WikiServer - Install

Proven on Mint 19.3

NOT Proven on SparkyLinux 5.11 ... (MySQL on SparkyLinux may be problematic)

Install the LAMP Stack

Basic LAMP Stack Install

Install MediaWiki

• wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.34/mediawiki-1.34.1.tar.gz
• tar -xvzf mediawiki-*.tar.gz
• sudo mkdir /var/www/html/wiki
• sudo mkdir /var/www/html/labnotes
• sudo cp -r mediawiki-*/* /var/www/html/wiki
• sudo cp -r mediawiki-*/* /var/www/html/labnotes
• sudo mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE my_wiki;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON my_wiki.* TO 'someone'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
CREATE DATABASE my_notes;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON my_notes.* TO 'someone'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

• sudo vim /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
  • (this may be in a slightly different location depending on version of php installed...)
  • increase upload_max_filesize to 200M
• Fix upload directories:
  • sudo chmod -R ugo+rwX /var/www/html/wiki/images
  • sudo chmod -R ugo+rwX /var/www/html/labnotes/images

Browse to http://ServerAddress/wiki & follow the steps presented.

Set it as Authorised editors only.

Browse to http://ServerAddress/labnotes & follow the steps presented.

Set as Private Wiki

Troubleshooting

Note: With MySQL 8, there is some possibility that it will default to the wrong authentication method.

• If Mediawiki has problems connecting & gives you "The server requested authentication method unknown to the client." as part of the error message, sign back into MySQL & adjust the user being assigned in the wiki install:
  • sudo mysql -u root -p
  • ALTER USER 'someone'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';