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{{TOCright}}[[THCCwiki:Setup|Setup]] of the MediaWiki software on the THCC web site.

==MediaWiki Installation==

Version 1.14.0

: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation
: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Contents

Added favicon.ico and thcc.gif from old web site

Set $wgLogo = "http://thcc2009.co.uk/thcc.gif";

==MediaWiki config changes==

: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings

Allow tidy URL like http://thcc2009.co.uk/wiki/Main_Page rather than long and messy ones like http://thcc2009.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/wiki/Page_title_--_no_root_access

Change home page to be http://thcc2009.co.uk/wiki/Home rather than http://thcc2009.co.uk/wiki/Main_Page. Set [[Main page]] to transclude [[Home]] page.

Alter left side menu to reflect our needs rather than defaults.

Enable uploads.

Disable page editing for unauthenticated users.

Protect '''Project''' namespace.
: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection

Define Namespace alias for '''THCCwiki''' as '''Club'''
: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Namespaces#Namespace_aliases

==MediaWiki extensions==

===Link user accounts to phpBB===

: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PHPBB/Users_Integration

===Core MediaWiki===

: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions

===Extra markup===

: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UsenetSyntax - alernative B and I tags
: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:YouTubeTag - embed video
: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RawMsg - allow IFRAMEs

==Problems and bugs==

===User name case===

User names are forced to start with an uppercase letter.
This is standard for Mediawiki ''by policy''.
: \includes\User.php Line 498 in function isValidUserName
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name#Case-sensitivity_of_the_first_character
: See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgCapitalLinks

===Unable to create thumbnail images===

 Error creating thumbnail:
 <b>Warning</b>: passthru() has been disabled for security reasons in 
 <b>/home/thcczzzz/public_html/mediawiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php</b>
 on line <b>2131</b>