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Table of contents

1. Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts
2. Configuration: How do I...
3. API: How do I...
4. Extensions: How do I...
5. DekiScript: How do I...
6. Visual Customization: How do I...
7. Troubleshooting: How do I...
8. User Management: How do I...
9. File Management: How do I...
10. Page Management: How do I...
11. Editor: How do I...
12. Deki VM: How do I...
13. Migration: How do I...
14. Testing and Contributing: How do I...
15. Performance Tuning: How do I...
16. Integration: How do I...

This FAQ is intended to help you find the answers to your most frequent MindTouch Deki questions. If there are topics not addressed here that you'd like to see in the future, please post your request here.

Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts

Build your own MindTouch search plug-in for Firefox and IE
Create a Poll on a wiki page?
Discussion Posts or forum
Invisible Text
Listing immediate sub-pages to the current page
Reporting Wiki Statistics
Structure a MindTouch site without a Hierarchy
User Help - Help For the End User
User Signature Shortcuts

Configuration: How do I...

Access MindTouch through Windows Explorer?
Access the windows file system from the MindTouch VM?
Auto-Start Mindtouch on Windows/Apache2?
Backup my MindTouch Install?
Change the local timezone settings?
Change the site name for MindTouch?
Change what URL is loaded when I select Help from the tool bar?
Configure Deki Wiki to digitally sign requests to extensions?
Configure email alerts?
Configure Email Sender in Multi-Tenant mode
Configure html2ps and ps2pdf under Windows?
Configure Lucene in a Clustered Environment
Configure MindTouch to run under Plesk?
Connect directly to my VM database from my desktop?
Connect to Deki Wiki using FTP?
Debug Prince problems?
Enable In-Page Editing and Saving in Word 2007?
Enable remote access to MySQL database?
Enable SSH?
Enable SSL at Login Time Only?
Enable the new control panel?
Exclude a Directory in mod rewrite rules?
Find the rewrite rules
Get an overview of configuration settings?
Handle Daylight Saving Time
Harden security on Linux servers running Deki Wiki
Install eAccelerator on Ubuntu 8.04 (Debian)
Install phpMyAdmin for database administration?
Install Prince for PDF Export?
Install VMWare Tools
Manage log files?
Monitor and automatically restart my wiki?
Provide HTTPS access to Deki Wiki?
Receive an Admin Password for Login?
Redirect Canonical Hostnames? (301 Redirection)
Run Apache on a Different Port?
Run Deki API on a different port?
Run Deki under a subdirectory?
Run Deki Wiki behind a Reverse Proxy
Run dekihost as a different user
Run multiple Deki Wikis?
Set up an HTTPS only site under IIS 6.0
Set up RSS notifications for changes to the wiki?
Setup a subdomain?
Update MindTouch?

API: How do I...

Authenticate and read entries with Python
Get an overview of the Deki Wiki API?
POST data to the API using command line CURL?
Program with the Deki API in PHP?
Program with the Deki API in PowerShell?
Program with the Deki API in VBScript?
Use VBA to export data to Deki Wiki?

Extensions: How do I...

Create extensions in other programming languages?
Create pages with dynamic content?
Get an overview of Deki Wiki Extensions?
Get extensions to run behind a Proxy?
Install an extension/script and then use it?
Take advantage of the Dapper extension?
Use Syntax Highlighter Service in Lyons?
Write a configurable extension in .Net?
Write a Deki extension for PHP?
Write an extension using Google App Engine?
Write my First DekiScript XML Extension?

DekiScript: How do I...

Access configuration settings in a DekiScript extension?
Apply effects to images?
Break long DekiScript lines?
Convert Wiki.Contributors into a list of users?
Create a Blog in MindTouch Deki?
Create a custom search form?
Create a Dynamic DekiScript dropdown menu
Create a dynamic link on an image?
Create a fancy directory page for an FAQ?
Create a flowchart or graph?
Create a page of videos from an RSS feed such as 12seconds.tv?
Create a parametrized JavaScript widget?
Create a Picasa Image Gallery?
Create a simple forum in DekiScript
Create a tag directory for sub-pages?
Create a unique document ID with a link?
Create an ajax discussion forum with Jquery and the Deki API
Create footnotes for Deki pages?
Display a list of files attached to a page?
Display pageviews with ajax as an animated ticker
Embed a Google Map on a page?
Embed a Windows Live map?
Embed an image gallery?
Embed an image slideshow?
Embed automatically an attached file?
Embed Google Calendar or Spreadsheet on a page?
Embed image depending on the description?
Embed mathematical formulae on a page?
Embed pictures from Flickr on a page?
Embed RSS feeds on a page?
Embed stock quotes from Yahoo?
Fetch the daily Dilbert comic strip?
Generate a TinyURL for my pages automatically?
Go from a tag to its definition page?
Include content from wiki pages, sorted by most recently updated?
Include recent changes in a page?
Know which values are implicitly passed to my extension?
Link multiple controls together on a page?
Link to a particular version of a page?
List the most popular pages?
Mashup a Windows Live Map with other elements on a page?
Mashup Windows Live Contacts with other elements on a page?
Output a group of wiki pages using DekiScript?
Read the Implicit Environment from within a PHP Extension?
Show the revision number for the current page?
Simulate a discussion board
Test my DekiScript extension?
Use JEM to do PUT/POST and DELETE on RESTful APIs
Use jQuery to access the MindTouch API via AJAX?
Use web.toggle to get a whole tree?

