Help:Administrator's Guide
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| MediaWiki Handbook: Contents, Readers, Editors, Moderators, System admins +/- |
This is PART 2 : Administrator's Guide - Installation, Configuration, Administration, Care & Feeding of the MediaWiki Documentation.
In this section, you will learn how to install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot the MediaWiki software.
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Installation
Detailed information can be found here: Installation.
Configuration
Edit LocalSettings.php, mediawiki's system options.
To learn variables and about enabling the Apache httpd's Rewrite Engine, see Configuration
Configuration chapters (technically worded informative papers)
- Preventing access
- Configuration localsettings.php and Apache httpd's Rewrite Engine
- Help:Configuration interwiki/external wiki linking, adminsettings.php, language.php and localsettings.php features to edit
- Configuration settings index full list of localsettings.php variables
- Apache config
- Robots.txt how to stop search engines from indexing the internals of your wiki
- Short URL not supported by MediaWiki. may affect future versions
- PHP config
- MySQL config
Administration
See Administration
Customization learn how to use mediawiki and change settings here
- Customization change page layout, logo, quickbar/navigation bar, favicon, editable left menu, and google wiki search
- Help:System message How to customize system messages such as link text, button text, etc. within MediaWiki without modifying any .php files.
- Set Global Timezone
- Localisation – localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
- Interwiki links
- Custom skins
- Custom namespaces
- Configuration tips and tricks
- Extensions
Security
See Security.
Links to other help pages
- Help contents
- b: | commons: | m: | mw: | n: | q: | s: | v: | w: | wikt: | mw:Manual | google
- Versions of this help page (for other languages see below)
- Meta | Wikinews | Wikipedia | Wikiquote | Wiktionary
- What links here on Meta or from Meta | Wikipedia | MediaWiki
- Reading
- Go | Search | Stop words | URL | Namespace | Page name | Section
- Backlinks | Link | Piped link | Interwiki link | Redirect | Category | Image page
- Logging in and preferences
- Logging in | Preferences | User style
- Editing
- Advanced editing | Editing FAQ | Edit toolbar | Export | Import | Shortcuts
- Tracking changes
- Recent changes (enhanced) | Related changes | Watching pages | Diff
- Page history | Edit summary | User contributions | Minor edit | Patrolled edit
- Style & formatting
- Wikitext examples | Reference card | HTML in wikitext | List | Table | Sorting
- Special input and output
- Inputbox | Special characters | Displaying a formula | Images (uploads) | EasyTimeline
- Advanced functioning
- Template | Advanced templates | Parser function | ParserFunctions | Parameter default
- Variable | Magic word | System message | Substitution | Array | Calculation
- Page management
- Starting a new page | Renaming (moving) a page | Protecting pages | Deleting a page
- Special pages
- Talk page | Testing | Sandbox














