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I have just started my site, having uploaded Wikimedia (1.16.2) using cPanelX. But my website main page (www.rusartnet.com) is just showing folders as of now, what do I have to do to make the main wiki page the main page for my whole website?

Your main page should have been generated automatically! That is/should have been your starting point. I have just attempted to find your website without success:

http://www.rusartnet.com/

I note that you did not know where to find LocalSettings.php. I only mention that because the last thing I had to do when downloading mediawiki was to move LocalSettings.php to the root folder, in my case 'Mediawiki'

I don't know much about mediawiki, only what I have found by my mistakes and assistence from research to try put them right.

Hey, I have just tried again accessing your website and was directed to your 'index page' I clicked on the folder 'mediawiki' and your main page opened!!

Here is your main page: http://www.rusartnet.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

I have just left a message on your main page without even attempting to log on, so something is not quite right!

I have got this awful feeling that $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; does not mean people are barred from editing pages!

PS: There is no facility to create an account, so $wg above may mean visiors do not need to create an account to edit pages! I think that there is a $wg.. that restricts people from editing.

To disable editing by unregistered users:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

Thanks for all the messages, including on the site - not really sure what is happening, but things are certainly not as they should be!

I think that once you insert the $wg group permissions (provided by Reach Out to the Truth) in Local Settings everything will be ok. Your url to your main page seems ok.

PS I see you have inserted the $wg. There is now no facility on the main page to edit and also no way to create an account, so you have done it.

Yes, it seems to be so. Besides not being able to get my front page to be the Media Wiki page, I also have the following questions: (1) I know I can upload files just like any normal person going into a Wiki can, but is it better to officially upload them, using a file server? I would presume so, so that I can save them if I want to change things around, etc. Only, again, there seems to be no one way of doing this - I have looked at tutorials and they all have different approaches for different systems. (2) How do you change the title tag, meaning what is the route for getting in at the HTML text?

I see that you have figured out how to change titles/pages names.

Re: uploading files you need to configure media wiki:

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

Yes, it seems to be so. Besides not being able to get my front page to be the Media Wiki page, I also have the following questions: (1) I know I can upload files just like any normal person going into a Wiki can, but is it better to officially upload them, using a file server? I would presume so, so that I can save them if I want to change things around, etc. Only, again, there seems to be no one way of doing this - I have looked at tutorials and they all have different approaches for different systems. (2) How do you change the title tag, meaning what is the route for getting in at the HTML text?