Let's go ahead and enable TeX on our wiki. You will need to have access to your LocalSettings.php
file to do this, so make sure that you have cPanel or your FTP program for this exercise. We have made changes to this file before so you shouldn't be worried about this at all.
1. Using either cPanel or your FTP program, open up the backend to your site.
2. Navigate to your
public_html
folder and expand it.3. Open your
LocalSettings.php
file for editing.4. Find the line that reads
$wgUseTeX = false
;.5. Change the word
false
totrue
.6. Save your changes.
By going into the filesystem of our website, we located the LocalSettings.php
file and made the necessary change to enable TeX markups on our wiki. Now, we can go ahead and use the<math>
tag to insert mathematical symbols. We also learned that even if we enable this, we still have to have our hosting provider install TeX and provide us with the path, so we can define this also in our LocalSettings...