MontCo MediaWiki Installation
From MontCo MediaWiki
The MontCo MediaWiki platform is a standard WIMP (Windows, IIS, mySQL, PHP) installation following the Windows Installation Guide with a few notable differences:
- You MUST use the PHP ISAPI installation. The recommended PHP implementation is CGI. However, the CGI version has bugs which will result in a weird error somewhat randomly ("CGI Error: The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers") when you try to use url scripting.
- Namespace File Protection
- Discussion Threading
- Special:Version
- TableSort - The version of wikibits.js (found in skins/commons) published by MediaWiki has a flaw that does not work (at least in the MontCo Wiki's). You will have to fix that portion (which comes from the original author), or copy the olderversion found in MediaWiki.
- (optional) Copy the removeUnusedBadAccounts programs into the maintenance directory. This utility is used to delete all unauthenticated users who have not committed some kind of edit to date. Also removes from any groups if permission was accidently granted.
For the Standard Installation using a new version from scratch, you will have to:
- Add the following to the bottom of localsettings.php
require_once("$IP/extensions/ITSLocal.php"); - Copy all the extensions/
- Copy skins/common/images/Montco*.png
- Copy favicon
- Copy all the setups
- Copy all the required Templates
