Comments for 23rd World http://23rdworld.com Home of Seattle-based web site designer and blog consultant, Mahalie Pech. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:11:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on DRAFT: How To Make Your MediaWiki Private by pete http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3792 pete Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:25:09 +0000 http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3792 mahalie as always the internet community is always a great resource! I managed to add your changes simply and easily to a fresh install of mediawiki. One thing I'm not sure I understand - does this also prevent searchbots from browsing/caching content? Once a user has logged in and a page is rendered, it is only available to that user in their browser session, correct? So applying any further Apache mods is unnessary.... Thnxs again mahalie

as always the internet community is always a great resource! I managed to add your changes simply and easily to a fresh install of mediawiki. One thing I’m not sure I understand - does this also prevent searchbots from browsing/caching content?
Once a user has logged in and a page is rendered, it is only available to that user in their browser session, correct? So applying any further Apache mods is unnessary….

Thnxs again

]]> Comment on DRAFT: How To Make Your MediaWiki Private by Katrine http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3791 Katrine Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:57:29 +0000 http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3791 Just for the record, we've set up a private mediawiki for documentation in our IT-departement, wich is integrated with Microsoft Active Directory. So we use our windows server username/password for logging in to the wiki... Not sure if you use Microsoft AD, but I am almost certain that LDAP can be used with MediaWiki... Nice work however, thanks for the input... Just for the record, we’ve set up a private mediawiki for documentation in our IT-departement, wich is integrated with Microsoft Active Directory. So we use our windows server username/password for logging in to the wiki… Not sure if you use Microsoft AD, but I am almost certain that LDAP can be used with MediaWiki…

Nice work however, thanks for the input…

]]> Comment on DRAFT: How To Make Your MediaWiki Private by mahalie http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3790 mahalie Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:02:15 +0000 http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3790 @Marc - probably the simplest is to do this through your FTP client (I use FileZilla) - go to the directory of the file, right click it and you can change the file permissions to 600 or uncheck everything except read/write for the Owner only. If you work on *nix servers a lot you may find it easier to do this via the command line (you can ssh in using puTTy or whatevs) and chmod is the command you enter. You may want to check out the <a href="http://wiki.dreamhost.com/CHMOD" rel="nofollow">Chmod</a> page on the Dreamhost wiki for more info. @Marc - probably the simplest is to do this through your FTP client (I use FileZilla) - go to the directory of the file, right click it and you can change the file permissions to 600 or uncheck everything except read/write for the Owner only.

If you work on *nix servers a lot you may find it easier to do this via the command line (you can ssh in using puTTy or whatevs) and chmod is the command you enter.

You may want to check out the Chmod page on the Dreamhost wiki for more info.

]]> Comment on DRAFT: How To Make Your MediaWiki Private by Dan Z http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3789 Dan Z Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:56:16 +0000 http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3789 Awesome tutorial, thanks Mahalie. This was the quick and dirty I needed on using MediaWiki in a private configuration to tip the scales from installing Twiki to MediaWiki. Thanks! Awesome tutorial, thanks Mahalie. This was the quick and dirty I needed on using MediaWiki in a private configuration to tip the scales from installing Twiki to MediaWiki. Thanks!

]]> Comment on DRAFT: How To Make Your MediaWiki Private by Marc B http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3788 Marc B Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:19:12 +0000 http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3788 What does Chmod LocalSettings to 600 mean? I have a wiki on a subdomain that I want to make private, and I think I understand the rest of the install.... What does Chmod LocalSettings to 600 mean?

I have a wiki on a subdomain that I want to make private, and I think I understand the rest of the install….

]]> Comment on Installing Plone 3.0 on Ubuntu 6.06 by Dread Knight http://23rdworld.com/2007/11/02/installing-plone-30-on-ubuntu-606/#comment-3779 Dread Knight Sat, 17 May 2008 11:51:01 +0000 http://23rdworld.com/2007/11/02/installing-plone-30-on-ubuntu-606/#comment-3779 @mahalie: Thanks man! That did it :-) Cheers! @mahalie: Thanks man! That did it :-) Cheers!

