mediawiki help

Discussion in 'PHP' started by tim987, May 25, 2008.

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    I installed mediawiki but when i type in the url it goes to the Main_Page. I don't want it to go to the Main_Page. I want it exactly like this:

    http://wikipedia.org

    Do you see when you go to wikipedia.org it loads that type of homepage with the big logo in the middle. I think it's a landing page but i don't know how to make one and link it to mediawiki cuz the url's will change. like the index page on mediawiki is called Main_Page and it has a url like www.myurl.com/index.php?title=Main_Page and i want the landing page url to be www.myurl.com then when users click on a button it will take them to the index.php?title=Main_Page page.

    How do I make mediawiki do this?

    Also, how would I replace the big logo in the middle with a logo of mine? I want my logo about twice the size of the default big logo.

    I also don't want the English, Deutsch, and other language buttons around the logo. How would I remove them?

    And you see underneath the logo it has all those words like Search · Suche · Rechercher · Szukaj · ?? · etc etc. How do I replace these with my own words.

    And you see on the main page it has a Search button where you can type in what you want to search for. Well I want to replace this button with an ENTER button where users click on the button and it will go to Main_Page. How do I do this?
    And next to the ENTER button i want to have a button which when users click on it, it will take them to one of my other websites which i have a url for. How can i do this?
     
    tim987, May 25, 2008 IP
  2. blueparukia

    blueparukia Well-Known Member

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    Wikipedia made that splash page themselves, and probably threw in a php redirect (
    header("Location:http://yoursite.com/splash")
    PHP:
    ), so just code it with HTML.
     
    blueparukia, May 26, 2008 IP