MediaWiki

2021-03-21T15:31:22Z

Gui:

[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] is a popular free web-based wiki software application developed by and used on all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as on many other wiki websites worldwide. It is written in the PHP programming language with a backend database.

== Install lighttpd, PHP, and postgresql ==

{{Cmd|apk add curl lighttpd php php-dom php-json php-pgsql php-cgi php-mbstring php-xml php-ctype php-fileinfo php-iconv php-zlib php-gd php-session imagemagick diffutils}}

Install extra packages

{{Cmd|apk add postgresql postgresql-client openrc}}

== Installing and configuring MediaWiki ==

Create a folder named {{Path|mediawiki}}

{{Cmd|mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/}}

Download the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki latest version]. At the time of writing it is 1.35.1

{{Cmd|cd /usr/share/webapps/
curl https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.1.tar.gz >mw.tar.gz}}

Unpack the archive, rename the folder and delete the tarball afterwards

{{Cmd|tar zxvf mw.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.35.1 mediawiki
rm mw.tar.gz}}

Change the folder permissions

{{Cmd|chown -R lighttpd /usr/share/webapps/}}

Crate a symlink to the {{Path|wordpress}} folder

{{Cmd|ln -s /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki}}

Edit lighttpd.conf and uncomment '''include "mod_fastcgi.conf"'''

{{Cmd|vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf}}

== Starting ==

{{Cmd|/etc/init.d/postgresql setup
/etc/init.d/postgresql start && rc-update add postgresql default
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default}}

== Config your wiki ==

Install the wiki accessing

http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php

When you finish, press "Install MediaWiki" button, and that's all. :)
You have MediaWiki working. To access go to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/mediawiki and enjoy!

=See Also=
*[[Converting mediawiki database from postgresql to mysql/mariadb]]

[[Category:SQL]]

MediaWiki

2021-03-21T15:17:55Z

Gui: included/edited info about installing version 1.35.

[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] is a popular free web-based wiki software application developed by and used on all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as on many other wiki websites worldwide. It is written in the PHP programming language with a backend database.

== Install lighttpd, PHP, and postgresql ==

{{Cmd|apk add curl lighttpd php php-dom php-json php-pgsql php-cgi php-mbstring php-xml php-ctype php-fileinfo php-iconv php-zlib php-gd php-session imagemagick diffutils}}

Install extra packages

{{Cmd|apk add postgresql postgresql-client openrc}}

== Installing and configuring MediaWiki ==

Create a folder named {{Path|mediawiki}}

{{Cmd|mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/}}

Download the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki latest version]. At the time of writing it is 1.35.1

{{Cmd|cd /usr/share/webapps/
curl https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.1.tar.gz >mw.tar.gz}}

Unpack the archive, rename the folder and delete the tarball afterwards

{{Cmd|tar zxvf mw.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.35.1 mediawiki
rm mw.tar.gz}}

Change the folder permissions

{{Cmd|chown -R lighttpd /usr/share/webapps/}}

Crate a symlink to the {{Path|wordpress}} folder

{{Cmd|ln -s /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki}}

Edit lighttpd.conf and uncomment '''include "mod_fastcgi.conf"'''

{{Cmd|vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf}}

Restart lighttpd service

{{Cmd|rc-service lighttpd restart}}

== Starting ==

{{Cmd|/etc/init.d/postgresql setup
/etc/init.d/postgresql start && rc-update add postgresql default
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default}}

== Config your wiki ==

Install the wiki accessing

http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php

When you finish, press "Install MediaWiki" button, and that's all. :)
You have MediaWiki working. To access go to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/mediawiki and enjoy!

=See Also=
*[[Converting mediawiki database from postgresql to mysql/mariadb]]

[[Category:SQL]]

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