My guess is that it's not the MediaWiki install that's the problem it's the dependencies.
On Ubuntu for example if you install apache first then php, it won't enable mod_php and may not even install it. This causes endless problems with people who don't have a lot of experience installing this kind of software on Linux. MediaWiki does have a installation requirements page that gives, for example a generic install line for a fresh ubuntu installation that would install php and all of the dependencies properly but if the system is already setup and installed then it may not do it properly. But of course, MediaWiki's page on doing this does NOT discuss all of the dependencies of the MediaWiki dependencies they are telling you to install so it's pretty lame - typical of UNIX man pages, it's only useful to someone who already knows what's in the man page. LOL. If Keith is trying to install MediaWiki on a system that already has MoinMoin on it, and run both of them in parallel on the same system that may require some advanced configuration. Keith, here is a soup-to-nuts install instruction set for you. It only took me 1.5 hours to make up, it's easy. Note that the actual MediaWiki install only took about 15 minutes the rest was the server setup. It assumes a fresh Ubuntu 20 virtual image install on Amazon Web Services. I'll leave the image up and running for a week and if you want to SSH into it then send me a userID and password you want to use and I'll setup a shell account you can use to login and look at the files and such. The wiki is here: https://media.portlandia-servers.com/w/index.php/Main_Page and it's online now. Instructions: Setup a free account on AWS https://aws.amazon.com/console/ Login to AWS portal as root user and go to EC2 Dashboard Click Instances Click dropdown on Launch Instances and Launch Instance Name it "MediaWiki Test Server" under Quickstart click Ubuntu Leave it at Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS free tier eligible Leave Architecture at 64 bit x86 Under Instance type leave it at t2.micro free tier eligible Under key pair create a new key pair named "TESTMasterKeyPair" Download it. Under Firewall leave at Create security group and tick allow SSH and allow https and http Select 30GB of standard (mag media) root volume NOT encrypted) storage click Launch Instance Click back on EC2, Instances Click on the Instance ID Copy the Public IPv4 DNS name in this case ec2-34-217-63-231.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com Optionally CNAME it your DNS provider to some name. Download private key file you created earlier On windows, Browse to c:\program files\putty and run puttygen Click Load on existing private key Click Save and save it as the ppk file do not add a passphrase In Putty click Connection -> SSH -> Auth -> Credentials and load the ppk file Use putty to initially ssh in: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html From Linux, ssh -i " TESTMasterKeyPair.pem" ubu...@ec2-34-217-63-231.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com After SSHing into the system with ID of ubuntu, sudo -s adduser tedm, password whateveryouwant add tedm into admin group, vi /etc/group go to /etc/ssh and modify sshd_config to have a YES in PasswordAuthentication reboot Now you can SSH in via a real SSH client like Teraterm normally instead of a stripped down emulator like putty Give it a minute or to to finish rebooting then Ssh into ec2-34-217-63-231.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com In the new server it's hostname is tedm@ip-172-31-20-73:~$ cat /etc/hostname ip-172-31-20-73 tedm@ip-172-31-20-73:~$ Optionally, set domain name to what you want. I'll use media.portlandia-servers.com for fun sudo -s change hostname to what you want vi /etc/hostname root@ip-172-31-20-73:/home/tedm# cat /etc/hostname media root@ip-172-31-20-73:/home/tedm# then set your hostname in /etc/hosts root@ip-172-31-20-73:/home/tedm# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 media.portlandia-servers.com media 127.0.0.1 localhost # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback apt update apt dist-upgrade ok on newer kernel reboot ssh into media.portlandia-servers.com sudo -s apt install php this installs php 8.1 and apache and mod-php8.1 apt install php-mysql apt install mysql-server this puts in mysql 8 client and server From the line out of the mediaserver wiki install instructions here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirements (strike the mariadb-server) apt-get install php php-apcu php-intl php-mbstring php-xml php-mysql php-calendar apache2 Now setup mysql: mysql_secure_installation No on validate password when it goes into the loop asking for the password then erroring it, in another ssh session pkill -f mysql_secure_installation this leaves mysql open. As sudo -s in the first session root@media:/home/tedm# mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 10 Server version: 8.0.32-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password by 'whateverpasswordyouwant'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec) mysql> flush privileges; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) mysql> exit Bye root@media:/home/tedm# test it root@media:/home/tedm# mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 11 Server version: 8.0.32-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> exit Bye root@media:/home/tedm# now run the setup script mysql_secure_installation root@media:/home/tedm# mysql_secure_installation Securing the MySQL server deployment. Enter password for user root: VALIDATE PASSWORD COMPONENT can be used to test passwords and improve security. It checks the strength of password and allows the users to set only those passwords which are secure enough. Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD component? Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No: N Using existing password for root. Change the password for root ? ((Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : N ... skipping. By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a production environment. Remove anonymous users? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y Success. Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network. Disallow root login remotely? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y Success. By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed before moving into a production environment. Remove test database and access to it? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y - Dropping test database... Success. - Removing privileges on test database... Success. Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far will take effect immediately. Reload privilege tables now? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y Success. All done! root@media:/home/tedm# apt install mailutils select "internet site" apt install make apt install certbot apt install python3-certbot-apache a2enmod ssl cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled ln -s ../sites-available/default-ssl.conf default-ssl.conf systemctl restart apache2 certbot root@media:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# certbot Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log Enter email address (used for urgent renewal and security notices) (Enter 'c' to cancel): t...@portlandia-it.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please read the Terms of Service at https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.3-September-21-2022.pdf. You must agree in order to register with the ACME server. Do you agree? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (Y)es/(N)o: Y - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Would you be willing, once your first certificate is successfully issued, to share your email address with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a founding partner of the Let's Encrypt project and the non-profit organization that develops Certbot? We'd like to send you email about our work encrypting the web, EFF news, campaigns, and ways to support digital freedom. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (Y)es/(N)o: Y Account registered. Please enter the domain name(s) you would like on your certificate (comma and/or space separated) (Enter 'c' to cancel): media.portlandia-servers.com Requesting a certificate for media.portlandia-servers.com Successfully received certificate. Certificate is saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/media.portlandia-servers.com/fullchain.pem Key is saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/media.portlandia-servers.com/privkey.pem This certificate expires on 2023-07-20. These files will be updated when the certificate renews. Certbot has set up a scheduled task to automatically renew this certificate in the background. Deploying certificate Successfully deployed certificate for media.portlandia-servers.com to /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default-le-ssl.conf Congratulations! You have successfully enabled HTTPS on https://media.portlandia-servers.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If you like Certbot, please consider supporting our work by: * Donating to ISRG / Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/donate * Donating to EFF: https://eff.org/donate-le - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - root@media:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# hit https://media.portlandia-servers.com from a web browser and make sure it's working apt update apt dist-upgrade final reboot and make sure you can ssh into it and hit it with the webbrowser sudo -s root@media:~# cd root@media:~# wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.3.tar.gz gunzip mediawiki-1.39.3.tar.gz cd /var/www/html tar xf /root/mediawiki-1.39.3.tar mv mediawiki-1.39.3 w Open a web browser to https://media.portlandia-servers.com/w/ Click set up the wiki Select language click continue It will run some checks and say OK to continue click continue Leave database prefix blank and type in the mysql root password you used earlier click continue Click continue Name of wiki "Test Wiki" username "tedm" password usual stuff click I'm bored just install the wiki Click continue Click continue again Download and copy LocalSettings.php to /var/www/html/w Click Enter your Wiki Done. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Russell Senior Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2023 9:01 PM To: plug@pdxlinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] MediaWiki configuration On 4/20/23 19:25, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Any recent MediaWiki deployers on the list? For many years, [...] IF > YOU HAVE SET UP MEDIAWIKI RECENTLY, CAN YOU POINT ME AT GOOD /RECENT/ > TUTORIALS? I haven't, and have no experience with MediaWiki (and still nominally maintain a teetering MoinMoin wiki), but have you looked at this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki -- Russell Senior russ...@pdxlinux.org
