Has anyone else purchased vbwiki pro and not received the download information within the 20mins (as stated on their website)?

Hello Jon, I replied to your e-mail. The download information is sent by an automated process (within 5 minutes of the order being received). Once in a while we see a customer who didn't receive the e-mail because it was stopped by a spam filter or some other similar cause. :confused:

In any event, I resent the access instructions to you. Thanks.

Thanks :)

i have an error and the wiki doesnt use the forum login

i ran the tools and it says it cannot find my absolute forum path. I am running php 4.4, MediaWiki 1.6.8, vbulletin 3.6.4, vbWiki standard

any ideas would be appreciated

Hi, make sure that vbWiki is installed as a subdirectory of your forums, and that in vbWiki_Init.php the forum path is using the default value of

dirname(__FILE__) . '/..'

If you'd like PM me a link to your wiki/forum, and I'll take a look.

Thanks.

Would I be able to like, have my forums on www.myforums.com and host the wiki on www.mywiki.com and have vb work with it that way?

The trick with different domains is the cookie tunneling to share sessions and login persistence between the two domains..

The standard version doesn't have this feature included. However, you could accomplish the same results with the standard version by using the mod created by thincom2000 found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=139272

what permission do I give my usergroups to start new pages? I dont understand how all that works.

vbWiki Standard will allow you to map vBulletin's usergroups to wiki usergroups.

But then you need to control the wiki usergroups permissions manually, per MediaWiki's usergroup (roles) functionality. (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:...g_group_rights)

Sorry for asking kind of offtopic ... in the requirements it's said, that you can run wikimedia under PHP version 4 ... but this doesn't work for me? the wiki installation routine tells me, that PHP5 is required and it's aborting.

Can somebody please give me a hint, where I can look for a suitable mediawiki version or what else I could do instead?

Need this stuff urgently :D

I'd suggest upgrading to php 5.2.x. From what I've read it'll give you a performance boost over php 4 anyway...

Otherwise you can run mediawiki 1.6.8 with php 4

Question, which it's probably a dumb question but the only dumb question I know is the one not asked :) ... if we add this hack to our current forums it's not going to make our boards look like a wiki page is it (the article tab and all that at the top) ? Or will our forum stay the same and we will just be adding a link to the wiki stuff?

If someone could give me a link to their site to see an actual working environment, rather than the demo, that would be great! Thanks!

:)

As kontrabass mentions, if you want to run the latest version of MediaWiki, you need to upgrade your PHP installation to version 5+.

However, if your host only has PHP 4 available (or you do not want to upgrade to PHP5) then you can install MediaWiki 1.6.9 which does not require PHP5.

vbWiki Standard doesn't change the way your forum or wiki looks. It works behind the scenes to implement the single-login functionality.

The Pro version let's you use your forums style/design on your wiki. But, again, it would not change your forums' look or design.

In this thread there are links to two sites using vbWiki Standard: http://www.nuhit.com/forums/vbwiki/1...bwiki-pro.html

You totally lost me with that info there =)

Looking at that link, everything should be ready to go during the default install. Yet users, nor myself are able to create a new page?

:) Are you getting an error? Or does it say that you don't have rights to edit?

The default MediaWiki installation lets everybody (registered and unregistered) edit and create pages.

Hi Elfmage,

Thanks for the mod. :) Got it working fine in that the cross log in works but when it comes to mapping VB usergroups to Wiki usergroups I'm not seeing anything under my VB usergroup when editing it to allow me to do this!

I'm using VB 3.6.4
MediaWiki 1.6.9

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer :)

hmm.. this hasn't worked for me

I have a site

wiki.site.com and my forum is forum.site.com

I did as the "instrucrtions" say, and now my wiki.site.com is blank.

Myself nor my users have any type of "add new page" button anywhere?

Many thanks for your help :) . As my host only runs PHP4, will try this out with a lower wiki-version.

Glad you helped me :)

I may have got this wrong, but from what I've found out so far if you search for a topic and it doesn't exist you can click the 'create new page' link on the returned page and create a new topic from there. Like I said, I may be wrong as I'm new to this Wiki thing :)

This looks brilliant!

Does mediawiki have it's own SEO for keywords and URL rewrites? Or would I have to try and use VBSEO with it?

http://www.mwusers.com here ya go


I'm still looking for a clear ( how to ) set this up..

your instructions only say to make a folder, upload the files and edit the localsettings.php
this did nothing for me..

thanks

Hi Goatpod,

User group mapping in the Standard version is done through vbWiki_Init.php.

