Integration with vBulletin - vbMediaWiki Vector

vbMediaWiki Vector

Manual (don't forget to RTFM!)

Interested in doing a translation? PM me

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 What is vbMediaWiki
  • 1.2 The Problem
  • 1.3 What you get
    • 1.3.1 Single sign-on (SSO)
    • 1.3.2 Forum Layout Integration
    • 1.3.3 Search Integration
    • 1.3.4 Advanced Search
    • 1.3.5 "What's New" Integration
    • 1.3.6 "Who's Online" integration
    • 1.3.7 Permissions Settings
    • 1.3.8 User Stats
    • 1.3.9 Wiki Forum Stats *NEW*
    • 1.3.10 XML Sitemap Integration *NEW*
• 2 System Requirements
• 3 Upgrade from an older vbMediaWiki Version
• 4 Installation
  • 4.1 Prepare the Server
  • 4.2 Prepare vBulletin
    • 4.2.1 HTML Character Set
    • 4.2.2 Name Character Set
  • 4.3 Prepare MediaWiki
  • 4.4 Installing vbMediaWiki
    • 4.4.1 Modify and setup the Wiki
    • 4.4.2 Modify and setup the Forum
• 5 Settings
  • 5.1 vbMediaWiki Options
    • 5.1.1 Path
    • 5.1.2 Aliases for "Who's online"
    • 5.1.3 Wiki Database
  • 5.2 Wiki Usergroup Permissions
    • 5.2.1 Wiki Visible
    • 5.2.2 Can Read
    • 5.2.3 Can Login
    • 5.2.4 Is MediaWiki Sysop
    • 5.2.5 Is MediaWiki Bureaucrat
    • 5.2.6 Minimum Forum Posts
• 6 How-to
  • 6.1 How users change the Wiki skin
  • 6.2 How to use the Wiki bbcode for linking wiki pages
  • 6.3 How to disable magic quotes on the server
• 7 vbMediaWiki Manual and Diagnostic script
  • 7.1 The Manual
  • 7.2 The Diagnostic script
  • 7.3 The Admin script *NEW*
• 8 Troubleshooting
  • 8.1 I can edit the Wiki but cannot save anything
  • 8.2 I get "Your edit has been rejected..." when saving wiki pages
  • 8.3 The wiki editor does not look like the one on the screenshots
  • 8.4 I don't have a file called LocalSettings.php

Screenshot Look here!

Changelog Online Version, click here!

vbMediaWiki IRC Channel

I might be online... just try or use the forum
irc://irc.freenode.net/vbmediawiki
http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=vbmediawiki

Donations

Every donation is welcome and appreciated. This product is for free and it will stay free despite the fact‎ that commercial products with much less capabilities cost a lot of money. So before you spend that money on other products, try this one and feel free to send that money to me

http://www.duplexgaragen24.de

[osayidan]

Has anyone tested on 4.0.2? I can't update VB because an important mod breaks when I do.

[Rolli]

Though beta 4 runs with me, but my style tears it completely. See appendix. What can I make against it?

[jo8jo]

Hi, this Add-on is working on my vB 4.0.4 ...

One question: How can i upgrade 1.03 BETA to 1.04 Beta? Only upload the files and overwrite the old ones? Thx for help

[Bellethiel]

Upload all the files, uninstall the 1.03BETA and install the new one. Configure it and you are done.

[Rik Brown]

This mod looks great with an excellent manual in pdf format. As soon as we can upgrade our MediaWiki installation, we intend to give it a try.

Just one question: I see that the mod uses the original vb search indexing. Any chance that you will be adding support for the Sphinx Search option, too? Its so much faster!

Thanks. -- Rik

[Rik Brown]

Upgraded my MediaWiki software and did the mod install. Everything went great. I only see one problem so far. The Google ad in our header is not placed properly. It relies on style formatting defined in vb's additional.css. Any chance to address this issue?

Thanks for a great product! -- Rik

[ConfusedCartman]

I love the product, but I have to ask: How would I go about re-enabling logo display? The path to the logo in LocalSettings.php is accurate, the problem is the logo is completely removed from the display page. I'd like to re-include it, if possible.

[Mukashi]

A question bepe. How exactly does the single sign-on work here exactly?

I already have a large forum (not yet on vB4, but soon-ish) and large wiki's (tied together with the centralauth mod, giving them a single account signon).

bmgf.bulbagarden.net
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net
bulbanews.bulbagarden.net
archives.bulbagarden.net (Image Repository)

Because we have a name-change feature enabled on our forums, what we've really been looking for is something that'd allow users to associate their wiki account with their forums account ID number, rather than linking based on name. Perhaps making it so the association has to be confirmed by having them just login to it (as an existing vB3 mod we have allows them to do to associate multiple forum accounts, as we allow users in some RP's to have
accounts specifically for their characters).

If your mod can't do this kind of thing yet, is there any chance you might introduce such a feature in the future? Something like that would make things a lot easier for those of us who'd love to have integration, but have been running separate forums and wiki(s) for years.

[Rik Brown]

It appears we have a cookie problem. Our domain/server layouts are:

forums.[our domain].com
/home/www/html/subs/forums

wiki.[our domain].com
/home/www/html/subs/wiki

LocalSettings.php:
define( "VB_INSTALL_PATH", "../forums" );
require_once( "$IP/includes/vbMediaWikiAuthPlugin.php" );

vBulletin MediaWiki: Options -> Path -> http://wiki.[our domain].com

As per messages #70 and #71 in this thread, it appears it is feasible to maintain that dual sub-domain layout with the mod. In fact, the wiki displays fine (subject to the additional.css issue indicated above in message #136). However, we are getting a cookie issue on the wiki that does not allow the logins to work.

When I run the vbmediawiki diagnostic script, I get:

* Checking MediaWiki Installation: OK
MediaWiki Version: 1.16.0
* Checking vbMediaWiki Wiki Files upload: OK
vbMediaWiki Version: 1.04BETA
* Checking Forum Path:
Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/www/html/subs/wiki/vbmediawiki/index.php
Line: 38

I've cleared the cookies for wiki.[our domain].com within the Firefox tools menu. That had no effect.

Am I overlooking something?

Thanks. -- Rik

[AtomicAcidbath]

Seems to have a problem with a couple of other mods.
vbExperience and Movie of the Week (MotW) cause vbMediaWiki to display blank screen after saving additions/edits.

Anyone else running either of these mods w/vbMediaWiki successfully?