Working with the wiki

can't stay logged in

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/95406

quick solution:

mkdir /tmp/apache-php-session
chown apache:apache /tmp/apache-php-session
/etc/init.d/apache2 stop
/etc/init.d/apache2 start

Restrict reading, editing, and creation

Restrict editing and creation to only logged in user:

in file: /var/www/html/wiki/LocalSettings.php

# dthornton Disable reading by anonymous users
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

# dathornton , restrict editing to only logged in users.
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

# Anonymous users can't create pages
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;

# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

Namespaces with subpage

$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array_fill(0, 200, true);

(see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespacesWithSubpages for more on this )

Ldap Setup

installed LdapAuthentication-MW1.16-r61987.tar.gz in exentions dir:

(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication)

in /var/www/html/wiki

extensions/
extensions/LdapAuthentication
extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.i18n.php
extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.php
extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAutoAuthentication.php

The first one worked : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication/Configuration_Examples

At the begining of LocalSettings.php

# dthornton added for debugging, geeesh!
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);

at the end of LocalSettings.php

# require_once( "$IP/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAutoAuthentication.php" );
require_once( "/var/www/html/wiki/extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.php" );
$wgLDAPDebug = 999999;
$wgDebugLogGroups["ldap"] = "/tmp/wiki_ldap_debug.log" ;

$wgAuth = new LdapAuthenticationPlugin();

$wgLDAPDomainNames = array(
  'scalar'
);

$wgLDAPServerNames = array(
  'scalar' => 'sms-ldap-01'
);

$wgLDAPSearchStrings = array(
  'scalar' => 'uid=USER-NAME,ou=People,dc=sms,dc=scalar,dc=ca'
);

$wgLDAPEncryptionType = array(
  # 'scalar' => 'ssl'
  'scalar' => 'false'
);

$wgMinimalPasswordLength = 1;