Changing the Password
Assuming the archive has been already uploaded you need to overwrite the default password with a secure password of your choice.
The default password is specified in the php configuration file of the site. You find the configuration file config.php in in the local folder of the site. To change the default password, we change all lines of the following form:
$DefaultPasswords[...] = '$1$8N78M0E0$hOkTbJ4tfHOblV7DEc7JB/';
In order to prevent the password to appear as plain text in the config file, it is encrypted as a string in single quotes. To replace that string with your own encrypted password, append ?action=crypt to the address of your web site in the browser and hit enter. You can now type your personal password into a web form and see the corresponding encrypted string. Then you need to put that string in the config file and upload it to the server again.
That’s it! The site is ready.
Q How can I restrict access to the site?
The default installation will protect the content from modification, but all the content is visible in the entire internet. To restrict certain pages to be viewed or modified by a group of registered users, see the pmwiki Installation and Password page for more details. This wiki includes the full documentation of PmWiki, so that you may also search for PmWiki related information like “password” in the search form on the right. The PmWiki documentation index is available as a quick link in the side bar.
Q How can I restrict access to a group?
See the Passwords documentation!
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