Integration with vBulletin - vbMediaWiki Vector

vbMediaWiki Vector

Manual (don't forget to RTFM!)

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• 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

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[tomtom1984]

How can i add some navtabs ?

[ndahiya]

Originally Posted by tomtom1984

How can i add some navtabs ?

5. Add tab to the wiki under Settings-->Navigation Manager. Set the "Tab scripts" field to "mediawiki".

[ndahiya]

Originally Posted by tomtom1984

Hello
it's me again;-)
in new activities the wikiarticles is mapped, but if i click on tha, missing the slash in the url. Like
www.domain.de/wikixxxyyyarticle
right:
www.domain.de/wiki/xxxyyyarcticle.

How can i edit that?

are you using the latest version and are you specifying a / at the end of the wiki URL path in vb settings?

Version 1.2 (2 Feb 13):
Now, Instead of specifying the wiki path as www.SITE.com/YourWiki (no trailing slash), you now should enter it as www.SITE.com/YourWiki/index.php?title= OR www.SITE.com/ShortURL/ (with trailing slash).
* For more on mediawiki short URLs, see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache or http://shorturls.redwerks.org/ .

[bzcomputers]

I'm getting a bad path to cron.php on the main wiki page. On all other vB pages outside of the wiki the path is fine.

On the main MediaWiki page the path shows as:

http://www.xxx.com/forum/http://www.xxx.com/forum/cron.php?rand=1364440975

(domain name substituted for xxx's above)

[tomtom1984]

Originally Posted by ndahiya

5. Add tab to the wiki under Settings-->Navigation Manager. Set the "Tab scripts" field to "mediawiki".

I mean navtab men?

like http://www.innovationbyinstinct.com/vbdotorg/Navbar.png

[ndahiya]

Originally Posted by bzcomputers

I'm getting a bad path to cron.php on the main wiki page. On all other vB pages outside of the wiki the path is fine.

On the main MediaWiki page the path shows as:

http://www.xxx.com/forum/http://www.xxx.com/forum/cron.php?rand=1364440975

(domain name substituted for xxx's above)

this should not by itself be a issue. the cron would be run from other pages and no tasks should be unfinished. not sure why the problem occurs though.

[ndahiya]

Originally Posted by bzcomputers

What happens when vB users who have usernames with spaces in them try to edit on mediawiki, which from what I can tell from the information posted does not recognize spaces?

its unclear... you might like to install and test? the other option is to try and convert the vb usernames to one without a space and then set a regexp in vb to disallow space.

[CGhostGroup]

Originally Posted by ndahiya

Hi guys,

Here is an updated version to SpankMe's version (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=392) with some fixes and one that is working with VB 4.2 PL3 and Mediawiki 1.20.2 .

You can access the manual and diagnostics at www.YourSite.com/YourWiki/vbmediawiki/

** To avoid the edit permissions issue, navigate to your wiki/maintenance/ directory
and run :

 php resetUserTokens.php

Alternatively, upload the attached resetUserTokensNull.php to the wiki-maintenance directory (it only sets the tokens for users who do not have one - much faster). And set it up as a cron job every hour... This is (still) the best solution I've found so far.


Installation instructions:
1. Upload the wiki_upload files to the wiki folder, and the forum_upload files to the forums folder.
2. Import the product in vbulletin.
3. Set the variables in Settings --> Options --> vBulletin Mediawiki.
4. Grant permissions to various usergroups.
5. Add tab to the wiki under Settings-->Navigation Manager. Set the "Tab scripts" field to "mediawiki".

Release Notes:
Version 1.1 (21 Jan 13):
* The diagnostics page is fixed.
* The navigation bit (login and logout links) in the Vector skin is fixed. <-- If you use the vector skin with memcached, this improved my cache efficiency meaningfully (suspect because how the login/logout link was created for not-logged in users).

Version 1.2 (2 Feb 13):
* Upgrade instructions: upload files, upgrade product using XML file.
* Support for short URLs. You MUST update the wiki path if you install this version. The previous version works fine, except that the sitemap (and other links to the wiki) create by vbulletin refers to the old style links.
Now, Instead of specifying the wiki path as www.SITE.com/YourWiki (no trailing slash), you now should enter it as www.SITE.com/YourWiki/index.php?title= OR www.SITE.com/ShortURL/ (with trailing slash).
* For more on mediawiki short URLs, see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache or http://shorturls.redwerks.org/ .

Version 1.32 (13 Feb 13): (also changes from 1.30, 1.31):
* Upgrade instructions: upload files, upgrade product using XML file.
* Wiki submenus show in integrated skins.
* Loss of session data errors should be fixed.
* Reduced queries for logged-in users.
* Fixed issue with diagnostics page (likely linked with a apc bug).

Regards
ndahiya

Thanks, sadly I've got some problems with this because the integration works, but as Admin/User I'm not logged in, I can only see my IP as User, also the diagnostics-script stuck on "3 of 7: Checking Forum Path"

[ndahiya]

Originally Posted by CGhostGroup

Thanks, sadly I've got some problems with this because the integration works, but as Admin/User I'm not logged in, I can only see my IP as User, also the diagnostics-script stuck on "3 of 7: Checking Forum Path"

no clue really. looks like something is wrong with the installation. delete all cookies before testing and see if it reoccurs.
a remove/reinstall might help? also remember to set permissions for usergroups.

[Elenna]

Thank you very much for the update, ndahiya! My host doesn't have the new version of MySQL, so I can't run MediaWiki 1.20. I installed 1.19 and tried your updated version and it works wonderfully on vBulletin 4.20.