Wiki Setup

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Steps to Set Up Wiki

  1. Created as a addon domain of looseletters.ca in home/public_html folder
  2. Used oneclick install in CPanel to install MediaWiki as MVR Designs
  3. Added name servers to Domain mvrdesigns.ca at rebel.ca (took 24 hours to propagate thru system)
  4. Stylesheets would not load. add https: to local_settings.php to get site to load securely with Https.


Local_settings.php

Parameters changed from Default

The protocol and server name to use in fully-qualified URLs

$wgServer = "https://mvrdesigns.ca";

To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory is writable, then set this to true:

$wgEnableUploads = true;

Things to do

  1. Setup user login
  2. prevent anonymous users from viewing site
  3. add robots.txt file