[Mediawiki-l] Restricintg registration for users

2009-06-12 Thread Waleed Pervaiz
Gey guys, I'm relatively new to mediawiki, but learning fast. I want to be able to give access to only users whom I approve. I used these lines to disable view access for anonymous users: $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; $wgWhitelistRead = array ( Main Page, Special:Userlogin,

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Restricintg registration for users

2009-06-12 Thread zehetner
E.g. # disable user registration $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgGroupPermissions Gu Quoting Waleed Pervaiz wperv...@hotmail.com: Gey guys, I'm relatively new to

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Restricintg registration for users

2009-06-12 Thread Waleed Pervaiz
Thanks! I also find a more elegant solution: Install this extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount And this line to localSettings: $wgWhitelistRead = array ( Main Page, Special:Userlogin, Help:Contents, Special:RequestAccount); voila! unregistered users can now only

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Restricintg registration for users

2009-06-12 Thread Ekompute .info
A, you are really one very lucky and fortunate guy. I left my website open for registration at Dummipedia.orghttp://dummipedia.org/Free_Simplified_Online_Encyclopediafor almost 2 years and hardly anyone does. PM Poon On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Waleed Pervaiz wperv...@hotmail.comwrote: