Site Configuration

Server Software

DVRpedia runs on MediaWiki Version 1.11.0. This page contains notes for the administrator to help manage configuration changes and upgrades.

Changes to LocalSetting.php

Image uploads:

$wgEnableUploads       = true;

Short URL:

## For more information on customizing the URLs please see:
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL
$wgArticlePath = "/$1";

To Fix Short URL Problem in MediaWiki version 1.11.0:

$wgUsePathInfo = false;

Replace:

## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic
## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook':
$wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook';

With:

#rilgreay_01 MediaWiki Skin Info; http://demo.rilnet.org/wiki/RilGrey_01
$wgDefaultSkin = 'rilgrey_01';
$wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins";
$wgStyleDirectory = "$IP/skins";
$wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/DVRpedia.png";

Plugins

# ConfirmEdit Extension - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
require_once( "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php" );
# For Fancy Captcha only:
# require_once( "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/FancyCaptcha.php" );

# New User Notification Extension - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:New_User_Email_Notification
require_once( 'extensions/NewUserNotif.php' );
$wgNewUserNotifEmailTargets = array("cb@carltonbale.com");

#Magpirss for XFeed RSS Feed Aggregator Extension - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55691
#Magpirss version magpierss-0.72 	November 5, 2005
#XFeed RSS Feed Aggregator Extension - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFeed_-_RSS_Feed_Aggregator 
#XFeed RSS Version 2007-02-02
require_once( 'extensions/XFeeds.php' );

EmbedVideo Extension

#Alternate Video embedding extension that is not currently used: VideoFlash http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlash
#Embed Video Extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo
require_once('extensions/EmbedVideo.php');

Upgrading

The /config directory auto-forwards to the DirectAdmin control panel. To perform a software upgrade, the admin must download the latest version of MediaWiki, upload the tar.gz file to the server, and extract the file. Copy the LocalSettings.php file to LocalSettings.old.php. Create a /config2 directory and copy the files from the /config directory into the config2 directory. Navigate to the /config2/index.php directory. Run the installer, entering appropriate settings, run the installer. Copy the the LocalSettings.php file from the /config directory to the root directory. Add back appropriate settings from the old file to the new one.