Visual Customization: How do I...

Change the logo?
Change the size of the Logo I can upload?
Create a new skin?
Customize My Wiki?
Customize text in the user interface?
Disable the navigation hierarchy animation?
Have the text in the nav pane wrap?
Hide comments?
Hide the Image Gallery?
Implement global templates?
Insert advertising on my wiki?
Target skinning variables from the content?

Troubleshooting: How do I...

Patch Deki to support Flash 10
Troubleshoot a missing editor?
Troubleshoot Bad Request 400 - User would be locked out of page with given grants and restrictions
Troubleshoot blocked attachments?
Troubleshoot broken upgrades?
Troubleshoot Broken VM after upgrade?
Troubleshoot 'CANT CONNECT LOOPBACK'?
Troubleshoot missing attachments?
Troubleshoot missing style on dialog boxes?
Troubleshoot missing UI elements?
Troubleshoot MySQL exceptions
Troubleshoot 'No default auth service found'?
Troubleshoot 'Not Found 404' for index.php?
Troubleshoot not receiving an IP at boot?
Troubleshoot OverflowException Negative number
Troubleshoot performance issues?
Troubleshoot 'Permission denied: proxy' error?
Troubleshoot PHP Warnings?
Troubleshoot problems accessing my wiki after it sits overnight?
Troubleshoot problems running updateWiki.sh from behind a proxy server?
Troubleshoot 'Search is disabled'?
Troubleshoot 'Site settings could not be loaded'?
Troubleshoot 'Temporary failure in name resolution'?
Troubleshoot user pages not being created?
Troubleshoot 'Your wiki is down'?
Verify my database schema using CheckDb?

User Management: How do I...

Enable SSO for Active Directory with MindTouch installed on Windows
Allow anonymous user account creation?
Change the username of an External Authentication user?
Convert existing wiki users to external accounts such as LDAP?
Enable single sign on with Active Directory?
Give specific rights to a set of LDAP accounts?
Have users authenticate with email?
Integrate my users with LDAP/MS Active Directory?
Make my wiki unavailable to anonymous users?
Rename a user?
Set the default role for new LDAP / external accounts?
Use a 3rd party web site for authentication
Write a custom authentication provider in .Net
Write a custom authentication provider in any language?

File Management: How do I...

Add a new index-able file type?
Block/Unblock file extensions?
Configure image previews?
Enable indexing of Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OpenOffice Writer documents?
Increase the maximum attachment size?
Index file attachments?
Mass recreate image previews?
Perform bulk file operations?
Permanently delete a file?
Store my files on a Windows shared network drive?
Use Amazon S3 for attachments?

Page Management: How do I...

Add a Contact Form to my Wiki?
Add a link to a file share?
Add a link to a page section?
Add an RSS feed to a page?
Control page order in the navigation panel?
Create and insert a parameterized template?
Create and insert a template?
Create automated pages?
Disable comments on page?
Display a table of contents?
Display a video?
Display an attached file on a page?
Display content from another page?
Display content that is visible only in edit-mode?
Display syntax highlighting?
Do advanced content searches?
Embed a language translater in my page?
Enable unsafe content, such as iframe?
Get an overview of tags?
Get the feed for a single page?
Know what documents are indexed?
Make tables sortable?
Manually Redirect a page
Print or Export multiple pages to PDF?
Reduce the length of the summary for search results?
Restore a deleted page?
Use a custom template for new user pages?
Use the Transformations/Transform Content menu item?
View and Restore Page Revisions?

Editor: How do I...

modify the available fonts list?
Add a link to a new subpage while in the editor?
Add the "nowiki" style to the editor dropdown menu?
Add words to the aspell Dictionary?
change the Enter key from <p> to <br>?
Change the web based spell check to local Aspell
Configure FCKeditor settings?
Configure FCKeditor's toolbar?
Enable FCKeditor's built-in spell-checker?
Enable Firefox's Spell Checker?
Paste clipboard as plain text?
Switch to an alternate editor?
Toggle the browser context menu?
Use the syntax highlighter for technical content?

Deki VM: How do I...

Reset the date-time on the VM?
Upgrade Mono to 1.9.1

Migration: How do I...

Migrate from MediaWiki to MindTouch
Migrate from MoinMoin to MindTouch?
Move Deki Wiki from one Server to Another?
Recreate the MySQL stored functions and procedures?
Switch my package-based install to SVN

Testing and Contributing: How do I...

File a bug report?
Setup a Deki VM with latest SVN code?
Setup an API development environment?

Performance Tuning: How do I...

Enable caching for anonymous users?
Install eAccelerator for PHP?

Integration: How do I...

Install PHP apps on the VM?
Integrate Deki Wiki with Sharepoint 2007?
Integrate Deki with WordPress?
Integrate vBulletin?
Publish a text selection from any web page to a Deki page in one-click?

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