Configuring MediaWiki

Main article: MediaWiki

Contents 1 Changing side navigation 1.1 Adding links to navigation 2 Enable file upload 3 Add more file types to upload 3.1 Disable file extension checking 3.2 Disable mime type checking of uploaded files 4 Changing logo 5 Enable short URL 6 Enable debug mode 7 Set timezone 8 Show PHP errors

Changing side navigation

Go to page MediaWiki:Sidebar in search box

Adding links to navigation

Example:

* LINKS
** http://www.vincentkong.com|Blog
** http://gallery.vincentkong.com|Gallery
** http://www.dragonv.com|DragonV.com

Enable file upload

Modify Localsettings.php and add

$wgEnableUpdates = true;

Change permission or ownership on images directory.

Add more file types to upload

To upload more file types, edit LocalSettings.php.

$wgFileExtensions[] = 'doc';
$wgFileExtensions[] = 'pdf';

File extensions are also overwritten by $wgFileBlacklist and $wgMimeTypeBlacklist defined in includes/DefaultSettings.php

Disable file extension checking

$wgCheckFileExtensions = false;

Disable mime type checking of uploaded files

$wgVerifyMimeType = false;

Changing logo

Modify Localsettings.php and add

$wgLogo = "image url";

The logo dimension works best with 135 x 135 pixels

Enable short URL

Modify LocalSettings.php

# Virtual path. This directory MUST be different from the one used in $wgScriptPath
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1";

# Enable use of pretty URLs
$wgUsePathInfo = true;        

Modify Apache httpd.conf

Alias /wiki /opt/mediawiki/index.php

Enable debug mode

Add to bottom of LocalSettings.php

$wgDebugComments = true;
$wgDebugLogFile = "/path/to/debug.log";
$wgDebugDumpSql = true;
$wgDebugRawPage = true;
$wgDebugShowDebug = true;
$wgShowSQLErrors = true;
$wgShowExceptionDetails = true;

Reference: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Debug.2Flogging

Set timezone

Edit LocalSettings.php and add:

$wgLocaltimezone = "America/Toronto";
$wgLocalTZoffset = "-240";

$wgLocalTZoffset is represented in minutes e.g -480 is -4 hours.

Show PHP errors

Add to the bottom of LocalSettings.php

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);