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Add a PmWiki Site

AdminNotes | Add a PmWiki site

On the UJ Physics server we use PmWiki, and multiple sites with a single software install. This makes it easier to keep the software (which is not a standard SL RPM) updated even if the wikis become many more.

Procedure to add a PmWiki Site

You start by making a copy of the template wiki site, and adjusting permissions (because uploads and wiki.d must be writable by Apache) 

$ cd /WWW/wiki
$ cp -r AAA_ExampleWiki yoursite
$ sudo ./fixPerm.sh

Then you tell Apache where to find the new Wiki: in /etc/httpd/conf.d/AA_wiki.conf add an alias line, like 

Alias /wiki/yoursite          /WWW/wiki/yoursite/index.php

and update Apache: sudo /sbin/service httpd reload

Then edit /WWW/wiki/yoursite/local/config.php to set ScriptUrl and title 

$title = "My synchrotron wiki";
$ScriptUrl = "/wiki/yoursite";

See notes in the config.php file for setting a site admin password. If unset, it gets the global wiki admin password.

And then enjoy your new wiki!

Please read about PmWiki.

Procedure to add User Authentication

You can configure your wiki site to use, instead of the normal single password for everybody, separate users, each with his own password. Users can also belong to groups, and user groups can be given specific rights (Attributes) to specific pages (using action=attr) or page groups (using PageGroup/GroupAttributes?action=attr). See AuthUser for more information.

Please note that an admin password (set in config.php), with a blank username, will always be able to override all Attributes.

Procedure:

  • add include_once("$FarmD/scripts/authuser.php"); in your config.php
  • login with a blank username and the admin password
  • add users, passwords and groups by editing the page wiki/yoursite/Site/AuthUser
    • make sure you have at least one person in the @admin group
  • configure wiki/yoursite/Site/AuthUser?action=attr putting @admin in each field including Read
  • configure wiki/yoursite/Site/GroupAttributes?action=attr putting @admin in each field except Read
  • you may change config.php to directly use the new groups. It's anyway nice to keep the old password commented in case something goes wrong in Site/AuthUser 
#$DefaultPasswords['admin']='$1$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$DefaultPasswords['admin']="@admin";
$DefaultPasswords['attr']="@admin";
$DefaultPasswords['edit']=array("@admin","@myeditors");
$DefaultPasswords['upload']=array("@admin","@myeditors");
  • you can configure Site/PageActions to hide the Edit link from those who did not login, for example: 
* %item rel=nofollow class=print accesskey='$[ak_print]'%[[{$FullName}?action=print | $[Print] ]]
* %item class=browse accesskey='$[ak_view]'%[[{$FullName} | $[View] ]]
* %item rel=nofollow class=diff accesskey='$[ak_history]'%[[{$FullName}?action=diff | $[History] ]]
(:if !authid:)
* %item rel=nofollow class=login accesskey='$[ak_login]'%[[{$FullName}?action=login | $[Login] ]]
(:if auth edit:)
* %item rel=nofollow class=edit accesskey='$[ak_edit]'%[[{$FullName}?action=edit | $[Edit] ]]
* %item rel=nofollow class=rename accesskey='$[ak_edit]'%[[{$FullName}?action=rename | $[Rename] ]]
* %item rel=nofollow class=links accesskey='$[ak_edit]'%[[{$FullName}?action=links | $[Links] ]]
(:if auth upload:)
* %item rel=nofollow class=upload accesskey='$[ak_attach]'%[[{$FullName}?action=upload | $[Attach] ]]
(:if auth attr:)
* %item rel=nofollow class=attr accesskey='$[ak_Attr]'%[[{$FullName}?action=attr | $[Attributes] ]]
(:if authid:)
* %item rel=nofollow class=logout accesskey='$[ak_logout]'%[[{$FullName}?action=logout | $[Logout] ]]
(:if:)

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