How to set up page security for your MediaWiki web site.

Many people love WiKi web sites, especially Wikipedia which allows everybody to register a username, and lets him/her to post an article and edit articles written by other people. However if you want to set up a partially “open-door” web site, you may want to implement user-access control.

Basic User Right Control: Add the following lines to LocalSettings.php:

#do not allow anonymous users create an account
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

#users do not need to log in to read
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;

# require that users log in to edit
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

# allow these pages for anonymous users
$wgWhitelistRead = array( “Main Page”, “Special:Userlogin”, “-”, “MediaWiki:Monobook.css” );

# remove the link to the talk page for non-logged in users
$wgShowIPinHeader = false;

# require that users log in to read
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

If you want to set up different privileges for customers and content developers, you need to download and install PageSecurity extension from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageSecurity.

Ref: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access

Change this line in LocalSettings.php file to use your preferred skin

$wgDefaultSkin = ‘iv’;

Upload your log to a directory, change mod to 755, then add your logo image path to LocalSettings.php file, for example:

$wgLogo = "/mediawiki/skins/common/images/Dna1.gif";

For Icon:

$wgFavicon = "/mediawiki/favicon.ico";