Configuration Miki's Kiwi Wiki on Noekeon.org

Reference

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list

Wiki Configuration

• Updated MediaWiki:Common.css.
  • Support class="wikitable" (MediaWiki).
  • Support for Template:Hidden
  • Custom style for GeSHi
• Updated MediaWiki:Common.js
  • Support for Template:Hidden
  • Support for Template:Hide, Template:Hide all,Template:Show all, Template:Hide show all, Template:Toggle.
• Added a few templates:
  • Template:Pl2
  • Template:Hl2
  • Template:Hidden (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia:NavFrame and [[1]])
  • Template:Hide, Template:Hide all, Template:Show all, Template:Hide show all, Template:Toggle (see [2])
• Updated MediaWiki:Sidebar

Host-Side Configuration

• Wiki configuration settings during install:

Field	Value	Field	Value
Wiki name	miki	email address auth	enabled
contact e-mail ($wgEmergencyContact)	miki@noekeon.org	($wgDBtype) database type	MySQL
Language	en - English	($wgDBserver) database host	mysqlhost (as said on Priorweb's controlpanel)
Copyright	no license	($wgDBname) database name	mikiwiki
Admin username	mikiadmin	($wgDBuser) DB username	miki
Admin pwd	********	($wgDBpassword) DB password	********
Object caching	no caching	su account	<unchecked>
Email features	enabled	DB table prefix	<none>
user-to-user email	enabled	Storage engine	InnoDB
email notification	enabled (discussion & watchlist)	database character set	MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary

• File LocalSettings.inc.php:
  • Enable file upload.
  • Set logo (from http://sneak.co.nz/kiwi/ - resized to 135x135 max)

$wgEnableUploads = true;
...
$wgLogo = "$wgScriptPath/kiwi.png";

• File includes/DefaultSettings.php:
  • Change supported upload file types (added 'pdf' and 'zip').
  • Restrict anonymous editing (edit requires user to login)

$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'pdf', 'zip' );
...
$wgGroupPermissions['*'    ]['edit']             = false;

• Add directory https://kiwi.noekeon.org/miki/upload, to store big upload files.
  • Create a fake index.html simulating listing of an empty upload directory.
• Users:

user: mip

pwd: ********

email: miki.mip@noekeon.org

real name: Mike

• Setup favicon.ico (this file), but saved as /favicon.icon (because otherwise Opera does not display it, go figure why).
  Edit file ./includes/DefaultSettings.php:

$wgFavicon                       = '/favicon.icon';

Extensions

Here the list of extensions installed on the Wiki:

• Extension SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi.
  • Version r60735 (Jan 6, 2010) / GeSHi version 1.0.8.6.
    • Old: Version r24298 (July 21, 2007) / GeSHi version 1.0.8.
  • Patched to restore old GeSHi 1.0.7 formatting and to support enclose="valid". Using a custome style in MediaWiki:Common.css.
• (2009-09-05) Extension RawFile
  • Patched to add optional param to {{#filelink}}.
  • Patched to allows using html attribute class instead of {{#fileanchor}}
• (2011-06-28) Extension Cite
  • Version r48711 for MediaWiki 15.x
• Extension JsMath.

Installation

• Version mediawiki 1.13.0.
• First go to Priorweb control panel, MySQL section, and creates new user (see $wgDBname, $wgDBuser and $wgDBpassword above)
• and go to Priorweb mailmanager to create email address (see $wgEmergencyContact)
• then ssh to daemenj@ftp.noekeon.org:

cd kiwi.noekeon.org/
wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.13/mediawiki-1.13.0.tar.gz
tar -xvzf mediawiki-1.13.0.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.13.0 miki
cd miki
chmod +w config

• Browse to https://kiwi.noekeon.org/miki/config/. Enter settings as given further.
• Move configuration file:

mv config/LocalSettings.php .
chmod 600 LocalSettings.php
rm -r config

• It's done!

Upgrade

• Version mediawiki 1.15.1
• Update procedure explained in UPGRADE:

mv miki miki-old
tar -xvzf mediawiki-1.15.1.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.15.1 miki
cp miki-old/LocalSettings.php miki
cp -r miki-old/images miki
cp -r miki-old/extensions miki
rm -r miki/config
cd miki
cp AdminSettings.sample AdminSettings.php
vi AdminSettings.php                          # Edit the file as necessary
cd maintenance
php update.php
rm -r ../miki-old
# Don't forget to remove miki-old when everything's fine

• Version mediawiki 1.22.1
• Not really an upgrade, but reinstall. Upgrade caused issue with the new short-URL, and our LocalSettings.php was too old.

