Dokuwiki notes and tricks

My preferred DokuWiki template is Bootstrap3. This site is using theme Cosmo. I also like United theme a lot. Before switching to Bootstrap3 I used to use Typowiki template.

• Installed languages: en, fi
• The content is divided into two language branches so that all URL's start with en or fi

Add to conf/local.php:

@include(DOKU_CONF.'local.protected.php');

In conf/local.protected.php:

<?php
$conf['lang'] = 'en';
$detected_lang = preg_replace('/^(..).*/i','$1',$_REQUEST['id']);
if (strcmp($detected_lang, 'fi') == 0) { $conf['lang'] = 'fi'; }
?>

What this effectively does: Sets language to English. Then scans the requested path and if it begins with “fi”, sets language to Finnish.

• https://forum.dokuwiki.org/d/2778-lost-admin-password/15
• apt install whois
• mkpasswd -m md5crypt
• type in the new password
• copy the hash to conf/users.auth.php

• Backup the server content
• Go to https://download.dokuwiki.org/
• Select the desired version, typically it is the recommended version and already selected
• Press “toggle all” to uncheck all other languages than English
• Don't tick anything else
• Press “Start Download” button
• A .tgz file is download
• Ship the file to the server
• Follow instructions on page https://www.dokuwiki.org/install:upgrade starting from step 4
  • Untar the tar
  • Become a root user
  • Copy the files over the current installation
• Check permissions https://www.dokuwiki.org/install:permissions
• Delete unused files https://www.dokuwiki.org/install:unused_files
• Delete the default Dokuwiki content, pages/wiki
• Check that the site works ok

https://www.dokuwiki.org/config:showuseras

Edit file inc/template.php

Comment out code

     $out .= '<bdi>'.$fn.'</bdi>';
     $out .= ' · ';
     $out .= $lang['lastmod'];
     $out .= ' ';
     $out .= $date;
  if($INFO['editor']){
     $out .= ' '.$lang['by'].' ';
     $out .= editorinfo($INFO['editor']);
   }else{
     $out .= ' ('.$lang['external_edit'].')';
   }

https://www.dokuwiki.org/template:typowiki

Edit file lib/tpl/typowiki/tpl_functions.php

In function _tpl_discussion comment out most of the code.