Re: [PLUG] MediaWiki configuration
Could you elaborate on your problems? I am a MediaWiki user. --- Michael Rasmussen Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity On 2023-04-20 19:25, Keith Lofstrom wrote: Any recent MediaWiki deployers on the list? For many years, I have operated many old MoinMoin (Python) wikis on many old distros. MoinMoin isn't getting much maintenance attention, while Python is evolving beyond compatibility with MoinMoin code. MediaWiki (PHP), the engine underneath Wikipedia, currently has the majority share of new wiki deployments, and is actively (perhaps TOO actively) maintained and enhanced. So, I hope to "futureproof" my wikis by converting them to MediaWiki. There are cheesy scripts for that. As I write this, I have not yet successfully configured a functional MediaWiki instance. There are many tutorials online about that, but most are years out of date. For example, procedures for setting up mysql, rather than the current mariaDB. I'm probably not asking the right questions or looking at the best tutorial websites. IF YOU HAVE SET UP MEDIAWIKI RECENTLY, CAN YOU POINT ME AT GOOD /RECENT/ TUTORIALS? Perhaps the most useful thing would be an "ls -lR" listing of the files and programs and libraries used by a recent implementation of MediaWiki, so I know what files are supposed to be there, permissions and ownerships and sizes. And yes, I will sign an NDA if necessary, and can even offer boilerplate forms for that. Keith L. P.S.; I know there are rental MediaWikiFarms, but I hope to continue integrating my wikis with legacy html pages and online executables. MediaWiki has many extensions that might help with this.
Re: [PLUG] MediaWiki configuration
My guess is that it's not the MediaWiki install that's the problem it's the dependencies. On Ubuntu for example if you install apache first then php, it won't enable mod_php and may not even install it. This causes endless problems with people who don't have a lot of experience installing this kind of software on Linux. MediaWiki does have a installation requirements page that gives, for example a generic install line for a fresh ubuntu installation that would install php and all of the dependencies properly but if the system is already setup and installed then it may not do it properly. But of course, MediaWiki's page on doing this does NOT discuss all of the dependencies of the MediaWiki dependencies they are telling you to install so it's pretty lame - typical of UNIX man pages, it's only useful to someone who already knows what's in the man page. LOL. If Keith is trying to install MediaWiki on a system that already has MoinMoin on it, and run both of them in parallel on the same system that may require some advanced configuration. Keith, here is a soup-to-nuts install instruction set for you. It only took me 1.5 hours to make up, it's easy. Note that the actual MediaWiki install only took about 15 minutes the rest was the server setup. It assumes a fresh Ubuntu 20 virtual image install on Amazon Web Services. I'll leave the image up and running for a week and if you want to SSH into it then send me a userID and password you want to use and I'll setup a shell account you can use to login and look at the files and such. The wiki is here: https://media.portlandia-servers.com/w/index.php/Main_Pageand it's online now. Instructions: Setup a free account on AWS https://aws.amazon.com/console/ Login to AWS portal as root user and go to EC2 Dashboard Click Instances Click dropdown on Launch Instances and Launch Instance Name it "MediaWiki Test Server" under Quickstart click Ubuntu Leave it at Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS free tier eligible Leave Architecture at 64 bit x86 Under Instance type leave it at t2.micro free tier eligible Under key pair create a new key pair named "TESTMasterKeyPair" Download it. Under Firewall leave at Create security group and tick allow SSH and allow https and http Select 30GB of standard (mag media) root volume NOT encrypted) storage click Launch Instance Click back on EC2, Instances Click on the Instance ID Copy the Public IPv4 DNS name in this case ec2-34-217-63-231.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com Optionally CNAME it your DNS provider to some name. Download private key file you created earlier On windows, Browse to c:\program files\putty and run puttygen Click Load on existing private key Click Save and save it as the ppk file do not add a passphrase In Putty click Connection -> SSH -> Auth -> Credentials and load the ppk file Use putty to initially ssh in: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html From Linux, ssh -i " TESTMasterKeyPair.pem" ubu...@ec2-34-217-63-231.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com After SSHing into the system with ID of ubuntu, sudo -s adduser tedm, password whateveryouwant add tedm into admin group, vi /etc/group go to /etc/ssh and modify sshd_config to have a YES in PasswordAuthentication reboot Now you can SSH in via a real SSH client like Teraterm normally instead of a stripped down emulator like putty Give it a minute or to to finish rebooting then Ssh into ec2-34-217-63-231.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com In the new server it's hostname is tedm@ip-172-31-20-73:~$ cat /etc/hostname ip-172-31-20-73 tedm@ip-172-31-20-73:~$ Optionally, set domain name to what you want. I'll use media.portlandia-servers.com for fun sudo -s change hostname to what you want vi /etc/hostname root@ip-172-31-20-73:/home/tedm# cat /etc/hostname media root@ip-172-31-20-73:/home/tedm# then set your hostname in /etc/hosts root@ip-172-31-20-73:/home/tedm# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 media.portlandia-servers.com media 127.0.0.1 localhost # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback apt update apt dist-upgrade ok on newer kernel reboot ssh into media.portlandia-servers.com sudo -s apt install php this installs php 8.1 and apache and mod-php8.1 apt install php-mysql apt install mysql-server this puts in mysql 8 client and server From the line out of the mediaserver wiki install instructions here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirements (strike the mariadb-server) apt-get install php php-apcu php-intl php-mbstring php-xml php-mysql php-calendar apache2 Now setup mysql: mysql_secure_installation No on validate password when it goes into the loop asking for the password then erroring it, in another ssh session pkill -f mysql_secure_installation this leaves mysql open. As sudo -s in the first session root@media:/home/tedm# mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL
