If you use a dual monitor or switch resolutions a lot, you have probably come across this problem. You’re using your Windows application and it pops up a dialog box. Only problem is, the dialog box is off of the screen. D’oh! That has happened to me on multiple occasions until one time when I had enough and googled it. Turns out there is a nice easy solution.

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• Filed on January 30, 2008

The problem is this: How do you get MediaWiki which runs on top of XAMPP to be secure using Active Directory?

We wanted to secure our MediaWiki site so that users can log in using their Active Directory account. In addition we wanted only some users to be able to read the Wiki pages and a smaller subset of those users to be able to edit pages.

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• Filed on January 28, 2008