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System Administrator's Handbook
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Overview
Installation
Security
- Security
- Security Checklist
- Paranoid Permissions (system)
- Permissive Permissions (system)
- Setting user rights (inside wiki environment)
Configuration
- Configuration
- Help:Configuration
- Apache config
- Robots.txt -- how to avoid search engines to index the internals of your wiki
- Rewrite Rules -- how to get rid of /index.php in URLs
- PHP config
- MySQL config
Customization
- Customization
- Timezone adjustments
- MediaWiki localization -- localization and customization for link texts and messages like 'fromwikipedia'
- Interwiki links
- Custom skins
- Custom Namespaces
- More tweaks
- Configuration tips and tricks
Manage the database
Performance
- PHP caching and optimization
- File cache
- Cache strategy deployed by Wikimedia
- Wikimedia servers: an example of a multi-server configuration
Upgrading