Using gconf-editor navigate to applications - nautilus - desktop.
There are a couple of icons you can select to show on the desktop including “computer”, “home”, and “trash”.
If you want your Mediawiki installation to properly display from the following example subdomain:
wiki.bgevolution.com
You will need to add the following to your LocalSettings.php configuration file:
$wgScriptPath =”";
You will also have to adjust the ANAME records of your DNS server to make sure all subdomains are forwarded to your servers IP address. Use the wildcard (*) and everthing should be find. You will also need to create a name based apache virtualhost to receive the incoming subdomain request. Something like the following works fine:
<VirtualHost *>
HostName wiki.bgevolution.com
DocumentRoot: /home/user/mediawiki/
</VirtualHost>
If your Mediaiwki installation is not going to be completely editable by the public you will need to change various permissions options in the LocalSettings.php configuration file. For instance if you want to prevent account creation use:
// Only SysOp (Admin) can create accounts -
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
If you want to prevent people from creating new pages use:
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createpage'] = false;
If you want to allow people to create talk pages use:
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createtalk'] = true;
Or if you want to completely prevent users from editing, without logging is as a registered user, use:
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
Mediawiki has built in caching functions. This can sometimes conflict with browsers, and cause pages to not update after an edit has been made your a user has logged in. To resolve this issue disable the caching feature of Mediawiki. In the includes directory, of your Mediawiki installation, open DefaultSettings.php.
Change:
$wgCachePages = true;
to:
$wgCachePages = false;
