MediaWiki - gdamjan/gdamjan.github.io GitHub Wiki

Some notes on MediaWiki installation. The wiki will be installed on the root url on the domain, even though that setup is not recommended by mediawiki.

• MediaWiki will be unpacked in /srv/wiki.example.net (and it will create the mediawiki-x.yy.z top dir there);
• Uploaded files will go to /srv/wiki.example.net/uploads;
• robots.txt and favicon.ico will be in /srv/wiki.example.net

These extensions are needed, and must be enabled in php.ini:

extension=gd.so
extension=mysql.so
extension=zlib.so
extension=sockets.so
extension=iconv.so
extension=mbstring.so
extension=dba.so

{{{#!apache <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName wiki.example.net DocumentRoot "/srv/wiki.example.net"

Alias /icons/ "/usr/share/httpd/icons/" Alias /robots.txt "/srv/wiki.example.net/robots.txt" Alias /favicon.ico "/srv/wiki.example.net/favicon.ico" Alias /images "/srv/wiki.example.net/uploads/"

1. direct access for css, js and apis Alias /skins "/srv/wiki.example.net/mediawiki-1.18.1/skins/" Alias /extensions "/srv/wiki.example.net/mediawiki-1.18.1/extensions/" Alias /api.php "/srv/wiki.example.net/mediawiki-1.18.1/api.php/" Alias /load.php "/srv/wiki.example.net/mediawiki-1.18.1/load.php/"

1. this one is needed only for the instalation (and upgrades) Alias /mediawiki-1.18.1/ "/srv/wiki.example.net/mediawiki-1.18.1/"

Alias /index.php "/srv/wiki.example.net/mediawiki-1.18.1/index.php/" Alias / "/srv/wiki.example.net/mediawiki-1.18.1/index.php/"

<Directory "/srv/wiki.example.net"> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> }}}

This file instructs crawlers to avoid pages that are expensive and generally not needed in indexes:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /index.php/
Disallow: /mediawiki-1.18.1/
Disallow: /Special:Search
Disallow: /Special:Random

Make sure at least these settings are correct in LocalSettings.php:

$wgScriptPath       = "";
$wgArticlePath      = '/$1';
$wgUsePathInfo      = true;
$wgUploadDirectory  = "/srv/wiki.example.net/uploads";

If Apache config file is not editable, this .htaccess might work:

{{{#!apache RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^favicon.ico$ - [L] RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ - [L]

RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ uploads/$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^skins/(.*)$ mediawiki/skins/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^extensions/(.*)$ mediawiki/extensions/$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^api.php$ mediawiki/api.php [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^load.php$ mediawiki/load.php [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^index.php/(.*)$ mediawiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^$ mediawiki/index.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ mediawiki/index.php?title=$1 [NS,L,QSA] }}}

  # media wiki
  location /resources {
    alias /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/resources/;
  }
  location /skins {
    alias /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/skins/;
  }

  location / {
    include uwsgi_params;
    uwsgi_pass 127.0.0.1:3035;
    uwsgi_modifier1 14;
  }

[uwsgi]
master = true
socket = 127.0.0.1:3035
plugins = php

php-docroot = /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki
php-allowed-ext = /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/index.php
php-allowed-ext = /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/load.php
php-allowed-ext = /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/api.php
# this is required only for the installation wizard
#php-allowed-ext = /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/mw-config/index.php
php-set = open_basedir=/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/usr/share/webapps/mediawiki:/var/lib/mediawiki/
php-set = date.timezone=Europe/Skopje
processes = 5
cheaper = 1
chdir = /var/lib/mediawiki/