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Help Pages Not Installin

thefollower — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:34:46 GMT

Just installed and on clicking the help and help with editing links i get page unavailable error 330. any ideas on this please?

I'm looking for someone who has knowledge of how to customize Vector.css

Inquisitor Ehrenstein — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:08:53 GMT

Hi, I've been trying to find documentation on how to customize the Vector skin with the MediaWiki:Vector.css page, and I haven't found anything, for a long time. :wallbash: Is there anyone who has knowledge of how to customize the Vector skin who can make the changes or explain what to do?

Specifically, I would like to change the colors of the content area, and the background area along the sidebar and the top. The colors in particular are dark gray for the content area with dark red for the background, or darker gray for the background and red for the smaller elements.

The wiki is at http://en.sturmkrieg.com/Main_Page for anyone interested in helping out. I have user custom css enabled, so you can test out all you want without affecting the whole wiki before you finish. You can post here when registering if you are interested, since I have Confirm Account enabled.

Add External Link to Sidebar

stgeorge — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:15:05 GMT

OK so I have been going around in circles on this one.

I have MediaWiki Installed in its own directory in a Joomla 1.5.x installation with a Bridge for user logins.

http://thenetweb.co.uk/tnwwiki/

So all I want to do is put a link to the domain into the Sidebar.

I have tried:

Code:

http://{{SERVERNAME}}/

[[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/]]

[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/ TNW Home]

[http://thenetweb.co.uk/ TNW Home]

TNW Home

They all appear as links in the Message Tab on Save.
All I get is the input as text in the Sidebar.

This is seriously doing my head in.

Can anyone help without all the docs links I have been going through for the past 4 hours?

Newbie: Setting Permissions and setting up MediaWiki - Various Questions

its — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:31:36 GMT

Hey Guys

So here is my scenario

1) In an large LDAP environment but the wiki is used only for a small restricted group
2) Have setup latest mediawiki
3) The deafult namespace created was "Twiki"
3) Using Extension:LDAP Authentication for authentication from an LDAP server

The current LocalSettings.php (customised part) is

PHP Code:


require_once( "$IP/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.php" );
$wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin();

# Basic LDAP Search Based Login

$wgLDAPDomainNames = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"
 );
$wgLDAPServerNames = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"=>"LDAPSERVER.com"
  );
$wgLDAPEncryptionType = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"=>"ssl"
  );
$wgLDAPSearchAttributes = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"=>"uid"
  );
$wgLDAPBaseDNs = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"=>"o=LDAPSERVER, c=com"
  );

# LDAP Group Options

$wgMinimalPasswordLength = 1;

$wgLDAPGroupUseFullDN = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"=>true
  );
$wgLDAPLowerCaseUsername = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"=>true
  );
$wgLDAPGroupObjectclass = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"=>"groupOfUniqueNames"
  );
$wgLDAPGroupAttribute = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"=>"uniquemember"
  );
$wgLDAPGroupNameAttribute = array(
 "LDAPSERVER"=>"cn"
  );

# Group based login restriction configuration options
$wgLDAPUseLDAPGroups = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"=>true
  );
$wgLDAPGroupSearchNestedGroups = array(
  "LDAPSERVER"=>true
   );
   
#Permissions - Block all anonymous users read

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

#Custom Namespace
$wgExtraNamespaces[500] = "Public";

What we want

1) Everyone for easy login to auth via ldap
2) A "Public" section and all pages under it to be READ and VIEW only by all anon users (no need to login)
3) A "Twiki" Section and all pages under it to be READ and EDIT only by certain people and they will need to login to see it (sensitive information)

First I have created pages all under main (didn't know the concept of namespaces). Now I have moved all pages under two main Namespaces according to purpose (don't know if that helps

TWIKI: ******/**/***
Public: ****/**/***

How do I implement what I want on top.. Have been hanging around chats for days and have lost my way!!!

Plz help.. in dire need to finish this and move on.. was suppose to be an easy side work!!!

How to get page source?

porton — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:23:25 GMT

How to download the wiki source for a given WikiPedia.org page?

Two boxes/table on a single line

Chimaera — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:59:07 GMT

Hi all
First up i cannot give the info suggested as i do not have access to it as i can edit only on the wiki i help out on.
I have looked but can see no mention as tho the working version etc sorry.

My problem is this
I want to make 2 boxes one after another on a single line, with the text in the first box as a TOC hyperlink.
my starting point was this

Code:

===== ''' _Title() ~ Author - [http://www.webaddy/user/username/ username] '''
 =====

but i wanted to add at the end of it a simlar formatted box 30% of the screen on the right with this in it

Code:

''' Added ~~~~~'''

but i dont want the content from this box to appear in the TOC
I have tried all sorts for hours to sort this every time i add ===== to make the link it messes the rest up
Many attempts later i came with this

Code:

::{| style="background-color:white; padding:1em; border:2px solid #8FBC8F" width="97%" class="wikitable"

| style="background-color:white; padding:1em; border:2px solid #8FBC8F" width="75%" class="wikitable" |  ''' _Title() ~ Author - [http://www.webaddy/user/username/ username]'''


| style="background-color:white; padding:1em; border:2px solid #8FBC8F" width="25%" class="wikitable" | ''' Added ~~~~~'''

|}

which sort of works but has another problem or two
for some reason (i think poss the

stuff) causes the edit hyperlink normally on the right hand side to vanish and the box seems to tall again formatting presumably?
and i need the edit link as im in and out all the time

How can i either get the edit link back?
Or is it possible to make two boxes one after each other on the same line with the first box TOC active?

