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MediaWiki installation at Neela Nurseries, 2017 June

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Getting started

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Localise MediaWiki for your language
• Learn how to combat spam on your wiki

Shell scripting

• Advanced Bash Shell Scripting Guide

How To Use Git

• Create new git repository by Karl Broman
• Add existing project to Github
• rename a file under Git version control

Drupal Content Management

• Introduction to Drupal Web Content Management Framework
  • What is Drupal?
  • Drupal licensing
  • History of Drupal project

• Drupal 8 documentation . . . there are also mentioned Drupal major releases 6 and 7 - TMH
  • What you will learn in the Drupal book, and Drupal modules Views, Flag, Rules, Page manager/Panel

• Drupal 8 User Guide
  • Drupal 8 software requirements
  • more general Drupal software packages requirements

2017-08-23

• Nodes represent content in Drupal context
  • Views
  • Flag
  • Rules . . . see 2017-09-01 entry for more rules document links, below.
  • Page manager

2017-08-23 - Drupal installation . . .

• Install Drupal 8
  • Before installing
  • step 1 - get the code
  • step 2 - install PHP dependencies with composer
  • step 3 - create a database for Drupal code and scripts
  • step 4 - configure Drupal your installation
    • Drupal multi-site configuration
  • step 5 - run the installer
    • Drupal User Guide 'Running the Installer'
      • how to relocate Drupal config outside document root

2017-08-24

• After stepping through install script . . .
  • How to configure clean URLs with apache2

2017-08-25

• Trusted Host security settings array in Drupal 8
• Adding and amending front page content

2017-08-30
Ted looking for information on how Drupal can aid setting up dynamic, site navigation menus:

• Adding menu items to your site map
• Adding menu items to your site map, latest major 2017 Drupal release

2017-09-01

• an alternate Drupal Rules documentation page
  • D Rules - Introduction
  • D Rules - Site Builder Documentation
  • D Rules - Developer Documentation
  • D Rules - Contributed Features and Examples
  • D Rules - Project Resources
  • D Rules - Drupal 6, Rules 1.x

Composer, a dependency manager of PHP

• How to install composer globally
• Composer "lock the lock file"

Geography and Science

• Sri Lanka
• NASA eclipse page
• Eclipses to come to South Africa, beyond 2017

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