[MediaWiki-l] Web host blocking policy

2015-07-26 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Hello, So trying to make a contribution - while logged - English Wikipedia instance of Mediawiki returned a ban statut for the current IP. The reason : The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be a web host provider. To prevent abuse, web

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Web host blocking policy

2015-07-26 Thread David Gerard
On 26 July 2015 at 10:26, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Now a more policy concern is, why would you ban an IP when it do indeed make webhosting? It sounds like a shoot first at anything that would remotely look like a dirty face criminal, and then if it survive let it try

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Web host blocking policy

2015-07-26 Thread FRED BAUDER
Try clearing your open proxies and request an unblock. You can direct Nmap at your own ip to check your servers' status. I know this is hard and complicated, but that is why there is a blanket policy blocking sites with open proxies; they can be exploited at any time by multiple users. Fred

Re: [MediaWiki-l] use ssl to access the database

2015-07-26 Thread Benjamin Lees
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDBssl On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just added a remote database to my media wiki setup. I can access the database from the command line and using that info the wiki site shows up in a browser and

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Web host blocking policy

2015-07-26 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: While do occasionally launch a web service, this is my home IP where I currently don't run permanently such a service. So a first technical concern is, does this filter does have a good pattern recognition

[MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki and Joomla

2015-07-26 Thread Brook Powers
Can anyone recommend an add-on to integrate Media-Wiki (logins) with Joomla, more specifically, Community Builder? I want to add MediaWiki to enhance our existing site, but I prefer a single sign on and user database. TIA On Jul 26, 2015, at 6:16 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com

Re: [MediaWiki-l] use ssl to access the database

2015-07-26 Thread Tim Dunphy
The database is actually load balanced behind HA/Proxy. I'm testing from one webserver currently, the other two web servers have been left out of the pool. The connection from the command line as well as the wiki site goes: web server - lb1 - db1 I can log into db1 from both the web server as

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Web host blocking policy

2015-07-26 Thread Tyler Romeo
With the question answered, this discussion is off-topic for this mailing list, considering it is English Wikipedia policy and not anything sysadmin or MediaWiki-technical related. I recommend taking any follow-up questions on wiki or to IRC. --  Tyler Romeo https://parent5446.nyc

Re: [MediaWiki-l] use ssl to access the database

2015-07-26 Thread Tim Dunphy
wgDBssl is a bool setting Ok, thanks for that info! So this is the what I tried. ## Database settings $wgLBFactoryConf['class'] = 'LBFactorySimple'; $wgDBservers = ''; $wgDBtype = mysql; $wgDBserver = xx.xx.xx; $wgDBssl= 1; $wgDBname = jfwiki; $wgDBuser = admin_ssl; $wgDBpassword =

Re: [MediaWiki-l] use ssl to access the database

2015-07-26 Thread John
wgDBssl is a bool setting On Sunday, July 26, 2015, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: The database is actually load balanced behind HA/Proxy. I'm testing from one webserver currently, the other two web servers have been left out of the pool. The connection from the command line as well