MediaWiki

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Installation and configuration

MySQL database server and PHP

For more info: MySQL 

sudo apt-get install install apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql

MediaWiki website files

Download the code and copy to /var/www/mediawiki

Edit LocalSettings.php to add extensions and to customize.

Configuration LocalSettings.php

sudo gedit /var/www/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php
#GeshiHighlight, download from http://qbnz.com/highlighter/
require_once("$IP/extensions/GeshiHighlight.php");
$wgSyntaxHighlightDefaultLang = "bash";

# Disable reading by anonymous users
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
 
# But allow them to access the login page or else there will be no way to log in!
$wgWhitelistRead = array ("Special:Userlogin", "MediaWiki:Common.css", 
"MediaWiki:Common.js", "MediaWiki:Monobook.css", "MediaWiki:Monobook.js", "-");
 
# Disable anonymous editing
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
 
# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

# Custom favorite icon /mediawiki/favicon.ico
$wgFavicon = "$wgScriptPath/favicon.ico";

# Enable uploads to .../mediawiki/images
$wgEnableUploads = true;

Apache2 webserver configuration

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/http_wilbertvolkers.dyndns.org
<VirtualHost *:80>
	Servername mediawiki.wilbertvolkers.dyndns.org
	
	#redirect UserLogin page to https
	# you will need to configure your https as well
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mediawiki/index.php$
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^title=Special:UserLogin
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R]

	DocumentRoot /var/www/
	Alias /mediawiki/ /var/www/mediawiki/
	<Directory /var/www/mediawiki/>
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	LogLevel warn
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

	ServerSignature Off
</VirtualHost>

If you login using http your password will be send over the net in 'clear text'. To force login via https the RewriteRule is added, however, you will also need to configure the SSL part of your website. Read Create certificates for Apache2.

The mediawiki - part in the configuration file will look something like this: 

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/https_wilbertvolkers.dyndns.org
...

<VirtualHost *:443>
	...

	# mediawiki directory https
	Alias /mediawiki/ /var/www/mediawiki/
	<Directory /var/www/mediawiki/>
		SSLRequireSSL
		AllowOverride None
		Order deny,allow
		Allow from all
	</Directory>

	...

</VirtualHost>

Categories

Use categories to group your pages by including one or more Category tags: 

 [[Category:Name]]

Try to distribute your pages evenly over categories, first look here if any of the available categories can be used:

Special:Categories

Tips

The tooltips will show you the letter of the shortcut between brackets. You need to press SHIFT+ALT+<letter> to use it.

Shortcuts:

  • SHIFT+ALT+Z main page
  • SHIFT+ALT+E start edit (if allowed)
    • you can also right click on the section or click the [edit] link
  • SHIFT+ALT+P preview
  • SHIFT+ALT+S save
  • SHIFT+ALT+C cancel

Modify the [edit] link to be smaller with "myskin": 

sudo gedit /var/www/mediawiki/skins/myskin/main.css
/* change edit-link size */
span.editsection {
	font-size: 30%;
	float: right;
	margin-left: 5px;
}

See also

Go to Apache2 webserver to read about installing and configuring Apache2 webserver.

Accidentally committed information that really needs to be removed? Go to: Permanently remove a MediaWiki revision using SQL.

MediaWiki help pages

Extensions

Other sources

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