Mediawiki setup

Things to edit in Localsettings.php

Restricting edits only to registered users:

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

Disable new users from registering

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

Restrict all pages but a few readable by the registered users

 $wgWhitelistRead = array ("Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "Wikipedia:Help");
 $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

Creating another wiki on the same webserver

• create a new directory (say wiki2) in the document root.
• lndir the /opt/mediawiki to the new directory,
• assign the appropriate permissions to directories and
• visit the wiki (http://localhost/wiki2) for configuration. Make sure that the database name, user and table prefix are different for this wiki.