Commons Computer Cloudron

From DWeb Vancouver

Commons Computer is a project in shared or "commons" hosting of various apps and services by Boris. It's a VPS running Cloudron.

CCC Details on Hosting and MediaWiki Configuration

Cloudron MediaWiki Docs

Setup for local Mediawiki accounts. People need to create an account and confirm email in order to edit pages.

Enabled the VisualEditor in LocalSettings wfLoadExtension( 'VisualEditor' );

Changed the name of the wiki in LocalSettings: $wgSitename = 'DWeb Vancouver';

Installed all the MediaWiki Wordpress Themes

  • Connected into the Cloudron Terminal
  • Changed to /app/data/skins
  • git clone https://github.com/jdlrobson/MediaWikiWordpressThemes.git
  • ln -s MediaWikiWordpressThemes/* .
  • Set Fairy to default in LocalSettings $wgDefaultSkin = 'Fairy';

Set timezone to Vancouver $wgLocaltimezone = 'America/Vancouver';