Install the Media Wiki Release

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• Media Wiki Installation

Overview

Go to https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/ and download the latest patch corresponding to the selected LTS release.

Linux

cd /tmp
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.35/mediawiki-1.35.0.tar.gz

As root:

su -
cd /var/www
gunzip < /tmp/mediawiki-1.35.0.tar.gz | tar xfv -
rm /tmp/mediawiki-1.35.0.tar.gz

Set the correct ownership:

cd /var/www
chown -R apache:apache mediawiki-1.35.0

Link the newly created Media Wiki directory under a name representative to the web server external DNS name:

cd /var/www
ln -s ./mediawiki-1.35.0 wiki.novaordis.com
chown apache:apache ./wiki.novaordis.com

SELinux Configuration

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SELinux

Find out if SELinux is enabled:

How to find out whether SELinux is enabled

If yes, read the reference above and do what it says, things change from time to time.

This is what worked last time. As root:

restorecon -FR /var/www/mediawiki-1.35.0/

Check the result:

ls -lZ /var/www/

The MediaWiki directories should have the "system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0" context:

drwxr-xr-x. apache apache system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 mediawiki-1.26.2
lrwxrwxrwx. root   root   system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 wiki.novaordis.com -> mediawiki-1.26.2

chcon -t httpd_sys_script_exec_t includes/GlobalFunctions.php

Allow image upload

cd /var/www/mediawiki-1.35.0
chcon -R -t httpd_user_rw_content_t ./images

Mac

As the regular, non-root user that performed the httpd installation:

cd /tmp
wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.39/mediawiki-1.39.6.tar.gz
cd /opt/brew/var/www
tar xfvz /tmp/mediawiki-1.39.6.tar.gz
rm /tmp/mediawiki-1.39.6.tar.gz

Link the newly created Media Wiki directory under a name representative to the local web server name:

cd /opt/brew/var/www
ln -s ./mediawiki-1.39.6 nokb.local