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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]

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Dependencies

Apache and PHP: (for Ubuntu 22)

sudo apt install apache2 php mysql-server mysql-client

For covenience:

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.

PHP Extensions:

mbstring
xml
intl
(database driver)
- php-mysql

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

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