]]> Comment on DRAFT: How To Make Your MediaWiki Private by mahalie http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3778 mahalie Sat, 17 May 2008 00:39:43 +0000 http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3778 Evan, to add a user manually go to http://yourwikidomain.com/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup You'll enter a password for the new user and if you put in an email address they will get a confirmation but no password so you'll want to email them yourself and let them know what that is. I'm sure this is all configurable but I haven't bothered with it yet as I gave only 2 other people access to mine. To find that link again later click 'Special Pages' and go to 'Log in / create account'. Evan, to add a user manually go to http://yourwikidomain.com/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup

You’ll enter a password for the new user and if you put in an email address they will get a confirmation but no password so you’ll want to email them yourself and let them know what that is. I’m sure this is all configurable but I haven’t bothered with it yet as I gave only 2 other people access to mine.

To find that link again later click ‘Special Pages’ and go to ‘Log in / create account’.

]]> Comment on Installing Plone 3.0 on Ubuntu 6.06 by mahalie http://23rdworld.com/2007/11/02/installing-plone-30-on-ubuntu-606/#comment-3777 mahalie Sat, 17 May 2008 00:25:49 +0000 http://23rdworld.com/2007/11/02/installing-plone-30-on-ubuntu-606/#comment-3777 @Dread Knight - first make sure you're in the right directory, then if "sudo ./install.sh" does not work you may have to type "sh install.sh". if that doesn't work then try "sh ./install.sh" I'm fairly new to *nix myself, you might hit up the Ubuntu forums for how to run shell scripts if the above doesn't help. @Dread Knight - first make sure you’re in the right directory, then if “sudo ./install.sh” does not work you may have to type “sh install.sh”. if that doesn’t work then try “sh ./install.sh”

I’m fairly new to *nix myself, you might hit up the Ubuntu forums for how to run shell scripts if the above doesn’t help.

]]> Comment on DRAFT: How To Make Your MediaWiki Private by 23rd World » Google Doctype Screams “Fork ME!” http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3776 23rd World » Google Doctype Screams “Fork ME!” Fri, 16 May 2008 23:28:35 +0000 http://23rdworld.com/2007/03/30/how-to-make-your-mediawiki-private/#comment-3776 [...] My own private wiki, largely comprised of web development documentation for my own projects, code snippits and links to online resources, is invaluable to me - so the potential benefits of an open wiki of this nature is obvious and I’ve often wondered why there isn’t one (with critical mass) out there already. Certainly this project, or at least the idea of it, could be an invaluable tool to professional web designers and client-side developers. Some take-aways: [...] […] My own private wiki, largely comprised of web development documentation for my own projects, code snippits and links to online resources, is invaluable to me - so the potential benefits of an open wiki of this nature is obvious and I’ve often wondered why there isn’t one (with critical mass) out there already. Certainly this project, or at least the idea of it, could be an invaluable tool to professional web designers and client-side developers. Some take-aways: […]

]]> Comment on Installing Plone 3.0 on Ubuntu 6.06 by Dread Knight http://23rdworld.com/2007/11/02/installing-plone-30-on-ubuntu-606/#comment-3775 Dread Knight Fri, 16 May 2008 18:58:35 +0000 http://23rdworld.com/2007/11/02/installing-plone-30-on-ubuntu-606/#comment-3775 I'm on Kubuntu Hardy with Kde 4.0.4 I'm trying to install 3.1.1 unified installer: dread@Freezing-Moon:~/Plone-3.1$ sudo ./install.sh standalone sudo: ./install.sh: command not found WTF?! need help :-\ I’m on Kubuntu Hardy with Kde 4.0.4

I’m trying to install 3.1.1 unified installer:

dread@Freezing-Moon:~/Plone-3.1$ sudo ./install.sh standalone
sudo: ./install.sh: command not found

WTF?! need help :-\

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