Installing And UnInstalling (AWC Wiki Forum)

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Fresh Install

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In order to install AWC's Forum extension, you must have 'CREATE' privilege for your database user.

• Download the Forum's tar file.

• Upload the contents of the .tar to your Wiki's root folder

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• Edit your Wiki's LocalSettings.php file, add the following:

require_once( "$IP/extensions/awc/forums/awc_forum.php" );

just under

require_once( "$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php" );

so it will look like this

require_once( "$IP/includes/DefaultSettings.php" );
require_once( "$IP/extensions/awc/forums/awc_forum.php" );

• Go to your "Special pages" and you will now see a link to your forum.
  

Wiki link to your forum would be [[Special:AWCforum| Forums]]. Click that and you will see a link to Install your forum.

• You're finished.

/xported_files/

All exported files, CSS, Skin or Language are now saved to a new folder: extensions/awc/forums/xported_files/
You need to make the following folder extensions/awc/forums/xported_files writable.
This is done the same way you made your wiki /config/ folder writable during your Mediawiki install.
You can do this two ways, FTP-Client or SSH to your server.
With a FTP-Client you have to set the folder permissions to 755

SSH Terminal

name@machine:/$ cd /path/to/wiki/extensions/awc/forums/ name@machine:/$ chmod a+w xported_files

Updating Your Forum

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• Download your Update

• Go to your ACP (Admin Control Panel)

1. Click on "Forum Up-date Installer"
2. Click on the Update version number.

• You're finished, fully updated.

Uninstall

• Go to your ACP (Admin Control Panel)

1. Click "Forum Up-date Installer"
2. Click Un-Install.

You will then be brought to one "warning" screen, next click will delete all of the forums Database tables.

• Remove the LocalSettings.php edit

require_once( "$IP/extensions/awc/forums/awc_forum.php" );

• Delete the following folder from your Wiki \extensions\awc\forums\
  

Note - do not delete all the folders, only delete the \forums\ folder.

• Delete the following file, SpecialAWCforum.php (if it exists) form your Wiki's includes folder.

• Send me an email or PM explaining why you did not like the Forum Extension :-)

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