Any suggestions would be good

Many thanks

Installation ERROR: PHP Warning: passthru() ... Unable to fork

mkassick — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:03:54 GMT

Hi,

I'm not an IT expert but anyway I'm trying to instal MediaWiki on a Appache Windows server and after the first setup screen, where the language is set, I get this message:
PHP Warning: passthru() [function.passthru]: Unable to fork [""C:\Windows\system32\convert.exe&quo t; -version"] in E:\home\mydomain\Web\w\includes\GlobalFunctions.ph p on line 2854 I've already read the documentation and it seems to be insufficient permissions to run an external program ($cmd)????

Anyone can help?

Thanks.

MediaWiki 1.19.0
PHP 5.2
MySQL 5.1
Windows Server 2008

Custom toolbox breaks in 1.18

JosephM — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:51:47 GMT

Server info:
MW:1.18.1
PHP:5.3.6 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.5.16

Working on upgrading from 1.15 to 1.18. One of the issues occurring is that the Toolbox, which we had customized using samples on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual...8JavaScript.29

In 1.15 our customizations worked fine, no issues. Upgrading to 1.18 however the customizations disappear from the toolbox.

Our customization modifies the toolbox based on a user group. We have the conditional set such that:

if (isArray(wgUserGroups)) {
if (wgUserGroups.Contains('servicenow')) {
addOnloadHook(CustomizeModificationsOfSidebar);
}
}

I have isolated the conditional as the failing element. Commenting out the conditional elements and leaving the function call works perfectly. Did some change to how mediawiki handles javascript occur in 1.18 that would cause this issue? Any ideas on resolution?

Isn't Media Wiki search function dumb?

ibro — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:37:41 GMT

Dumb search function in Media wiki.
Just stupid and not helpful.

Am I wrong?

Limite the pages to view for a customer

karthickk02 — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:58:07 GMT

I have installed MediaWiki 1.19.0 and created lot of pages. Currently I have two users including the admin user. I want to hide few pages from another user to view, edit, delete and etc.

How can I do this?

installation does nothing

sajaki — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:59:46 GMT

Hi

i downloaded mediawiki 1.19 and uploaded it on my host. Clicking on install does nothing. Reloading page gives the message "LocalSettings.php not found.Please complete the installation and download LocalSettings.php." When i click on "Please complete the installation" the page just reloads.

* Version : 1.19
* Mysql 5
* PHP 5.3.10
* Apache
* Operating system : Linux srv83 3.0.9-vs2.3.1-20111121-96c063c #1 SMP Mon Nov 21 09:54:21 UTC 2011 x86_64
* Suhosin Patch 0.9.10
note : php error reporting is on.

Things i tried : set chmod folder mw_config to 777.

Please help - extensions

jhodgson4 — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:57:24 GMT

Hi

I am trying to install 2 new extensions. I have never used this system before but the install was very simple and I have followed the directions to the T. Nothing is showing up in special:version and don't know where to troubleshoot next? The files are unzipped and the lines are in localsettings.php

Hope you can help

MediaWiki 1.17.0
PHP 5.2.5 (apache2handler)
MySQL 5.0.92-community

EmbedImg Extension don't work in a Template

Rodervision — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:01:32 GMT

I have installed the EmbedImg Extension and work well in all parts of my website.

The only problem is when I pass the URL of external image by a parameter of a Template.

If I insert the URL with Parameter Template in this way :

{{{ImageLocation}}}

the extension give me the error "Error: bad URI in !"

Someone can help me ?
Thank You

Remove Advanced Search Box from MediaWiki

toaksie — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:33:58 GMT

I do not run a large wiki and the advanced search functionality (I believe it's the power-search box) that allows searching namespaces, etc is not required. It is also confusing for users, however I can't seem to find any details on how to remove it. Essentially I just don't want it showing up in the search results especially as it appears before the results that are found. Does anyone know how I can deactivate it or hide it from users performing basic searches so that they are served only the results from their query and not the advanced search box? Thanks for your help.

Tom

Piped Link to File type not working as expected

finhook — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:15:31 GMT

Hi ,

I have a table of file links to some open office documents. [[File:MyFile.odt| different text]].
When I try this I always get "File:MyFile.odt".

If I use "Media:" instead of "File:" then I can see "different text" just like I want. However I want the link to actually go to the "File:" page so new versions can be uploaded. With "Media:" it always opens the specific media. How can I use the piped link and have it go to the actual File page?

Thanks,
-Finhook