Mailing List Archive: quick software question...

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jason Richey wrote:
> Does the current software have a quick mechanism to make the site
> read-only?

Yes, there's a special file under the uploads directory such that if it
exists, the wiki is in read-only mode. Someone logged in with developer
access can switch it in and out via special pages; or it can be manually
created/deleted. The location and name of the file are set in
LocalSettings.php.

> Also, is there anything that would make it easy to have "articles and
> searching only". That is, no user logins or anything fancy, just the
> ability to read the articles and search through them.

Read-only mode blocks logins IIRC, but if someone is already logged in it
doesn't ignore their cookies.

To disable many of the special pages, set $wgMiserMode = true in
LocalSettings; and probably change the message in language*.php. Hmm,
though it might be useful to remove them from the menus to.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)