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Learn how to secure, configure, install and set mediawiki

1. Administrator's Guide

Overview developers talk

1. MediaWiki architecture
2. Database layout

Security techy

1. Security
2. Security Checklist
3. Paranoid Permissions (system)
4. Permissive Permissions (system)
5. Setting user rights (inside wiki environment)

Configuration techy

1. Preventing Access
2. Configuration localsettings.php and Apache httpd's Rewrite Engine
3. Help:Configuration interwiki/external wiki linking, adminsettings.php, language.php and localsettings.php features to edit
4. Configuration settings full list of localsettings.php variables
5. Apache config
6. Robots.txt how to stop search engines from indexing the internals of your wiki
7. Eliminating index.php from the url not supported by mediawiki. may affect future versions
8. Using a very short URL
9. PHP config
10. MySQL config

Customization learn how to use mediawiki and change settings here

1. Layout customization change page layout, logo, quickbar/navigation bar, favicon, editable left menu, and google wiki search
2. Timezone adjustments
3. MediaWiki localization -- localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
4. Interwiki links
5. Custom skins
6. Custom namespaces
7. Configuration tips and tricks
8. MediaWiki extensions
9. How to add a web search box to the navigation bar

Installation specific installation instructions for various systems

1. Installation
2. Working with CVS
3. CVS tree installation
4. Installation FAQ
5. on Linux
   1. Redhat Linux
   2. Debian GNU/Linux
   3. Ubuntu GNU/Linux
   4. Gentoo
   5. Mandrake
   6. Slackware
   7. SuSE Linux 9.3
6. on Solaris
   1. on Solaris 10
   2. on Solaris 9
7. on Mac OS X
8. on NetWare
9. on FreeBSD
10. on Windows
    1. Newcomers guide to installing on Windows
    2. Wiki on a stick
11. on Sourceforge.net
12. Timezone adjustments

Manage the database

1. How to move a MediaWiki Database (related to backing up and restoring)
2. Reduce the size of the database
3. Lock the database

Performance look after your server

1. PHP caching and optimization
2. File cache
3. Squid caching
4. Cache strategy deployed by Wikimedia
5. Wikimedia servers: an example of a multi-server configuration
6. As your Site Grows

Maintenance

1. Help:Maintenance scripts overview
2. Help:Rebuildall.php

Upgrading

1. Upgrade Mediawiki

Troubleshooting

1. Troubleshooting math errors

Reference

1. LocalSettings.php