Archive:Wiki Service
Tardis has a a MediaWiki hosting facility.
Speak to seth for information.
MediaWiki User Accounts
Adding accounts
Thom can create new accounts.
Some notes for future reference
From... [1]. See also [2]. Log into www.reaper as root, then:
www:~# mysql -h db.reaper -u tardiswiki -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 4057 to server version: 4.0.24 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> insert into tw_user (user_name,user_real_name) values ('TestUser','Test User'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec) mysql> UPDATE tw_user SET user_password = md5( concat('25-',md5('somepassword'))) WHERE user_name='TestUser';
Where we really want the concat() call to be something like
concat((SELECT user_id FROM tw_user WHERE user_name='TestUser'),'-',md5('somepassword'))
... Need to fix this and script this for a tardis-add-wikiuser script that users can run themselves to add their user or update password. Prod people for the tardiswiki password.
Wiki Service 2.0
User:dcoles is working on a more unified Wiki hosting. Ideally we want to make it fairly easy to get a basic Wiki set up in such a way that doesn't require fluffing around with DNS, downloading a copy of MediaWiki and then setting up a new vhost for each.
- All the Wikis will be created by simlinks from the master MediaWiki dpkg installation at
/usr/share/mediawiki/
. This means all instances should remain up-to-date with the current Debian package. If needs be these can then be overidden simply by replacing the relevant file. - All the Wikis will be accessed via *.wiki.tardis.ed.ac.uk. This means that you won't need to create any new DNS entries.
- All the Wikis will share a single directory structure and Apache configuration. No need to create vhosts for each Wiki.
The rough guide to setting up a Wiki (ideally there should be a small shell script here) is:
$ mkdir -p /tardis/www/wikiservice/$WIKINAME/pages
$ ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki/* /tardis/www/wikiservice/$WIKINAME/pages/
$ rm /tardis/www/wikiservice/$WIKINAME/pages/LocalSettings.php
- -- Fix permissions?
You should now be able to run the normal MediWiki setup by browsing to http://$WIKINAME.wiki.tardis.ed.ac.uk