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

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[SwollenCranium]

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Has this mod been abandoned? bepe doesn't seem to have posted for quite some time. =/ I was hoping with the recent advanced in both MediaWiki and vB4, maybe some solution might have been found to the link via user ID idea.

I'd like to know as well. Mod author has not been active since August.

I'd like to donate $$ to this project if I find it to my liking but will not even download/install if its dead in the water.


:down:

[BRimagination]

This is the great mod, but unfortunately, there are many bugs that make using the integration quite annoying for users. For one, editing wiki constantly gives session errors which requires the edit to be submitted twice. Also, preferences require an edit to be done before it will register properly. There is also problems with formatting that the wiki uses that isn't friendly with the integrated skins. Additionally, the current integration causes problems with the forum and wiki user databases that sometime will delete users or require them to reset passwords.

I would love to use this mod more, but if there isn't an update soon, I will be forced to uninstall and find another forum wiki solution. I really hope it doesn't come to this.

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by BRimagination

This is the great mod, but unfortunately, there are many bugs that make using the integration quite annoying for users. For one, editing wiki constantly gives session errors which requires the edit to be submitted twice. Also, preferences require an edit to be done before it will register properly. There is also problems with formatting that the wiki uses that isn't friendly with the integrated skins. Additionally, the current integration causes problems with the forum and wiki user databases that sometime will delete users or require them to reset passwords.

I would love to use this mod more, but if there isn't an update soon, I will be forced to uninstall and find another forum wiki solution. I really hope it doesn't come to this.

What bugs? I have it installed and integrated on a clients site and so far it seems fine. I am in the process of adding content but I have not encountered any problems really so far.

Rich

[Cadellin]

I've been using this mod successfully since launch however now I would ideally like to add a second mediawiki installation to my site.

Can the mod support more than one installation?

[BRimagination]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

What bugs? I have it installed and integrated on a clients site and so far it seems fine. I am in the process of adding content but I have not encountered any problems really so far.

Rich

Which version of VBulletin are you using? And did you use this mod from the beginning of your site or integrated with a pre-existing. I'm using VBulletin 4.0.7 and I'm getting a lot of the issues that others have stated in the thread after the last update for this mod. Granted, my colleagues and I fixed a lot of the minor issues, but I'm still getting problems such as session loss errors and numerous formatting issues when using the integrated skins. Also the search function for the forum/wiki part for the integration does not update nor search properly.

None of these problems apparent when we disable the mod and only appear when enabled.

[NovoCiv]

I've read the manual and I can't figure this out.

#
1 of 7: Checking MediaWiki Installation

OK:
The MediaWiki Installation should be fine.
#
2 of 7: Checking vbMediaWiki Wiki Files upload

OK:
All "wiki_upload" files are in the right place.
#
3 of 7: Checking Forum Path

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/novociv1/public_html/wiki/mediawiki/includes/vbMediaWikiAuthPlugin.php on line 9

Warning: require_once(./global.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/novociv1/public_html/wiki/mediawiki/includes/vbMediaWikiAuthPlugin.php on line 22

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='/home/novociv1/public_html/wiki/mediawiki:/home/novociv1/public_html/wiki/mediawiki/includes:/home/novociv1/public_html/wiki/mediawiki/languages:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/novociv1/public_html/wiki/mediawiki/includes/vbMediaWikiAuthPlugin.php on line 22

From my localsettings.php:

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

I've tried making the install path ../forums public_html/forums forums forums/ /forums none of them seems to work. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, and the manual doesn't have any examples under "Here are some example configurations:"

Edit: When I remove the following lines from localsettings.php I can interact with the wiki perfectly fine, just not from the forums.

define( "VB_INSTALL_PATH", "<<placeholder>>" );
require_once( "$IP/includes/vbMediaWikiAuthPlugin.php" );

More things I've tried in <<placeholder>>:
http://novociv.com/forums
http://www.novociv.com/forums
http://forums.novociv.com
.../forums
../forums
./forums

[4WheelFreestyle]

Hello,

i get this failure when i try to post some articles in the wiki!

Your edit has been rejected because your client mangled the punctuation characters in the edit token. The edit has been rejected to prevent corruption of the page text. This sometimes happens when you are using a buggy web-based anonymous proxy service.

Any Ideas??

[NovoCiv]

Originally Posted by 4WheelFreestyle

Hello,

i get this failure when i try to post some articles in the wiki!




Any Ideas??

rtfm? http://bepe80.com/vbmediawiki/#rejected

[apokphp]

My layout is all screwy after a fresh install. See attached, any ideas?

That's the default vb4.0 skin too.

[TRS_Chris]

I was able to fix the formatting by:

Change :
{vb:cssfile forumbits.css,forumhome.css,forumdisplay.css,threa dlist.css}

To:
{vb:cssfile forumbits.css,forumhome.css,widgets.css,sidebar.cs s,options.css,tagcloud.css,for umdisplay.css,threadlist.css}

Then after that insert the contents of main-ltr.css into the template between <style> tags. Default location: /wiki/skins/vbmediawikiforum