MediaWiki

What is 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.

Set up MediaWiki on Alpine Linux

This document will be a quick c/p guide to setup MediaWiki on Alpine linux. What we will setup is the following:

Lighttpd with PHP
Postgresql
MediaWiki

Install lighttpd, PHP, and postgresql

Basic Installation

For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index

Install the required packages:

# apk add lighttpd php82 fcgi php82-cgi

Configure Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

...
include "mod_fastcgi.conf"
...

Edit mod_fastcgi.conf (/etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf), find and change /usr/bin/php-cgi to /usr/bin/php-cgi82.

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf

...
"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi82" # php-cgi
...

Start `lighttpd` service and add it to default runlevel

# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default

Install extra packages

apk add postgresql postgresql-client

Installing and configuring MediaWiki

Install MediaWiki

Make webapps folder

mkdir /usr/share/webapps/ -p

Download

cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.16/mediawiki-1.16.5.tar.gz

Unpack

gunzip mediawiki-1.16.5.tar.gz tar xvf mediawiki-1.16.5.tar rm -R mediawiki-1.16.5.tar

Make Symlink to the wiki

ln -s /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki-1.16.5/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/

Starting

Starting http and sql server and adding to boot

/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!