[Pmwiki-users] Re: Another Question

[Menachem Shapiro]

B"H

The $WhiteUrlPatterns doesn't seem to be working for me.

I put this in my config.php:
 $WhiteUrlPatterns = "http://example.com/ | http://example.net/ |
http://example.org/"

but when I tested a post of http://example.com/, I still got an
Approve Sites link next to it. Also, are the urls in $WhitUrlPatterns
supposed to show up in Main.ApprovedUrls?

Thanks,
Menachem 



On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:09:45 -0700, Patrick R. Michaud
<pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 08:15:06AM +0000, Ciaran wrote:
> > I've cc'd Pm in, incase I mis-explain something to you  :)
> > > I'm assuming that we will be able to block abusers if and when need be,
> > > or restrict access later.
> > Not at the minute, see my earlier point about an outstanding feature
> > request (PITS 0010 I think..)
> 
> It depends what sort of abusers you're wanting to block.  If you're
> worried about wiki spam, one of the best ways to do this is to
> use the urlapprove.php script that comes with the distribution.
> This script allows a site to distinguish between "approved" and
> "unapproved" urls, and a list of approved urls can be
> maintained.  Any url that is not approved is not converted to a link;
> furthermore, any post that contains too many unapproved URLs is
> automatically rejected.  (Spammers seem to want to post lots of
> unapproved links, so this is pretty effective.)
> 
> This is the method that is being used on pmwiki.org; since I began
> this wikispam abuse has not been an issue even though the wiki is
> an open one.  More details on this below.
> 
> If you're concerned about abuse coming from people simply destroying
> each other's posts, then password-protecting only those selected pages in
> which this is occurring is probably a sufficient response.
> 
> And yes, user-based authorization is slated for inclusion in an
> upcoming release.
> 
> Okay, back to url approvals.  To enable this for your site, simply
> add the following to local/config.php:
> 
>     include_once('scripts/urlapprove.php');
> 
> This causes links to external sites to be listed on an "approval page"
> (normally Main.ApprovedUrls) before the system will automatically
> convert them into links.  Any external links not listed on the approval
> page are not converted into links and are displayed with an
> "(approve links)" button.  Pressing the "approve links" button will
> add all unapproved links on the page to Main.ApprovedUrls, thus
> approving them.  The Main.ApprovedUrls page can be password-protected
> to limit the url approval capability.
> 
> You can experiment with this capability on pmwiki.org -- just create a
> page somewhere in the Main group and place a link to an external site
> on it.  It will then be marked as needing approval.  The password for
> approving URLs on pmwiki.org is "quick".
> 
> Finally, to block posts that contain too many unapproved external urls,
> simply set the following in config.php:
> 
>     $UnapprovedLinkCountMax = 10;
> 
> If you want to disable the url approval requirement for selected pages
> or groups, you can simply set the following in the corresponding page
> or group configuration file:
> 
>     $EnableUrlApprovedRequired = 0;
> 
> I do this on pmwiki.org for the Test, PITS, and Cookbook groups, as well
> as for Main.WikiSandbox.
> 
> I know there's a lot of information here, so if there are any questions,
> feel free to ask.
> 
> Pm
> 
> 
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