For instance, add and customize the following to the 'custom settings' section in vbWiki_Init.php:

Thanks.

Hi Loco.M,

A blank page upon installing vbWiki is often caused by a path not being 100% correct.

Try running vbWiki's Diagnostic Tools, to help identify what's going on. Refer to the 'Troubleshooting' section at the top of this page (I just added the instructions there.. .:rolleyes:)

If the cause is not obvious, send me a PM with the Diagnostic Tools results.

BTW, since your forum and wiki are on two different sub-domains, you may need to adjust the wiki and forum cookie settings so that sessions can be shared between the two systems. Refer to the first entry in this FAQ: http://www.nuhit.com/faq/59/

Try the steps above, and PM with any questions. You can also PM me a link to your site, and I'll take a look.

Thanks.

Hi Necrosaro420,

As Goatpod indicates, MediaWiki doesn't have a 'Add new page' per se.

You can create new pages by one of two ways:
1) Search for a topic, and if it doesn't exist, then the user is given the option to create one with the title for which the search was done.

2) You can add links to non-existing pages in an article, which then are shown on a different color, when a user clicks on one of these links, he/she is taken to that page's editing mode.

For instance, I have seen MediaWiki installations where they have a 'ToDo' list on the home page (or some other page), and then users keep adding 'titles' that they think would be needed for the wiki.

And then other users come in, see where they can/want to contribute, and edit/create the corresponding page.

PS...I have the PRO version - and it is great.

I've just set up my mediawiki / vbWiki integration, but am hitting an odd problem when NOT logged into Vbulletin.

Basically, the page just loads with loads of garbage....

Any ideas what is causing this?

Hi, this usually happens when your board is set to not allow guests to access it.

vbWiki requires that guests be allowed to at least visit your forum's home page (FORUMHOME), so that the MediaWiki - vBulletin bridge can be established.

Is this the case in your site?

Ignore previous post before edit :)

Fixed and working fine now

Thanks alot


Can be found at http://www.euro-chimaera.co.uk/wiki/

:) Glad you figured it out.

Yes.. Well spotted.. Guests are not allowed any access into the site.

Is there any way around this?, as I'm not going to be able to grant any guest access without registering.

I think we implemented a workaround in the latest version, but we haven't gotten a chance to upload it yet.

Try doing the following:

Open LocalSettings.php in your MediaWiki directory, and find these lines of code:

And replace them for this:

Then vbWiki_Init.php, and find this line:

And add the following code right after it:

I haven't tested this, but it should work... :rolleyes:

I'll give it a try in a few...

That ALMOST works, but seems to mess up the paths to all the graphics used on the login page.

ie: Perhaps it would just be better to redirect to the normal forum login page if the user is not registered?

:) Yes, what happens is that the no permission message is shown from the wiki's path, so all relative images/links would point to the incorrect location.

An alternate solution is to add a plugin (Admin CP > Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager > Add New Plugin) for the hook named error_nopermission.

In this plugin, add the following PHP code:

What this does is that whenever a no permission error will be shown to the user from the wiki, the user gets redirected to the forums' home page.

This will only happen in the case you describe where guests are not given view access to the forum.

That works a treat, thanks ElfMage!

I'm getting really frustrated trying to remove the "Discussion" tab from each page though.... Doesn't seem logical having that there, as this would distract from the forum discussions themselves.

errrr I feel enormously stupid having to ask this.. however.. It doesn't figure for me.

in the file "vbWiki-1.0.2 RC3.zip" there is NO such thing as a "LocalSettings.php" file.

so; I cannot find the place where to put the absolute dir into.

is this changed or was my zip corrupt ? (or something else?)

greetings, Wouter

euhw.. wait just a second. does this thing just provide the link-up between mediawiki and your vB? ..

(in that case: d?h. i'll get my coat...)


[edit]somewhat more serious, please include a clear link to the MediaWiki in your announcement message (preferably near the top :) ) [/edit]

Glad it worked.

You can hide the 'Discussion' Tab using CSS (this is not an elegant solution, but it is simple and works.. :rolleyes:). If you want to go this route let me know...

Alternatives include modifying MW core file, or creating a MW extension.

:D

Yes, indeed, the LocalSettings.php refers to MediaWiki's configuration file.


Valid point. Just changed the message on top. Added link to MediaWiki's official download site. Thanks.