Today, after a long time, I am finally ready to learn about MediaWiki templates. After having put that off for weeks since I’d first heard of them, I found that it only took about five minutes to learn just about everything there is to know about them from the MediaWiki templates documentation. I think there are a few areas of the ProgClub wiki that could do with the use of templates, might go and see to that now.
Found the doco for MediaWiki’s email settings and now my config looks a little like this:
$wgEnableEmail = true; $wgEnableUserEmail = true; # UPO $wgEmergencyContact = "pcwiki@progclub.org"; $wgPasswordSender = "pcwiki@progclub.org"; $wgNoReplyAddress = $wgEmergencyContact; $wgPasswordSenderName = "ProgClub wiki";
I wanted to configure the “From” email address that WordPress uses when emailing password resets. The way to do this is with a WordPress hook, specifically a filter hook in this case. So, in wp-config.php I added the following code:
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from', 'pcblog_mail_from' );
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from_name', 'pcblog_mail_from_name' );
function pcblog_mail_from() {
return 'pcblog@progclub.org';
}
function pcblog_mail_from_name() {
return 'ProgClub blog';
}
I found these instructions for configuring spamassassin in mailman. The defaults seem a little high to me, so I’ve reconfigured with:
SPAMASSASSIN_DISCARD_SCORE = 7
SPAMASSASSIN_HOLD_SCORE = 2
SPAMASSASSIN_MEMBER_BONUS = 5
Had a problem where localhost wasn’t bound because I’d used bind-address to bind the internet IP address. The fix was to remove bind-address altogether, meaning that all addresses get bound.
I stumbled upon this documentation for svnmailer while I was closing my browser windows, and in it I found how to modify the subject line for the commit hook emails to include the author. Handy!
Had a problem with mailman not showing mailing lists on its listinfo page. The problem turned out to be related to my virtual hosts settings.
There’s been news every day for a while now. Not too shabby. Today’s news is that ViewVC (aka: Pcview) has been installed and configured on charity.progclub.org. That means that now pcrepo can be browsed online. Comes complete with support for syntax highlighting and line-numbers (courtesy of the ‘highlight’ package, couldn’t get enscript to work for PHP) and a proper logo with a link back to the wiki. That’s five completed projects now! Go school!