Mediawiki

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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 Script

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



References





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