THCCwiki:Setup of MediaWiki

Setup of the MediaWiki software on the THCC web site.

MediaWiki Installation

Version 1.14.0

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Contents

Added favicon.ico and thcc.gif from old web site

Set $wgLogo = "";

MediaWiki config changes

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings

Lock Project namespace

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection

$wgNamespaceProtection[NS_MEDIAWIKI] = array( 'editinterface' );

Namespace alias

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Namespaces#Namespace_aliases

MediaWiki extensions

Link user accounts to phpBB

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PHPBB/Users_Integration

Core MediaWiki

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions

Problems and bugs

User name case

User names are forced to start with an uppercase letter. This is standard for Mediawiki by policy.

\includes\User.php Line 498 in function isValidUserName

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name#Case-sensitivity_of_the_first_character

Unable to create thumbnail images

Error creating thumbnail:
Warning: passthru() has been disabled for security reasons in  /home/thcczzzz/public_html/mediawiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
on line 2131