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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." [1]

Dependencies

Apache and PHP: (for Ubuntu 22)

sudo apt install apache2 php mysql-server mysql-client

PHP Extensions:

mbstring
xml
intl
(database driver)
- php-mysql

sudo apt install php-mbstring php-xml php-intl php-mysql
sudo service apache2 restart

Object Caching (optional)

APCu or
WinCache

sudo apt install php-apcu

GD library or ImageMagick (optional for thumbnailing)

sudo apt install php-gd
sudo apt install imagemagick
  /usr/bin/convert

Git (optional for Special:Version)

sudo apt install git
  /usr/bin/git

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Warning: Requests for images in your uploads directory should answer with the HTTP header X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff to protect browsers from potentially unsafe files.
It is highly recommended to configure appropriate response headers on your webserver before enabling uploads.

Upload security

Upload security - Manual:Security - MediaWiki
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Security#Upload_security

<Directory "/...">
  # Tell browsers to not sniff files
  Header set X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
</Directory>

Dependency Check

For convenience:

sudo ln -s /var/www/html /www

Test php:

echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /www/phptest.php

http://x.x.x.x/phpinfo.php

Look for MySQL and obviously the processed php page.

Installation & Upgrading

For Installation and Upgrading procedures, see MediaWiki/Installation article.

Basics:

cd /www
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.41/mediawiki-1.41.0.tar.gz
tar -zvxf mediawiki-1.41.0.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.41.0  wiki
cd wiki

Give write permission (not required, but then you will have to manually write the config files at the end):

# sudo chown apache mw-config
sudo chown www-data mw-config

Run through the configuration:

http://example.com/wiki/mw-config/index.php

Guide:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide

Download:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

Old 1.24.1 Reference

wget releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.24/mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz
tar -zvxf mediawiki-1.24.1.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.24.1  wiki
cd wiki
sudo chown apache mw-config

Clear History

cd maintenance
php  deleteOldRevisions.php --delete

ref: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteOldRevisions.php

MediaWiki Namespace

keywords