> Sford wiki > Sford wiki setup
First I had to get the fine folks at http://suso.org to set me up. This took a while, mainly because I told them that it was very low priority and really guys, don't go out of your way or anything if it's a PITA. And it was a bit of a PITA for them so I just kept checking in every three months or so until Jan '08. Then I had some real reasons for wanting the wiki and asked that they bump the priority. About 2 days later, it was up and running. I like suso.
At any rate, they told me to run http://wiki.geeky-boy.com/w/config/index.php and configure the wiki. Here's how I filled it out (most of them were defaulted):
MediaWiki 1.11.0 Installation ... (lots of warnings) Wiki name: Geekyinfo Contact e-mail: sford@geeky-boy.com Language: en - English No license metadata Admin username: WikiSysop Password: (yeah right, I'm going to record it here) Password confirm: (yah right, I'm going to record it hear) Shared memory caching: No caching E-mail features (global): Enabled User-to-user e-mail: Enabled E-mail notification about changes: Enabled for changes to user discussion pagefs and to pages on watchlists E-mail address authentication: Enabled Database type: MySQL Database host: mysql2.suso.org Database name: sford_wikidb DB username: sford DB password: (Still hoping, eh?) DB password confirm: (Still hoping, huh?) Superuser name: root Superuser password: (Oh all right, I'll tell you. The pass word is *BANG* URRK! *thud*) Database table prefix: gi_ Storage Engine: InnoDB Database character set: Backwards-compatible UTF-8
Then, as per instructions, I moved the config/LocalSettings.php file up a directory, set it's file mode (permissions) to 660, and moved the config directory to ~/wiki_config. Then uploaded the whirlpool galaxy pic to skins/common/images/GeekyInfo.jpg.
Then, based in part on the instructions I found at http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/ I added the following lines to the LocalSettings.php file:
$wgLogo = "skins/common/images/GeekyInfo.jpg"; # This snippet prevents new registrations from anonymous users # (Sysops can still create user accounts) $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; # $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgWhitelistRead = array( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "-", "MediaWiki:Monobook.css" );
This lets the world read the wiki, but requires an account to edit it. It also disables account creation by anybody except for admins.
Then I created the MediaWiki:Nosuchuser page. (Note that the content of that page is *not* normally displayed as a wiki page, but instead as an error message. As a result, wikitext isn't interpreted.
Then I created accounts "SfordSysop" and "Sford", gave the former admin privileges, and created user and talk pages for them. Then I created the user and talk pages for them and created the Main Page. Then, I protected the main page, the privileged user pages, and a small admin tips page I created.
I think that's about it. Oh, somewhere in there I created the Geekyinfo:About page and set a few watch pages here and there.