Configuration Miki's Kiwi Wiki on Noekeon.org

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Reference

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

Wiki Configuration

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
$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;
user: mip
pwd: ********
email: miki.mip@noekeon.org
real name: Mike
  • Setup favicon.ico (this file)

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}}

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
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

Backup

Some references:

My procedure:

  • Copy this file to the wiki server, and make it executable.
  • Run this script on the machine where the backup files are to be saved (adapt the script to your needs):

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

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