Integration with vBulletin - vbWiki Standard - vBulletin+MediaWiki integration

Update:

9/28/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC5 is now available for download. This version adds compatibility with MW 1.11.0+

5/17/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC4 is now available for download. This version is compatible with MW 1.10.0+ and vBulletin 3.6.6+

1/21/2007: vbWiki Std v1.0.2 RC3 is now available for download. This version fixes the 'session error' that used to happen on some installations of MediaWiki 1.9.x.

Description:

vbWiki Standard is the lite version of vbWiki Pro. vbWiki Standard allows the integration of vBulletin and MediaWiki user authentication.

(vbWiki Pro is a commercial product that, in addition to the functionality found in vbWiki Standard, provides full skin integration, enhanced user management, Admin CP, editing of wiki skin in vBulletin's Style Manager, among other features.)

Why should you add a wiki to your forums?

Forums are great for community building with their high level of interactivity. Successful forums have hundreds or thousand of concurrent users creating and replying to threads.

However due to this very reason the more your forums grow the more "collective knowledge" is scattered throughout the thousands (or hundreds or millions) of threads in your forums. Making it difficult for users to find and use.

A wiki is not that good at community building, but it is a great medium to centralize this 'collective knowledge'. Enabling you to create an 'ecosystem of information' (quoting pipin ) maintained and contributed by your users.

The idea behind vbWiki (both Standard and Pro) is to enable the seamless integration between these two packages (vBulletin and MediaWiki) side-by-side in your community. You (and your users and community) get the best of both worlds.

Or so the theory goes...

Features:

• Single sign-on for vBulletin and MediaWiki (users log in only once)
• Supports mapping of vBulletin usergroups to MediaWiki user roles
• Users viewing wiki pages are shown in vBulletin's "What's going on?" section (both guests and registered users)
• Supports auto-authentication, users who choose to be "remembered" are logged in upon visiting the site to both vBulletin and MediaWiki.

Installation:

These installation instructions do not apply to vbWiki Pro. Refer to vbWiki Pro installation instructions for more information.

MediaWiki and vBulletin must be installed and properly working before installing vbWiki. MediaWiki can be downloaded here.

• Create a new directory in your forums directory named vbWiki.
• Upload the content of the installation package to this new directory.
• Rename the file vbWiki_Init.php-dist to vbWiki_Init.php
• Open the file LocalSettings.php found in your MediaWiki directory in a text editor and at the very end find the following line and remove it if present:

PHP Code:

?> 


• Add the following code at the end of the file (entering the correct directory path):

PHP Code:

require_once "/absolute/path/to/your/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php"; 


Troubleshooting:

• Last installation step: Click Mark as Installed..

If you run into any trouble installing vbWiki (blank page, logins not working, etc.), follow these instructions to temporarily turn on vbWiki's Diagnostic Tools.

Open vbWiki_Init.php (or vbWikiPro_Init.php) and find this line:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = false; 


And change it for this:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = true; 


Navigate to the wiki home page, and see the results.

Changes:

• 0 vBulletin files to Edit
• 1 MediaWiki file to Edit
• 10 vbWiki Files to Upload

Requirements:

• vBulletin v3.5.4 (version 3.6.x recommended)
• MediaWiki 1.6.8+ (recommended 1.7.x+).
• PHP4+

Uninstalling...

• To uninstall vbWiki Standard simply remove (or comment) the line added to LocalSettings.php.
• Optionally remove the directory vbWiki from your forums directory.

[ElfMage]

Both versions are compatible.

To upgrade you'll need to upload the Pro files to the server, install a vBulletin Product (which adds the vbWiki Pro Admin CP settings), and change the line in MW's LocalSettings.php to launch vbWiki Pro rather than vbWiki Std.

Shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes.

[darkwinds]

I tried it but always when I want to install Mediawiki, it sais i should check databse username and passwort. I tried it about 10 times. Has anyone the same problem?

[ElfMage]

Hi darkwinds,

I haven't seen this issue before. Did you create the database where you will host MediaWiki tables before starting the install process?

[rwoscott]

Excellent!!

Just what I was looking for.

Thanks.

[steven s]

I've read just about every post in this thread. . .

My problem is when I go to www.mysite.com/wiki it changes to mysite.com/wiki

Anyone else run into this?

Edit: OK, this solved it. In my .htaccess file I added.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.org [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.org/wiki/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

[steven s]

It appears even guests can make edits.
Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

[ElfMage]

If you are using vbWiki Standard, then the user group permissions need to be added to vbWiki_Init.php...

[steven s]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

If you are using vbWiki Standard, then the user group permissions need to be added to vbWiki_Init.php...

I have it there. But what also confuses me that I read elsewhere that is the default setting as well.
So I removed it from it from the init file and just added it back again.
Logged out and still can edit as a guest.

[steven s]

I've deleted vbWiki but still have

*[vbwiki_pro]* in my control panel.
How do I remove that?

Solved: remove includes/xml/cpnav_nuhit_vbwikipro.xml

[foxfirediego]

Thanks for the modification... works great (until now )
Feedback:
This is how I've set my environment:
MW -> Using DB wiki
FORUM -> Using DB vbulletin

MW -> wiki.mysite.com
FORUM -> forum.mysite.com

Post Referrer Whitelist
.mysite.com

Cookie Domain
.mysite.com

and finally in the end of the file LocalSettings.php I've added this:
$wgCookieDomain = '.mysite.com';

more information:
http://www.nuhit.com/forums/vbwiki-p...ent_subdomains