mv miki oldmiki 
wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.22/mediawiki-1.22.1.tar.gz 
tar -xvzf mediawiki-1.22.1.tar.gz
mv mediawiki-1.22.1 miki
cp -iar oldmiki/images miki
cp -iar oldmiki/upload miki
cp oldmiki/kiwi.png miki

• Go to https://kiwi.noekeon.org/miki/index.php, and follow instructions, and install given LocalSettings.php.
  • Enable extension Cite, WikiEditor and SyntaxHighlight.
• Install other extensions

Backup

Some references:

• See Configuration Noekeon.org
• See Mediawiki guide to backup here
  • See also here for complete procedure

My procedure:

• Copy this file to the wiki server, and make it executable.

backup_wiki ([{{#filelink: backup_wiki}} download])

{{#fileanchor: backup_wiki}}

#! /bin/bash

# This script will create a backup of the MySQL databases used in Mediawiki wiki
# The backup is output to standard output (gzipped), so that the backup can easily be transferred
# over an ssh connection for instance
#

function usage()
{
   echo "Usage:"
   echo ""
   echo "  $0 local_settings_php"
   echo ""
   echo "  where"
   echo ""
   echo "      local_settings_php"
   echo "         is the path to the LocalSettings.php file containing the database name, password..."
   echo ""
   echo "Example:"
   echo ""
   echo "  $0 ./LocalSettings.php > ~/backup/wiki-backup.sql.gz"
   echo ""
   exit 1
}

SETTINGS_FNAME=$1

[ -n "$SETTINGS_FNAME" -a -a "$SETTINGS_FNAME" ] || usage >&2

wgDBtype=$(cat "$SETTINGS_FNAME" | grep wgDBtype | egrep -o '".*"' | sed 's/"//g')
wgDBserver=$(cat "$SETTINGS_FNAME" | grep wgDBserver | egrep -o '".*"' | sed 's/"//g')
wgDBname=$(cat "$SETTINGS_FNAME" | grep wgDBname | egrep -o '".*"' | sed 's/"//g')
wgDBuser=$(cat "$SETTINGS_FNAME" | grep wgDBuser | egrep -o '".*"' | sed 's/"//g')
wgDBpassword=$(cat "$SETTINGS_FNAME" | grep wgDBpassword | egrep -o '".*"' | sed 's/"//g')

echo "Type    : $wgDBtype" >&2
echo "Server  : $wgDBserver" >&2
echo "Name    : $wgDBname" >&2
echo "User    : $wgDBuser" >&2
# echo "Password: $wgDBpassword" >&2

/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u $wgDBuser -p$wgDBpassword -h $wgDBserver -c -e --hex-blob --add-drop-table $wgDBname | /usr/bin/nice -n 19 gzip -9

• Run this script on the machine where the backup files are to be saved (adapt the script to your needs):

~/bin/backup_noekeon ([{{#filelink: backup_noekeon}} download])

{{#fileanchor: backup_noekeon}}

#! /bin/bash

# This script will create a backup of the miki wiki database on noekeon.org
# Backup will be saved in ~/backup

BACKUPDIR=~/backup
WIKINAME=www.noekeon.org_miki
FSQLNAME=$BACKUPDIR/wiki-$WIKINAME-$(date '+%Y%m%d').sql.gz
FFILENAME=$BACKUPDIR/wiki-$WIKINAME-$(date '+%Y%m%d').tar.gz

mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR

echo "Backing up the MySQL database to '$FSQLNAME'..."
ssh noekeon '~daemenj/private/backup_wiki ~daemenj/kiwi.noekeon.org/miki/LocalSettings.php' > "$FSQLNAME"

echo "Backing up the files & extensions to '$FFILENAME'..."
ssh noekeon 'cd ~daemenj/kiwi.noekeon.org; /usr/bin/nice -n 19 tar -cz miki/' > "$FFILENAME"

To restore a MediaWiki backup on a local LAMP server (see also [3] for DB creation, and [4] for MySQL restore command):

MYSQL_HISTFILE=/dev/null  mysql --user=root -p mysql

mysql> CREATE DATABASE mikiwiki;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mikiwiki.* TO miki@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> quit

#Restore the wiki files
sudo mkdir /var/www/miki
cd /var/www/miki
sudo tar --strip 1 -xvzf ~/backup/wiki-20091111-www.noekeon.org_miki.daily.tar.gz
sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/miki
sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www/miki
#Edit /var/www/miki/LocalSettings.php to match current config
sudo vi /var/www/miki/LocalSettings.php
# ... $wgDBserver="localhost"

# Restore the SQL backup (! note that mikiwiki is not the password, but the db name !!!):
gunzip < wiki-20091111-www.noekeon.org_miki.daily.sql.gz | mysql -u miki -p mikiwiki
# ... enter password for user miki

To Do

• Upgrade jsMath to MathJax (see also [5]) (this requires MediaWiki 1.19 or higher)