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In case you want to use the MediaWiki only private and not open to the public, you can secure it by using Authentication in Apache plus the option Private wiki. Securing your MediaWiki for strict private use The term Virtual Host refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as and ) on a single machine.įinally you should secure your MediaWiki by redirecting all requests to use SSL/TLS in order to protect the sign-in with username and password.įor this post I only create a HTTP Port 80 VirtualHost file. To configure the Apache web server we create a virtual host file for our MediaWiki website. # to change the permissions you can run the following commands inside your MediaWiki folder.Ĭreate/Configure Virtual Host File in Apache # Finally the folder permissions should set to 755 and file permissions to 644. # Not all versions of chmod support the ugo±rwx syntax scheme. # permissions for the user that owns the file. # go-rwx removes read, write, e xecute permissions from the group and other users. # go-w removes write permissions from the group and other users. $ sudo chmod -R go-w /var/www/mediawiki/html/ # remove write access from all other users and groups besides the file owners $ sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/mediawiki/html/images # so MediaWiki needs to be able to write there # change the owner of the image directory to the PHP/Apache user www-data as uploaded files need to go there, $ sudo mv -v /var//var/www/mediawiki/html/ # move the files inside that folder to the final html folder on what our virtual hosts file in Apache will point later for the web root $ sudo cp -r mediawiki-1.36.1 /var/www/mediawiki/ # copy the extracted MediaWiki files to that folder # creating a dedicated folder for the MediaWiki in the web root You will find the latest stable version on the following site $ sudo add-apt-repository -remove ppa:ondrej/phpīefore I will configure the Apache web server, I will first download and extract the latest stable version of MediaWiki to the web root folder. To remove the repository you can do it as follow

#INSTALL MEDIAWIKI INSTALL#

$ sudo apt-get install php8.0-cli php8.0-common libapache2-mod-php8.0 php8.0 php8.0-mysql php8.0-fpm php8.0-curl php8.0-gd php-mbstring php8.0-xml php8.0-intl You can check the installed version with $ sudo apt install software-properties-common To install PHP on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS you first have to add the Ondrej PHP repository to install it afterwards as used to. $ sudo apt install mysql-server You can check the installed version with You can install MySql 8.0 by using the default repository from Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS which will install MySql 8.0.26. $ sudo apt-get install apache2 You can check the installed version with download and extract MediaWiki to the web root folderįirst we will install the Apache web server as follows.install and configure the Apache web server.

#INSTALL MEDIAWIKI SOFTWARE#

This user is important even if you plan to create a different one for yourself later, because it has administrator privileges, so if you want to give yourself administrator privileges (and you will), you'll have to do it via that user.In this post I want to go through the separate steps, to set up the open source software MediaWiki on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS.

#INSTALL MEDIAWIKI PASSWORD#

Since LocalSettings.php is not there, MediaWiki will guide you on the browser through a series of steps where you have to specify the wiki's name, the name of the database to be created, and other settings, including the username and password for the wiki's first user (by default, the username is 'WikiSysop '). LocalSettings.php is the initialization file for MediaWiki, holding all the user-modifiable settings for the wiki we'll get to many of them over the course of this book.

#INSTALL MEDIAWIKI CODE#

At that point, assuming you have PHP, a database system and a web server running, the MediaWiki code should get executed correctly, and it will then look for a file called LocalSettings.php – by default, it's not there, and its absence tells MediaWiki that this is a new installation. Once you've downloaded the main MediaWiki code, go to the URL for that code in a browser.

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