MediaWikiΒΆ

  • To allow uploading PDFs and other kind of files in mediawiki, go to the folder and edit the following file /var/www/html/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php Change [or write] the following line.
    • $wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'doc', 'xls', 'mpp', 'pdf', 'ppt', 'tiff', 'bmp', 'docx', 'xlsx', 'pptx', 'ps', 'odt', 'ods', 'odp', 'odg');
    • sudo mkdir /var/www/html/mediawiki/images/temp
    • sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/mediawiki/images/
  • To increase the permissible file upload in mediawiki, change the following file /etc/php.ini
    • upload_max_filesize = 20M
    • post_max_size = 80M
  • Use <br /> for inserting newline characters