User talk:Smaug

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Logo/Uploading Help
Hello,

I'm having a few problems with my MediaWiki and was wondering if you could help me out.

First off, I can't get file uploads to work. I keep getting a message that says they are disabled even though I have went through the steps to enable them such as changing the words to "true" and "yes" in the LocalSetting.php and php.ini files. Is there something else I can try?

The other thing is regarding the logo on the left.

For some reason, there is no logo area inside the LocalSetting.php file where they tell you to go to change the picture. Is there a way to fix this?

Any help would be appreciated. I'm getting a little frustrated.

http://www.twins-territory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

--12.218.227.226 18:43, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * You should consider getting an account on MW.
 * Anyway, $wgLogo is not in LocalSetting.php; you must add it. Whenever documentation or instructions say to set a variable in Localsettings.php, feel free to add it in if it is not there.
 * I do not yet have personal experience in file uploads. I noticed that you asked this question on the Support Desk.  If you do not get an answer there, you could try #mediawiki on IRC. Smaug  [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 19:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, so I just need to add the logo thing into the file. Do you know what exactly I need other than the "$wgLogo" part?

--12.218.227.226 13:22, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * If you have your image at "http://www.twins-territory.com/wiki/images/newlogo.png" then set

$wgLogo = "images/newlogo.png";
 * or if that doesn't work

$wgLogo = "http://www.twins-territory.com/wiki/images/newlogo.png"
 * Also see Manual:$wgLogo. Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 15:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, that worked great. Now I need to simply fix the upload thing because I can't start unless I can upload pictures.

I uploaded the logo in the backend manually...

--12.218.227.226 21:52, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I know you said that you don't have much experience with the uploads aspect of MediaWiki, but I was looking through the documentation again trying to figure it out, and saw that I have no php.ini folder which is an area that you need to set file_uploads to on.

Could that be the reason? If so, how could I go about adding this file?

Nevermind I guess it wasn't in the Wiki folder and was just a different file on the server. Do you think I'd need to move it to the Wiki folder to make it work?

Also, is there someone you could ask about this? Thanks for your help so far...

--12.218.227.226 00:54, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind again. It looks like it was only overwriting one of the LocalSettings.php files meaning the other one was still set to "false". I made the change and uploads are working.

Thanks for all of your help, I appreciate it.

--12.218.227.226 01:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Page name edit
Hi, I wasn't sure about how to continue the discussion in the support desk so I try here. I don't know how to rename a page, so I can't try what you suggested, but I would like to explain you my situation : I have a company wiki in which I have two sections with many pages in it. The content is the same from one section to the other, so I created all the pages for my first section, and I'm using these pages for the second section. But, as the title of the pages comes from the URL (if I'm right), from the first section to the second, the page names are the same. That's what I want to change, instead of creating all the pages for the second section with the same content as the first section. I hope this explanation was clear enough. -- FB
 * (To rename a page, find an adminstrator or someone with "move" rights on your wiki, and they can move the page. If you see a "move" tab in the same line of tabs as your "edit" tab, you can move a page yourself.)
 * How are you separating the sections? Are both sections in the same namespace, so that effectively each page will have a duplicate, the only change being name? How about using tranclusion of a page in the main namespace (read both links)?
 * And in the future, if you want to continue a discussion on a support page or any page, just click the edit button. Smaug [[Image:Tournesol.png|20px]] 02:32, 7 June 2008 (UTC)