Mediawiki Installation

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Set up a Debian server virtual machine where the user will be your first and last name's initial. Mine would be vicentf.

Once configured, install the network tools and a apache2 web server. Last is a free web server and open source that allows us hosting our wiki.

sudo apt install net-tools

sudo apt install apache2

We are going to install php and the extensions that are need to mediawiki works:

sudo apt install php

sudo apt install php-mysql

sudo apt install php-mbstring

sudo apt install php-xml

sudo apt install php-intl

sudo apt install libapache2-mod-php

To continue, we need a database manager that will save all wiki information about users, pages, configuration... There are different kind of database managers but Mariadb is the best to use with Mediawiki according to the documentation. So install and set up mariadb server:

sudo apt install mariadb-server

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Once installed, we need to create the database for our wiki. This will be called wikivf_db (each of you with your initials). We will create a user with wikivf username (vf will be your initials) and give privileges to everything. In the creation documentation, the user must be created to localhost but we use % to access the database from any computer. SCREENSHOT

sudo mariadb

CREATE DATABASE wikivf_db;

CREATE USER 'wikivf'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'wikivf';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wikivf_db.* TO 'wikivf'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Before proceeding, the database settings must be changed so that it can accept requests from any IP. If we go to the file:

/etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf

We must comment with a # this line: bind-address=127.0.0.1 and we write in new line after this the next one: bind-address=0.0.0.0

After that, restart sql service:

sudo service mariadb restart

To install the application, first step is download it from the server. With wget command line and an url, we get the program in the folder where we run the command. The application will be compressed in a tar.gz file, so after download we unzip file. Once we have the application folder, we will move to /var/lib with name mediawiki:

wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.38/mediawiki-1.38.4.zip

tar xvf mediawiki-1.XX.0.tar.gz

cd /var/lib

sudo mkdir mediawiki

sudo mv ~/mediawiki-1.XX.0/* mediawiki

Before install, we must create a symbolic link in web folder. When we use apache2 as a web server, default folder to put our web pages is /var/www/html. So we will create the symbolic link from /var/lib/mediawiki to /var/www/html:

cd /var/www/html

sudo ln -s /var/lib/mediawiki mediawiki

SCREENSHOT of any step

Access to the next url to go to installation: IP_SERVER/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php

We will see next pages:

1. Choose language: you can use spanish or valencian

2. Checking environment: in this step it will show us uncomplete and complete settings to Mediawiki works properly

3. Connect to database:

   1. IP server

   2. Database name

   3. Database username

   4. Database user password

4. Other parameters

5. Name

   1. Name: Wiki Name Surname

   2. Project spots: the same

   3. Username: wikivf (set vf with your initials)

   4. Password (please, remember the password)

6. Other options

   1. Open wiki

   2. Copyright and license: without license

   3. Editors: codeeditor, visualeditor and wikieditor

   4. Extensions: CategoryTree

7. Installation

When it finishes, it will download a LocalSettings.php file that you must put on mediawiki folder using scp command line. Tip: first step scp the file to home folder and after that use mv command to move to mediawiki folder.

scp file username@ip:/folder #from local to the server

scp username@ip:/path_to_file folder #from server to local

SCREENSHOTS

• Main page where we can see tab title

• LocalSettings file:

  • Wiki name, meta_namespace, scriptpath and ip address

  • Database settings

  • Installed extensions