Adding page-by-page protection

From Tuxation

More information can be found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Group_Based_Access_Control

Basically we installed a new extension in order to add a page-by-page protection. It can be downloaded from here: File:Accesscontrol-0.7.zip

Once the extension is installed, just edit the LocalSettings.php as in the following:

# Include the extention. Please check the path is correct.
require_once( "$IP/extensions/accesscontrol/accesscontrolSettings.php" );
include("extensions/accesscontrol/accesscontrol.php");

# Require users to login.
$wgWhitelistEdit = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

# AccessControl settings.
// if false, show a Line on Top of each secured Page, which says, which Groups
// are allowed to see this page.
$wgAccessControlDisableMessages = false; 

// The Prefix for the Usergroup-Pages
$wgAccessControlGroupPrefix = "Usergroup"; 

// To this Page will these users redirected who are not allowed to see the page.
$wgAccessControlNoAccessPage = "/apache2-default/mediawiki/noaccess.html"; 

// Set this to 1.7, if you use mediaWiki 1.7 or greater, this is for compatibility
// reasons
$wgWikiVersion = 1.7; 

// use the groups from MediaWiki instead of own Usergroup pages
$wgUseMediaWikiGroups = false; 

// sysop users can read all restricted pages
$wgAdminCanReadAll = true; 

// The text for the showing on the restricted pages, for one group
$wgGroupLineText = "This page is only accessible for group %s !!!"; 

// The text for the showing on the restricted pages, for more than one group
$wgGroupsLineText = "This page is only accessible for group %s !!!"; 

$wgAccesscontrolDebug = false;  // Debug log on
$wgAccesscontrolDebugFile = "/var/www/wiki/config/debug.txt"; // Path to the debug l

Then you'll gonna have to create an html file as pointed to by /apache2-default/mediawiki/noaccess.html in the configuration. You can change this to your liking of course.