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A few newbie questions

posts: 6

Hi all,

I'm completely new to tikiwiki. I have a few questions to be answered:

1. Can anyone tell me how to do a url rewrite just like this site does: http://www.damosoft.co.uk/Maintenance

2. In addition, do I need to set up different user accounts for different sections? To my understanding, it is just like having multiple weblog/article pages. Am I right?

3. How could I change the name, decoration and the content of the boxes? Just for a scenario, I wish to change "Support Forums" box into "Post your questions here".

4. How can I do a random top image each time when I load a page?

5. Is there an easy way to change the language of Tikiwiki?

6. Is here a right place for the above questions?

BTW, the documentation of TikiWiki is not quite ready. I've found it very difficult to make my own customization. Maybe I am not familiar with PHP and Smarty architecture.

Best wishes,
dfpoon

posts: 2881 United Kingdom

A few questions hey? wink

1) Hey thats my site! TikiRewriteRules, there are also documented on the doc site. Its basically done through some code tweaks in tikilib for the url generation and the Rewrite rule itself is available as apache.

2) Nope 1 user can be everywhere, just depends on your groups and group permissions

3) Accomplished in the Admin->Modules. That module is a custom menu setup through Admin->Menus with links to the forums.

4) Use the banners feature, search for bannerdoc

5) Through Admin->General

6) Looks like it was wink

The documentation is right here all over the place at tikiwiki.org. Careful searching etc will reveal the info you need. You are welcome to give us a hand at moving the content from here to the doc.tw.o site.

Damian


posts: 6

Thanks Damian. For 1), do you mean I must use "mod_rewrite" in Apache? I don't have much experience with that.

And how can I do a localization? I wish I can display items into Translation Chinese characters.

thanks a lot.

dfpoon

posts: 2881 United Kingdom

> dfpoon:
> Thanks Damian. For 1), do you mean I must use "mod_rewrite" in Apache? I don't have much experience with that.

Yes, it depends on mod_rewrite.

> And how can I do a localization? I wish I can display items into Translation Chinese characters.

Set your server output to UTF-8 through possibily your php.ini and choose the chinese language in admin->general.


Damian


posts: 2881 United Kingdom

> dfpoon:
> Thanks Damian. For 1), do you mean I must use "mod_rewrite" in Apache? I don't have much experience with that.

Yes, it depends on mod_rewrite.

> And how can I do a localization? I wish I can display items into Translation Chinese characters.

Set your server output to UTF-8 through possibily your php.ini and choose the chinese language in admin->general.


Damian


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