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
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 imagemagick diffutils
Install extra packages
apk add postgresql postgresql-client openrc
Installing and configuring MediaWiki
Create a folder named webapps
mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/
Download
cd /usr/share/webapps/ curl https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.26/mediawiki-1.26.2.tar.gz >mw.tar.gz
Unpack the archive and delete the tarball afterwards
tar zxvf mw.tar.gz rm mw.tar.gz
Change the folder permissions
chown -R lighttpd /usr/share/webapps/
Crate a symlink to the wordpress folder
ln -s /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki
Starting
/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
Browse
http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/config/index.php
- Site config
You need to set:
Wiki name: Contact e-mail: Language: Copyright/license: Admin username: Password: Password confirm: Object caching: Memcached servers: E-mail features (global): User-to-user e-mail: E-mail notification about changes: E-mail address authentication: Database type: PostgreSQL Database host: Database name: DB username: DB password: DB password confirm: Superuser account: Superuser name: Superuser password: Database port: Schema for mediawiki: Schema for tsearch2:
When you finish, press "Install MediaWiki" button, and thats all. :) You have MediaWiki working, to access go to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/mediawiki and enjoy!