I will create a "read-only" MySQL account for the wikidb using 
"phpMyAdmin" whose name is "wikidb_reader".

3) I will create a copy of my wiki's entire html/wiki folder in another 
"www", "public" folder on my server where the Localsettings.php file will 
access the same MySQL database except by using the "wikidb_reader" account 
which has no power to make updates to the wikidb MySQL database. Then the 
2nd wiki's URL would be like:
http://www.mycompany.com/public/wiki/index.php

4) I will restrict the public wiki (the second one) viewing to a custom skin 
which will check for a "magic word" which allows the page to load "else" it 
will display a "this page is private" message to the joe public user.

.......That's my plan. Let me know if you see a flaw in it, otherwise.... 
thanks again everyone :-)

- Rich (revansx)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Platonides" <Platonides at gmail.com>
To: <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] hiding and sharing articles/namespaces to 
thepublic


>> Dear mediawiki admin experts,
>>
>>I am being asked if specific articles and/or all of the articles in 
>>certain namespace can
> >be made to be an exception to our global restrictions on who can "see"
> the articles. A
> >specific example is the "Main Page" and any of the User's pages. So,
> does anyone know how
> >to configure a mediawiki such that "some" pages require secure browser
> authentication even
> >just to see them? If so, the ideal solution would behave such that new
> pages are created
> >inaccessible from the public by default. --- sincerest thanks all. -
> Rich (revansx)
>
> If there isn't a lot of pages, maybe you can deal with $wgWhitelistRead?
>
>
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