Wiki Admin Help

From Nemo

Here are a few useful notes and links on administrating the NEMO wiki.

• To edit the sidebar, edit MediaWiki:Sidebar as the Admin user. See this link.
• To rename a page, see this link.
• Unable to get docx, pptx, and xlsx to work after too many hours of trying. Giving up. - All filetypes now allowed. See Disable $wgVerifyMimeType below.
• (Didn't work, see this.) How I allowed Powerpoint (pptx) files to be uploaded:
  1. on mecha as root, cd /var/www/html/wiki/
  2. in LocalSettings.php, added the following line:

     $wgFileExtensions[] = 'pptx';

  3. in includes/mime.types, changed this line

     application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt

     like so

     application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt pptx

• Backups
  • wiki root is /var/www/html/wiki (labeled as $wr below)
  • script: $wr/backup.sh
  • stored in: $wr/backup/
  • keeps only five copies
  • IGNORED by svn
  • runs as a cron job
• Some documents migrated from the old trac can be found at Historical Documents

Policies

Disable $wgVerifyMimeType

Disable $wgVerifyMimeType to allow more permissive uploading of files (without this setting, the MIME checker rejects too many standard file types such as docx). Jason 17:23, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, this is a security risk, but mimimize its impact by disallowing anonymous editing and anonymous account creation. DO NOT ENABLE anonymous editing OR anonymous account creation!!!!