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Current system information:

MediaWiki 1.18.2

PHP 5.3.3 (apache2handler)

MySQL 5.1.67

Background summary: The purpose of this is to allow a select handful of users to quickly access articles from a wiki that is a backup copy for emergency purposes. Unlike its live counterpart, it is not necessary to restrict anonymous user interactions. That is to say, I would like to be rid of the login page entirely and allow any person to view any articles as they desire.

I have tried changing $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; to $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true; Attempts to google similar solutions turn up with nothing useful, and a whole bunch of articles detailing how to make the wiki private. Could just be my terrible googling skills, but hey!

Any sort of quick and dirty method of doing this would be fine; thanks to all who contribute in advance.

Cheers!

A default MediaWiki installation allows anyone to see articles with no restriction, and also edit pages. All configuration changes are done at the LocalSettings file. Just take a look at that file and remove (comment out) everything that has to do with group permissions and restrictions and it should work.

Thanks for your response! It took me a while to find out that I had not updated $wgServer in LocalSettings.php after backing up the wiki to another domain, but it all works fine now.