MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.
Questions tagged [mediawiki]
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NGiNX and MediaWiki rewrite regular expression
I am having some problems with regular-expression with rewrite in NGiNX.
Here is my config:
location /wiki/ {
rewrite ^/([^?]*)/([^?]*)(?:\?(.*))? /$1/index.php?title=$2&$3 last;
}
Here is the URL of the main page:…

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Nginx location override does not do what I want, opinions welcome
I have a Nginx configuration file that works for everything except one feature.
I have installed a Mediawiki, it works pretty well except at showing pictures (loading them works fine).
Whereas (sorry for castrating proper links, the site says I…

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Under DoS, how to alter MediaWiki to reject quickly any editing and history requests for anonymous users
One of our MediaWiki - based projects seems under DoS attack - unusual number of anonymous users try to edit pages and view or edit history requests. While anonymous editing is disabled on that project and these anonymous users (I assume, bots)…

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converting Lighttpd rule to apache rules
I am using mediawiki on my localhost server. my url for now is 127.0.0.1:8080/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
But i want to convert above mentioned url to wiki.127.0.0.1:8080 or something like wiki.nikunj.com if my wiki is url is www.nikunj.com/wiki
I read…

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Iptables Allow MYSQL server incoming requests
I am trying to get my new MediaWiki server to allow connections to our MySql Server and right now I cannot get my iptables firewall set up right for this.
The rule I am applying is the following
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -d 129.130.155.39 --dport…

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How to solve php warning for mediawiki running on tomcat with quercus
I set up a mediawiki (1.19.2) with quercus (4.0.25) on a Tomcat 7. The installation process went well, there were no errors or warnings, the database connection is OK and at the end of the installation process I copied the LocalSettings.php into the…

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Mediawiki create user error after migration
So I had a mediawiki installed on windows with MySQL (running on AWS RDS). I've since moved it to a debian server for various reasons, but I think I've messed up the database because of the different versions of mediawiki I have used.
The windows…

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Visiting certain pages downloads gzip file instead of displaying them
I've encountered an intermittent problem with my site. When visiting pages, the browser just downloads a .gz file instead of loading the page. Reloading the page a few times will eventually display the page correctly. The majority of the time, it…

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PHP/APC Canonicalize not working as expected
Basic Info:
APC Version 3.1.13
PHP Version 5.4.7-1~dotdeb.0
APC Host pcgamingwiki.com (li263-94) (173.255.253.94)
Server Software nginx/1.2.4
In my config, I have apc.stat = 0 and apc.Canonicalize = 1
apc.php:…

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cannot access a page in a subdirectory of /var/www
I have problem with accessing mediawiki on a server with apache2.
I installed mediawiki in /var/www/wiki directory.
I can access index.php in /var/www by typing in browser "myhostIP", but if I type
"myhostIP"/wiki then line became…

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Securing MediaWiki LocalSettings.php on nginx
I am trying to secure my LocalSettings.php. First, I found the nginx user (www-data) using top, did chown -R www-data:www-data wikidir, and then tried to do chmod 600 on wikidir/LocalSettings.php. The breaks the site, however. The site only works if…

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Mediawiki Math formula's font size is too small
I have recently upgraded Mediawiki to 1.18.0. After that we had faced issue with Math syntax(Functions). I have requested my IT team to install relevant software/package and it started working fine. I am generating some math formula's as images and…

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Apache proxypass virtual hosting for backend redirection
I have a apache proxy load balancer running. I have a domain wiki.mydomain.com registered to this lb. I am trying to make proxy redirect from wiki.mydomain.com to the backend http://192.168.1.56/mediawiki/ and below is the virtual…

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Why Won't Media Wiki Site Return Graphics To Browser and Have Correct Links Beyond 1st Page?
My question is about MediaWiki configuration in the area of returning full URLs back to a front-end Apache server. Here is the description of the problem:
If I type in my MediaWiki's URL directly into my browser -- http://MyWikiServer:4409 --…

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Trouble starting a MediaWiki
I'm thinking about developing a MediaWiki site. I want to start at localhost. I've never done any web-dev in my life. So I've installed mediawiki thru a synaptic (I'm on Kubuntu 11.10). If I understand it right I has to open index.php in localhost.…

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