Manual:Preventing access

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access

# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

Grok

# Disable reading by anonymous users
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
 
# Disable editing by anonymous users
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

# Disable account creation by anonymous users
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; 

# Disable page creation by anonymous users
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false;

# Disable talk page creation by anonymous users
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createtalk'] = false;

Related

• access.log

See also

• /var/www/html/LocalSettings.php (file)
• access.log
• Mediawiki: Wikipedia, Install Mediawiki, Install Mediawiki using docker, Mediawiki Release Notes, Manual:Images, php-fpm, Scribunto, Restart mediawiki, NOTOC, /var/www/html/LocalSettings.php (file), wikiless, Nowiki, Wikiapiary, modules, templates, extensions, MediaWiki API, Pro.wiki, /maintenance, Performance