Installing And UnInstalling (AWC Wiki Forum)

Fresh Install

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
Edit your Wiki's LocalSettings.php file add the following to the very bottom:

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.

CSS / Style

Please read the following on an important Admin setting.

Information about: Run CSS off file ? (If option is set as no, css will be embeded in html out-put.)

Option found in: Forum >> Admin >> Forum Config Settings >> General Option's

Setting name	Run CSS off file ? (If option is set as no, css will be embeded in html out-put.)
Forum version	2.5.x
Active	Yes
Default setting	No/Off

What it does
CSS styles can be loaded two ways:

First with a style.css file

Second embedded into the web page with the style tag, accessed through your database.

<style type="text/css"> </style>

Running your css style with option one, using a style.css file is a better way to load your style because your pages load faster. This is because a file can be cached in the browser and the information does not need to be retrieved from your database.

To enable a style.css file you must create a style.css file but first you must make the forum css folder writable.

Making the file writable

You need to make the following folder extensions/awc/forums/skins/css 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/skins/

name@machine:/$ chmod a+w css

After you made the file writable navigate to:
Forum >> Admin >> CSS - Theme and then click "Save as .css file".

Updating the css file

If you create a .css file you have to remember that whenever you make any edits/changes to your css style you must re-save the file once your done. All changes you make to your css style are saved to the data-base, but those change need to be written to the .css file after each edit.

/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

Download your Update

Go to your ACP (Admin Control Panel)

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

You're finished, fully updated.

Uninstall

Go to your ACP (Admin Control Panel)

Click "Forum Up-date Installer"
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.

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