Thread:Project:Support desk/Access configuration

Hello,

My company decided to change our wiki and we changed from pmWiki to Mediawiki it is a given that there must be a namespace for the IT department so that the articles that are in it will only be accessible by the people who have an account All other articles must be open to everyone else.

I edited the LocalSettings.php file with $wgWhitelist so that all files that are specified in it will be open to everyone but the problem that I have is that, that method is really unintuitive. I can't have my collegues edit a php script everytime they want to edit the wiki. Besides it compromises the server's security.

Is there any way that I can make a namespace accessible only by logged in users?

I have been googling for two days now and I only find extensions most of which are just outdated or unsecure.

my current configuration is: