[Mediawiki-l] Creating some Template

[Platonides]

William van Zwanenberg wrote:
> Please help ...
> 
> Having recently installed MediaWiki, I'm trying desperately to make some
> site wide changes my Wiki's theme of "skin"  so as to change its overall
> look and feel. To be more precise about this, what I'm trying to do is
> to install a third part theme called "Nullbook" developed by somebody
> called Samat Jain. Details on his theme is available here:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:User:SamatJain/myskin.css
> 
> Having got his permission, I've simply copied the CSS code contained
> therein.
> 
> Having explained all that, let me now explain the problems I'm having
> ...
> 
> 1. I'm trying to set the MediaWiki "Myskin" theme as the default theme
> for the entire wiki but have no idea how to do this. Do I need to edit
> "localSettings.php" and if so, what actual line in the file needs to be
> edited and what code do I need to include?


Add at LocalSettings.php
$wgDefaultSkin = "myskin";


> 2. My wiki's root (which currently only exists on a development
> environment that is not network linked) is: http://localhost/eurowiki/
> I should point out however, and this is very important, the standard
> installation (which I followed religiously) of version 1.5.1 (or
> whatever is the latest version) seems to result in an automatic redirect
> being in place such that entering this URL into the location bar of a
> web browser actually redirects the page to:
> http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> Anyway the point is this. If I go to:
> http://localhost/eurowiki/MediaWiki:Myskin.css whilst logged in as an
> Administrator, I get a 403 page generated via Apache. Obviously I need
> to edit this page with the CSS code from Nullbook or I need to import it
> which I don't want to do because I don't know how long Samat is going to
> make it available.

Given your setup, the page you want is
http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Myskin.css

If you wanted to have the articles at
http://localhost/eurowiki/ArticleName instead of
http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/ArticleName you need to add a
redirect (preferably without having the mediawiki files at eurowiki folder).
See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL

> Please help as this is driving me nuts. 
> 
> I realise this MediaWiki is an open-source project but it does seem that
> with every step forward I take and with every problem I resolve, I
> encounter another 3.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Will