Help:Access Restrictions

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Configuration changes can be inserted into LocalSettings.php and must generally appear below the line:

require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" );

• In order to prevent new user registrations, the following line could be added to the LocalSettings.php file:

 $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "sysop" => 1, "developer" => 1 );

Note: New users will still be able to be created by sysops, in the following manner:

Go to [[Special:Userlogin]], when logged in as a sysop. Enter a username and an email address, and click the "by email" button. The account will be created with a random password which is then emailed to the given address.

• By adding the following line to LocalSettings.php, it is possible to entirely disable anonymous edits:

  #Entirely disable Anonymous Edits
  $wgWhitelistEdit = true;

In 1.5 (MediaWiki Install/includes/DefaultSettings.php):

  $wgGroupPermissions = array();
  $wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['createaccount']   = true;
  $wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['read']            = true;
  $wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['edit']            = true;

Comment (#) out permissions you wish to disable for anonymous users, or add the specific lines to LocalSettings.php, setting the value = false;.

• If you want anonymous users not to be able to read or edit your MediaWiki, add this line to your LocalSettings.php:

# Pages anonymous (not-logged-in) users may see
$wgWhitelistRead = array ("Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "Wikipedia:Help");

This way anonymous users can only see the Main Page, the user login page and the help page.

Caution: if your MediaWiki is in a language different than English, you need to translate the titles in the array. For instance, in Spanish the line will look like this one:

 $wgWhitelistRead = array ("Portada", "Especial:Userlogin", "MiWiki:Ayuda");

You may find more information about user access restriction on Setting user rights in MediaWiki

• To prevent a special page from being listed at [[Special:Specialpages]], edit SpecialPage.php and change the relevant entry to be an instance of UnlistedSpecialPage instead of SpecialPage.

See also: Help:User levels, m:Page access restriction with MediaWiki, and Hidden pages

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Question: I want it so only registered users can edit the page itself but still allow general (anonymous) access to Discuss this page/Post a comment. Can this be done?

New Answer: Yes. See Here.