[Mediawiki-l] Personal wiki

Sat Apr 1 13:06:25 UTC 2006

If you want to stop any network user to surf your personal Wiki Following
command will stop anyone from accessing your HTTP port

 iptables -A INPUT -s 0/0 -i eth0 -p TCP --dport 80 -j DENY


On 4/1/06, John Wiedenhoeft <wiedenhoeft at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bit too naive, and wether its a FAQ or a
> completely new stupid question.
>
> I would like to setup a wiki on my notebook for my study and research
> notes and book excerpts. Puzzling around with hundreds of text files is
> quite unsatisfactory.  Besides, having used wikipedia online for a while
> my way of thinking started to be wikified ;-)
>
> Currently I work with didiwiki, but this has a poor search algorithm
> that's even case sensitive, it doesn't support formula etc.
>
> I would like to have mediawiki on localhost, accessing it from
> localhost, and don't allow anybody else in the network to use it (guess
> a firewall is enough?).
>
> I read the installation procedure, but it appears it is more for people
> having some network background.
>
> I've installed the php packages etc. via apt-get (I'm using Ubuntu 5.10
> Breezy, with Gnome), but I don't get that thing to work.
>
> I'd very much appreciate some "mediawiki for idiots" instructions about
> how to make my personal wiki run.
>
> Best regards,
> John
>
> P.S.: I wouldn't need a complete page history. saving just the last 2-3
> edits would be enough.
>
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