How do I configure the wiki?
Christopher Brooks, 7 Sep 2006
Last updated: 16 Sep 2008

This notes are based on email from Jonathan Sprinkle (Thanks Jon!)

The way the wiki works is a little bit tricky. (tricky wiki)

We use PmWiki and wiki farms.

Each workgroup that has a wiki has a few configuration files checked in to CVS under workgroupName/web/wiki. To access these files, use CVS. For example for workgroups on the Trust website:

cvs -d :ext:source.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_trust co workgroupName

Skins

If you want to try a new a skin, then the website admins probably need to add it to the wiki-wide skins directory. For example, /export/home/www/php/pmwiki/pub/skins needed to have the monobook directory set up.

As of 1/7, we have the simple and monobook skins. The monobook skin is now the default. The monobook skin is similar to the skin used by Wikipedia. To select a skin, create wiki/local/config.php and

<?php
# Specifies the name of the template file
# to be used to generate pages.
$Skin = 'simple';
?>

It is possible to place a copy of the skins directory in your own wiki, but this gets confusing since the paths tend to look for files in the wiki-wide directory. If you find a skin you would like to try, send email to webmaster2 and we can add it to ~www/php/pmwiki/pub/skins.

sourceblock

By the way, if you're adding code segments to the wiki, I installed the sourceblock package from the cookbook: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SourceBlock To add/format source, use:

(:source:)                                                                    
$ ls -la
(:sourcend:)                                                                  

(:source lang=bash header=/etc/bash.bashrc:) export                           
ICE_HOME=/opt/Ice-3.1.0 export PATH=$ICE_HOME/bin:$PATH                       
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ICE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH                         
(:sourcend:)                                                                  

Languages that are supported can be found here (GeSHi tool): http://qbnz.com/highlighter/

emenu

Table of Contents

(:toc:)

An example config.php

A more complex wiki/local/config.php:

<?php if (!defined('PmWiki')) exit();
$WikiTitle = "DARPA Grand Challenge 3 (DGC3)";
$PageLogoUrl = "http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/dgc3/images/gdc150.gif";

$DefaultPasswords['admin'] = crypt('notarealpassword');

$EnableUpload = 1;
$DefaultPasswords['upload'] = crypt('notanotherrealpass');

include_once('cookbook/sourceblock.php');

putenv("TZ=EST5EDT");
$TimeFmt = '%B %d, %Y, at %I:%M %p EST';
?>

JsMenu

Upload Extensions

$UploadExts['wmv'] = 'video/wmv';

Admin

Systems Administrator level pages (for people who have a login account on the webserver): How do I set up the Wiki System?