Comments on: customizing mediawiki for internal use

By: steve

steve — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:31:26 +0000

perfect! thanks!

By: rick roche

rick roche — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:57:53 +0000

We still use the wiki pretty heavily two and a half years later. And someone is still reading this post, as they got to my blog via the link.

By: burhan

burhan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:48:31 +0000

Thanks a million. You saved me a day.

By: brendan

brendan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:40:56 +0000

Thank you so much. This was very simple and helpful.

By: dagobart

dagobart — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:14:32 +0000

Fixed the issue of the images still getting exposed to random passers-by. See my blog post for instructions.

Hope to help.

dagobart

By: A primer to setting up Mediawiki as a private slip box « Arnold Funken on the Social Web

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:12:47 +0000

[...] So, installed Mediawiki? — aptitude install mediawiki. Then directed the browser to the wiki. You can do that by something like this: http://localhost/mediawiki/. I got the familiar Mediawiki “I’m ready to setup” page, filled in the demanded input fields, confirmed. When Mediawiki was done, I moved the LocalSettings.php around, as Mediawiki demanded. Once done with that, I applied the patch: [...]

By: Dhanu

Dhanu — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:28:22 +0000

Great… This is exactly what I was looking for :-)

By: Erinc

Erinc — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:48:15 +0000

Thank you for sharing. I was trying to install a private wiki, this helped me a lot.

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:02:44 +0000

Why the “-” in the whitelist-array?

By: Vivek

Vivek — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:03:18 +0000

Thanks a ton! This is exactly what I was looking for. I use mediawiki as a personal knowledge base and nobody but me needs to see it :)

Works beautifully too.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:25:47 +0000

This works well – MediaWiki is an amazing piece of free software isn’t it?

– David (darkchestnut.com)

By: jdb

jdb — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:42:00 +0000

Thank you!

By: tomas

tomas — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:53:36 +0000

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! It works in exactly in the way I need.

By: sandheep

sandheep — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:05:30 +0000

Is there any way to prevent access of media/image files by non-logged in users? With this solution in place, any user (logged in or not) can access media/image files so long as they have the direct URL to the file.

By: nemof

nemof — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:37:00 +0000

thanks very much, I have a private wiki I wanted to restrict access to; I figured all that I needed was probably in the mediawiki documentation but this saved me a few minutes reading!