Mediawiki

Installation

Prerequisites:

Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS and Debian Stretch include PHP 7.0, and renamed many packages from "php5" to plain "php". Some PHP modules are now in separate packages (xml, mbstring):

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php php-mysql libapache2-mod-php php-xml php-mbstring

Ubuntu Trusty, Debian Jessie and Raspbian (Jessie) include PHP 5, and use "php5" in most (but not all) packages:

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5

Get MediaWiki

cd Downloads
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.28/mediawiki-1.28.2.tar.gz

Extract in your Web directory

tar -xvzf /pathtofile/mediawiki-*.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/mediawiki
sudo mv mediawiki-*/* /var/www/html/mediawiki

Configure MySQL

mysqladmin -u root password "enter the new password here"

Optional: Configure PHP

Change Maximum upload file size in File Uploads section to

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
upload_max_filesize = 20M

Memory limit

memory_limit = 128M

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Backup

Using Script

Installation

mysqldump -u root -ppwd@123 my_wiki | gzip > /home/aman/Backup/my_wiki-$(date +"%d-%b-%Y").sql.gz
echo "$(date +"%d-%b-%Y"): MYSQL DB backup done" >> /home/aman/Backup/status.log
sleep 2
tar cfz /home/aman/Backup/images-$(date +"%d-%b-%Y").tar.gz /var/www/html/images/
echo "$(date +"%d-%b-%Y"): Images Backup Done" >> /home/aman/Backup/status.log
sleep 2
tar cfz /home/aman/Backup/LocalSettings-$(date +"%d-%b-%Y").tar.gz /var/www/html/LocalSettings.php
echo "$(date +"%d-%b-%Y"): LocalSettings Backup done" >> /home/aman/Backup/status.log
exit

If you dont want gzip compression:

mysqldump -u root -ppwd@123 my_wiki > /home/aman/Backup/my_wiki-$(date +"%H%M%S-%d-%b-%Y").sql   

• Run Backup every week at 5:00AM:

* 5 * * 1 /home/aman/backup-wiki.sh 2>&1 >> /home/aman/Backup/cron_output.log

• Logrotate:

sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/backup-wiki

/home/aman/Backup/*.sql.gz {
    weekly
    missingok
    rotate 3
    maxage 7
    compress
    notifempty
}

sudo logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf --debug --force

Restoring From Backup

Restore Images

php mediawiki/maintenance/importImages.php --search-recursively images/

Rebuild all

php mediawiki/maintenance/php5 rebuildall.php

Using Dumpgenerator

Source: github.comgithub.com

Install Poetry:

curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

Install Dumpgenerator:

git clone https://github.com/mediawiki-client-tools/mediawiki-dump-generator
cd mediawiki-dump-generator
poetry update && poetry install && poetry build
pip3 install --force-reinstall dist/*.whl

If you are getting an error for dependancies:

pip3 install lxml==4.9.4
sudo apt install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python3-dev

Generate Backup:

dumpgenerator --xml --images --api https://aman.awiki.org/w/api.php --index https://aman.awiki.org/w/index.php --bypass-cdn-image-compression https://aman.awiki.org

Restoring Backup:

Source: meta.miraheze.org

References

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